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New Sketchers Store Set To Open

Sketchers is opening a new store in Fairview Heights, Illinois. Fairview Heights in Illinois is about to get a new Sketchers store. It is set to open its doors in the next few weeks. Currently no opening date has been set, but the owners have said that the plan is to open during the summer, which is a critical time for the shoe brand. The new 70,00 sq ft store will be [...]

Century 21 Takes Home Top Award

Century 21 Cobham and Esher have been named the best estate agent in town at the British Property Awards.   Leading UK estate agency franchise, Century 21, has enjoyed huge success at the British Property Awards. One of its independently owned franchises, Cobham and Esher has taken home the award for its local area, having been recognised as demonstrating the [...]

Radfield Home Care Launch Discover Days

Potential franchisees will have the opportunity to learn about joining Radfield Home Care by attending a Discovery Day. As one of the UK’s top franchisees, Radfield Home Care is offering budding entrepreneurs the chance to discover more about its rewarding and ethical franchise opportunities by attending one of its Franchise Discover Day events. The purpose of the [...]

Little Gym Is Now Offering Power Rangers Parties

Little Gym and Power Rangers team up to create one-of-a-kind birthday parties for children. Children across the world can now enjoy celebrating their birthdays with the Super Ninja Steel team. A new partnership between Little Gym and Power Rangers sees the two collaborate to create a special kind of party for children who are fans of the Power Rangers empire. The new [...]

Barking Mad Dog Care Franchisee of the Year Named

Barking Mad Dog Care has crowned Fife and Kinross-based John Elaine their franchisee of the year. The results are in from this year’s Barking Mad Day Care award ceremony, and John and Elaine Warburton in Fife and Kinross have been crowned the franchisors of the year. The pair celebrated their success at the annual conference, now in its 15th year. Held at Low Wood Bay [...]

Two major promotions at Dent Wizard

Addison Thomas and Doug Grill step up to the roles of COO and Regional Vice President at Dent Wizard.   Dent Wizard International has seen several significant changes to its leadership team in recent weeks. Not only has Mike Black stepped into the shoes of Dent Wizard’s CEO, more recently Addison Thomas has been appointed to fill Black’s previous position of COO [...]

Century 21 Signs Five New Franchisees

Five new franchisees have joined the Century 21 group since the start of the year, setting the pace for 2018 growth. Estate agency group, Century 21, is already having a great 2018. Since the start of the year, five new franchisees have joined the UK division of the group, making the first quarter of the year particularly successful. The new franchisees have taken [...]

Radfield Home Care Scores a Hat-Trick

Radfield Home Care in Havering has just been shortlisted for an award – making it a hat-trick for the care providing franchise. Despite only launching in July last year, Radfield Home Care in Havering has already been put forward for three awards. In fact, it has already won two of the awards and has been shortlisted for three separate awards at a third event. The [...]

Catching up with Nicholas Humphreys Sheffield

Nicholas Humphreys Sheffield started trading in August 2017. We catch up to see how they are doing. Since it opened its doors in August last year, Nicholas Humphreys Sheffield has enjoyed great success. We spoke to the owner, Nicholas Lambrou to find out how his first few months of being a business owner have been. Speaking openly, we talked in depth about this vision [...]

FiltaFry joins Point Franchise

FiltaFry is the latest franchise to join our growing network – and it’s great to have the unique business on board Point Franchise has just welcomed FiltaFry to its worldwide network of thriving franchises – and we couldn’t be more pleased. The global leader in fryer management, FiltaFry helps restaurants with industrial fryers to stay at the top of their game with a [...]

Nicholas Humphreys Announces Its Award Winners

Eight of Nicholas Humphreys’ franchises have scooped awards for their tremendous performance in 2017. Each year, Nicholas Humphreys holds an awards ceremony to recognise the achievements of its many offices across the country, and the results are in. Eight of its franchises have taken home commendations for outstanding levels of income and their own initiatives. The [...]

Nicholas Humphreys in Portsmouth Announces Huge Success

Just three months after opening its doors, the Nicholas Humphreys Portsmouth franchise has already enjoyed great success, winning an award and smashing targets. Nicholas Humphreys Portsmouth opened its doors towards the end of last year, and it has already seen promising performance results. In just the first month, it made £4,333.63, which set the pace for the [...]

