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The British Franchise Association (bfa) has begun the search for the UK’s best franchise businesses with the launch of the 2016 bfa HSBC Franchisor of the Year awards. Now in their 27th year, the awards are the highest honours available to any franchised business and recognise franchisors both established and new for their standards, commitment to ethics and proven positive impact on their franchisees’ businesses.
The Trophy Pet Food franchise has continued its national growth with the announcement that 2 new franchisees have joined the Trophy team.
With well over 500,000 Brits now employed in franchising across the UK1 and industry turnover amounting to £13.7 billion2, there has never been a better time to adopt one of the UK’s most successful business models. Offering people an opportunity to meet with hundreds of franchise brands, The National Franchise Exhibition and the British and International Franchise Exhibition are the essential stepping-stones to turn ambition into a reality.
Leading pizza franchise, Papa John’s, has announced it is now new in Crewe! The Crewe store takes the number of Papa John’s which opened last month into ‘double digits’ and the number of UK outlets now to well over 300.
In line with their strategy of organic growth, parent company of leading high street names Ovenclean and ChipsAway, Franchise Brands, is celebrating record results from a fantastic 2015!
TaxAssist Accountants has reached another major milestone for the brand as the national accountancy network reached a record breaking 7,600 qualified leads delivered to its network in 2015.
Signs Express has had an exciting start to the New Year! In October 2015, Lee Eaton, owner of Signs Express (Manchester) won the coveted BFA Franchisee of the Year award, which has sparked the beginning of their increasing success for 2016.
Signs Express, the UK and Ireland’s largest network of franchised sign production centres supported by its central headquarters in Norwich, has strengthened its Board with the appointment of Mark Harvey as non-executive Marketing Director and Mark Poole as non-executive IT Director.
etyres has marked its milestone Millionth customer with news that she was getting her brand new tyres for free!
Accountancy Age has recently published its Financial Power List 2016 with CEO of The TaxAssist Group Karl Sandall being recognised as the 47th most powerful figure in the finance and accountancy world, up three places from 2015.
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