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Tubz Vending is the newest addition to Point Franchise

Tubz Vending’s unique franchise has recently joined Point Franchise – but what’s the company all about? Point Franchise is thrilled to welcome Tubz Vending to its huge network of international and UK franchises. The unique vending tower company operates over 17,000 vending towers across the UK, Ireland and Europe through its franchisees and Point Franchise is pleased that the innovative [...]

Eddie Rocket’s named the best burger in Ireland

Eddie Rocket’s, which also operates in its smaller locations as Rocket’s, has been crowned the best burger in Ireland. In a nationwide poll that was voted in by almost 17,000 Irish burger lovers, Eddie Rocket’s has emerged victorious with the title of the tastiest burger in the country. Ireland’s leading burger franchise beat more than 500 food outlets, including pricier, gourmet [...]

Seven new locations announced for Wrap It Up!

QSR wrap franchise, Wrap It Up! announces more outlets for the fast growing chain. For some franchises the odd new location announcement is normal. We’re not your ordinary brand however, and Wrap It Up! are announcing seven in Q3 2018 alone! We have a restaurant opening in the St Anns Shopping Centre, Harrow and a restaurant opening in one of the UK’s popular shopping locations [...]

Jo Jingles’ partner nursery named as ‘inspirational’

Toybox Nursery, which receives regular visits from Jo Jingles, has been named as ‘inspirational’ by Ofsted. A nursery that receives regular visits from music specialist franchise Jo Jingles has received an ‘outstanding’ rating in its most recent Ofsted inspection. Toybox Nursery in Wakefield was also called ‘inspirational’ by inspectors for its commitment to offering children an [...]

Bella Italia benefits from £30m investment

Bella Italia’s parent company invests additional £30m to strengthen its businesses. Bella Italia’s parent group, Casual Dining Group, has announced that is has secured a £30m investment for its three brands to ensure they’re able to continue growing and prospering. The cash injection is set to continue the Italian dining franchise’s success, by allowing further growth [...]

Wrap It Up! serves up sandwiches to colleges in London

Catering for students and staff across 3 college campuses Wrap It Up! will soon be providing filling wraps, inspired by global street food across all three New City College campuses. This is an exciting new business model for Wrap It Up! with huge growth potential. The flexibility required to operate in such different trading environments displays the great amount of room that [...]

Bagel Corner celebrates fourth national convention

Bagel Corner brought its franchisees together to talk business and participate in plenty of fun activities. Bagel Corner hosted a productive and enjoyable conference for its franchisees in sunny Marrakech, Morocco. More than two thirds of the bagel franchise’s network came together, as well as suppliers and those in the process of opening their own branch, for its annual network [...]

Wrap It Up! Opening new restaurant in intu Lakeside

Sandwhich franchise, Wrap It Up! announces a new restaurant in intu Lakeside One of the UK’s most well-known shopping centres, intu Lakeside, is getting its own Wrap It Up! restaurant; this location is a first for the Wrap It Up! business as we’re now discovering how well our brand can fit in the shopping centre context. With a huge footfall of over 500,000 visitors per week on [...]

Driver Hire scoops prestigious award

Driver Hire made the finals of the BFA HSBC Franchise Awards for the 12th time and didn’t leave empty handed. Driver recruitment franchise Driver Hire has been recognised once again for its fantastic business model at the 2018 BFA HSBC Franchise Awards. It took home the bronze award in the ‘Franchisor of the Year’ category. This isn’t the first time Driver Hire has been recognised [...]

Fireaway brings a taste of Italy to Point Franchise

Fireaway is the latest addition to Point Franchise’s network – let’s find out more. Point Franchise is delighted to welcome Fireaway to its extensive network of global franchises. The newly established business already has three branches across London, despite having only been open for 17 months, and we’re delighted to welcome the ambitious company to our network. The innovative [...]

2PS launches new ‘Sales Intelligence’ service

2PS has developed a smarter way for its partners to approach potential new customers.Management consultancy franchise 2PS has launched its new ‘Sales Intelligence’ service for its network of professionals. The new adverts, which will appear on 2PS members’ ‘Job Opportunities’ section of their profile, will highlight companies to franchisees and staff that could potentially [...]

Premier Sport hosts floorball cup

Premier Sport hosted the areas ‘largest ever’ floorball cup for schoolchildren in Farnham, Surrey. Activity and sport franchise Premier Sport has hosted Surrey’s ‘largest ever’ floorball cup for 11 teams of enthusiastic school children. The sport, which is similar to hockey, is a popular choice for children as it’s much easier to pick up and the tournament was a fantastic chance [...]

Riverford Organic Farmers gives employees a slice of the profits

Riverford Organic Farmers is switching to employee-ownership, meaning employees are more involved in the business. Riverford Organic Farmers has made the ambitious switch to employee-ownership (EO), with a huge 74% of the organic produce delivery franchise now being owned by its employees. The company delivers around 47,000 boxes every single week to homes across the country, from [...]

Post & Packing opens its doors in Chatham

Post & Packing has opened its newest branch in Chatham, Kent to offer easy postal services to the community. Independent postal franchise Post & Packing has been celebrating the opening of its newest branch. The outlet, which is situated on Chatham High Street, opened its doors on the 11th of July and will bring its range of Royal Mail and independent courier and postal [...]

TruGreen Gloucestershire reaches 100 customers in record time

TruGreen Gloucestershire surpasses expectations by helping 100 customers in just four months of trading. TruGreen Gloucestershire has been celebrating its early success. After just four months of business, owner Mike Simmonds was thrilled to announced he’d reached the milestone of 100 satisfied customers. By his own admission, Simmonds wasn’t expecting to see numbers like that [...]

