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09-May-2025

Franchising Brand Stories - 1st Anniversary

Franchising Brand Stories™, the UK's leading live stream platform for franchise founder interviews, proudly celebrates its first anniversary, having featured 36 bfa franchise brands in its debut year. Designed to inspire and inform, the show has garnered over 70,000 combined views across social platforms, sparking meaningful conversations in the franchising world.

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09-May-2025

True Partners with German Doner Kebab (GDK) and Hero Brands to Support Continued UK and International Growth

Leading investment and innovation firm True is delighted to announce its strategic investment in GDK, the Glasgow-headquartered owner of the GDK brand in the UK and internationally. True will support GDK’s continued rollout as the leading Middle Eastern QSR brand in the UK and accelerate growth across existing and new markets globally.

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09-May-2025

Smash-burger brand SoBe Burger opens 15th franchise in Norwich

SoBe Burgers, the Miami-style smash-burger brand, is launching their 15th franchise in Norwich this week. Following great success as a ‘delivery only’ brand in the city, SoBe Burger has partnered with first time franchisee Mr Choudhary to bring a physical site to 46 London St, the site will offer dine-in, takeaway and delivery.

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08-May-2025

Soccer Shooters signs up second franchisee

Soccer Shooters is delighted to have opened their second franchise territory.  Ahmed Chami is franchisee for Bristol East. Ahmed comes from a background in talent acquisition. However, like in many industries, a period of uncertainty led Ahmed to start looking at other opportunities.  He is now delighted to be using skills he has acquired in talent acquisition alongside his passion for football to be running his own soccer coaching franchise.

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08-May-2025

National Franchise Week and World Franchise Day: Two Groundbreaking Initiatives to Celebrate and Educate Franchising's Impact in the UK

The BFA (British Franchise Association) are hosting two major initiatives in June 2025 to raise the awareness of UK franchising. World Franchise Day on the 11th June will be celebrated by National Franchise Associations across the globe to raise the awareness of franchising as a successful business model. A week later (16th - 20th June) the BFA will celebrate National Franchise Week with a focus on the five pillars of wellbeing.

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08-May-2025

WHAT I WOULD DO AS A FRANCHISEE

My name is Amrit Dhaliwal. I'm the CEO and founder of Walfinch. And today I'm going to talk about how I would buy a franchise if I was buying a franchise. I've been a franchisee and now I'm a franchisor. And so if I was buying a franchise in any space, I would do a couple of different things. I would make sure that I have either spoken to five different companies, at very least within that one sector that I'm looking at, whether that's home care, grass care, restaurants, anything.

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08-May-2025

Local Free Exercise Sessions Spurred by Woman's "Miracle" Recovery

 Home care provider Walfinch Newcastle is launching free, local exercise and activity sessions, partly inspired by Betty Dunn, from North Shields. Basic exercise took Betty, 90, from being bedridden to walking around her home and making her own meals, in just two weeks.

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08-May-2025

Gong cha appoints Justus Haller as General Manager, Growth Markets

Gong cha, one of the world’s fastest-growing global tea brands, is pleased to announce the appointment of Justus Haller as its new General Manager, Growth Markets, effective May 2025.

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07-May-2025

MANCHESTER CONFERENCE PROVIDES OPPORTUNITY TO CELEBRATE FRANCHISEE SUCCESS

Driver Hire’s 2025 annual conference - held in the splendid surroundings of the Hilton Hotel, Deansgate, Manchester - was a perfect opportunity to mark the achievements of its top-performing and long-standing franchisees

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07-May-2025

Callum Ellis, NEW Franchise Recruitment Manager at Cafe2U

“I Help People Quit the 9–5 and Build Coffee Empires on Wheels – Are You Next?”

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