Baskin Robbins hands out free treats

Baskin Robbins celebrates National Ice Cream Month with free goodies for its customers. Ice cream franchise Baskin Robbins has been celebrating its favourite month of the year, National Ice Cream Month. The franchise, which has over 7,500 locations in the US, is rolling out the celebrations in its 2,500 nationwide locations, with plenty of exciting offers to excite taste buds [...]

Radfield Home Care sees unprecedented growth

Radfield Home Care’s Liverpool North franchise has grown a massive 15% faster than expected since opening six months ago. Radfield Home Care has been celebrating yet another one of its franchisees’ success stories. After just 6 months of trading, Liverpool North franchisee Dave Bellis is gaining unstoppable momentum.He’s 15% ahead of his already ambitious projections for the [...]

ChipsAway employee heads to World Championships

Student and ChipsAway employee reaches final of international WorldSkills Championship. A talented student from Gateshead College has buffed and primed his way into the finals of the prestigious tradespeople’s competition, the WorldSkills Championships. 20-year-old Callum Green will be occupying one of the spots on the UK’s auto refinishing team when it heads to Kazan, Russia [...]

Papa John’s brings a slice of America to Sunderland

Papa John’s celebrates the opening of its new branch in Sunderland, bringing its UK store total to over 350. Takeaway franchise Papa John’s has opened its doors in the city of Sunderland following months of anticipation. Lots of renovation work was needed before the Fulwell site was ready, having previously been home to a fish and chip shop, but it’s finally serving its delicious [...]

Merry Maids’ recognise those who shine the brightest

Merry Maids’ North Star Awards celebrates the brightest and best franchisees across the country. Merry Maids’ has been recognising the leading lights in its business that have made the cleaning franchise successful over the last year. At its annual Summer Regional Ceremony in June, Merry Maids announced the winners of its North Star Awards. They were set up to reward franchisees [...]

Rosemary hosts its Big Summer Summit

Rosemary hosted its Big Summer Summit for over 100 franchisees to come together and talk business.Rosemary Bookkeeping has hosted its annual ‘Big Summer Summit’, an event which gives its network of franchise partners the chance to come together and share their experiences of running their own franchise. More than 100 individuals from franchises across the country attended, [...]

Minster Cleaning gets competitive at activity day

Minster Cleaning has been saying thanks to its hardest working franchisees by treating them to an activity day. Minster Cleaning has been celebrating the efforts of its top team members with a day of fun activities. Top franchisees from across the country and members of the head office team were invited along to Adventure Sports in Warwickshire for a “Thank You Day”, as a way of [...]

FiltaFry Franchisee buys second territory in six months

FiltaFry’s Lee Morton has only been in business for six months but now manages two territories. Fryer management franchise FiltaFry has been celebrating the rapid expansion of franchisee Lee Morton, after his fantastic start to business. Despite having purchased his Cardiff territory just six months ago, Lee’s ambitious business plan means that he’s already snapped up another [...]

The Massage Company opens new £500,000 centre

The Massage Company expands its UK presence with second site in Tunbridge Wells. The Massage Company has announced plans for its second centre in the UK, which is set to open in September 2018. The massage franchise, which offers massages including Swedish, Deep Tissue, Sports and Maternity, has invested an impressive £500,000 into the new centre. It will have 14 rooms, including [...]

Century 21 opens its doors in Ipswich

Century 21 celebrates the opening of its Ipswich branch, the 7th branch to open in 2018 alone. Estate agent franchise Century 21 continues its fantastic run in 2018 by celebrating the opening of a brand-new location in Ipswich. At the head of things will be Matt Purnell and Steve Catton who are excited to be taking on this new challenge. Matt’s experience as a mortgage broker, [...]

TruGreen’s parent brand offer market leading online service

TruGreen’s parent company, ServiceMaster, is trialling online booking for its sister brands. The company behind TruGreen Professional Lawncare is trialling online booking services for its brands. ServiceMaster Group has begun trialling e-commerce, something that is rarely used within the franchising world, with TruGreen’s sister brand ServiceMaster Clean. The group’s introduction [...]

OSCAR Pet Foods leads the way to better pet care

OSCAR Pet Foods is celebrating the launch of its sister company, Leading the Way Pet Care. The UK’s largest pet food home-delivery franchise, OSCAR Pet Foods, is using its expert knowledge and love of pets to launch a brand-new pet-care service. After spotting a gap in the market for a service that helps pet owners manage their pets’ day-to-day needs and routines, OSCAR decided [...]

Countrywide Ground Maintenance’s parent group look to grow UK...

Countrywide Ground Maintenance’s brand group seeks out new opportunities for UK expansion and ways to strengthen the business. The owner of the ground maintenance franchise has recently invested significantly in the refurbishment of its relocated corporate head office in Banbury, Oxfordshire. It’s also expanded and renovated its Manchester offices, after it welcomed two new brands [...]

Mr Electric’s parent company launches VetFran

Mr Electric’s parent company launches service to help military veterans into franchising. To celebrate Armed Forces Day 2018, which was held on the 30th of June, Mr Electric’s parent company Dwyer Group has launched its VetFran service in the UK. The franchising programme is aimed at those who have served in the armed forces, to give them a new career once they leave the military [...]

AireServ’s parent company commits to UK despite Brexit

AireServ’s parent company, Dwyer Group, has pledged to strengthen its presence in UK by investing despite Brexit uncertainty. Dwyer Group, who is the parent company of franchises including AireServ (emergency heating, cooling and refrigeration service providers) is committing to the UK. Dwyer Group, which is one of the world’s largest parent companies of home service brands, has [...]