Activ Net Marketing joins Point Franchise

Point Franchise has proudly listed Activ Net, a growing digital marketing franchise. Anyone wanting to own their own business but still enjoy the comforts of working from home will welcome the news that Activ Net has joined Point Franchise. The group gives promising business owners the chance to work when they want and earn a healthy profit by offering digital [...]

New Cash Generator opens in Edinburgh

Dalry Road in Edinburgh is about to get a new Cash Generator as an experienced entrepreneur opens a new store. Edinburgh will soon get a brand-new Cash Generator store as a budding entrepreneur has just opened another store on Dalry Road. This is the second store that the owner, Ghulam Ahmed has opened in the area alongside his other store in Kirkaldy. Customers can [...]

BP Announces New Chairman

BP has announced its appointment of Helge Lund, or ‘Mr Oil’, as its new chairman. Former Statoil boss, Helge Lund, is soon to become BP’s new chairman. He will take over from Carl-Henric Svanberg, who announced his plans to retire last autumn. Lund is a big name in the oil industry. He led the team at Statoil, Norway’s national oil company, for 10 years. He left in [...]

Best Western Tries New Hotel Concept

Best Western International Inc. is trying out a new-build hotel in north Phoenix. In a bid to attract more customers to its hotels, Best Western International Inc. is launching a new concept in the Happy Valley area of Phoenix. This new hotel will be built for purpose, which is the first time Best Western has designed its own property. It will also be home to two of [...]

Papa John’s Releases Cheeseburger Pizza

Papa John’s customers can now enjoy tucking into cheeseburger pizzas at its outlets across the world. As part of its missions to bring more flavours to its pizza lovers around the world, Papa John’s has just released a cheeseburger topping. Named the BBQ Cheeseburger Pizza, it is topped with BBQ tomato sauce, cheese, spicy beef, sliced pickles, tomatoes and onions. It [...]

Anytime Fitness Offers Free Workouts

Residents of Kamloops in British Columbia can look forward to free workouts throughout May, hosted by Anytime Fitness. As part of its mission to raise the profile of exercise in everyone’s estimations, Anytime Fitness has decided to hold free workouts throughout May. These workouts will be for local residents of Kamloops in British Columbia, Canada. Held at Riverside [...]

Boots Opticians Scoops Award

Boots Opticians in Truro won a national award for its success in the optician industry. Each year, the Optician Awards recognise the achievements of the best optician practices in the country. Awarding 18 winners in total, it is one of the most sought-after prizes for optician businesses, and this year, Boots Opticians in Truro has been awarded the Multiple Practice [...]

Subway Sponsors Charity Race in Southampton

Together with Heart Research UK, Subway held a fun run at the weekend to raise money for projects that promote heart health in the UK. After the great success of previous years, Subway has once again held a fun run in Southampton on 29th April to raise money for Heart Research UK and its own Healthy Heart grant scheme. Named the Subway Helping Hearts Family 5K, the [...]

Build-A-Bear now sells Avengers heroes

Build-A-Bear customers can get their hands on fluffy friends from the Marvel saga. The Build-A-Bear workshop has welcomed three new arrivals to its bespoke teddy bear offering. Three heroes from the Marvel empire have joined the line up of cuddly toys. Customers can now choose to get an Iron Spider, Iron Man or Teen Groot from Avengers: Infinity War, but in a cuddly, [...]

Record Year for Belvoir

Belvoir has announced that the last financial year was one that brought huge success as its revenue jumped up to a record level. Last year was record breaking for lettings group, Belvoir. It has recently confirmed that its revenue reached a record high at £11.2million for 2017 (up until December). That’s up from £9.9million on 2016. Its pre-tax profits have [...]

Angela’s Swim School poised to win award

Angela’s Swim School is in the running to take home a Gravesham Business Award A Kent-based swimming school has been nominated for a Gravesham Business Award – a commendation that recognises the success of local businesses. Having been nominated, Angela’s Swim School will be judged by Keith Mason, Trevor Adams and Karen Du Rocher – three local successful business [...]

Driver Hire makes the finals, again

Driver Hire is once again a finalist for the HSBC Franchisor of the Year awards. Driver Hire joins five other finalists in the HSBC Franchisor of the Year awards. It is a notable commendation that recognises businesses that follow robust best practice guidelines and prove themselves to be successful through innovation, a strong brand and excellent customer service. In [...]

Dunkin' Donuts names its new Vice President

Stephanie Meltzer-Paul will join the company as Vice President for Digital and Loyalty Marketing in May 2018. Following 20 years of experience in customer loyalty and digital marketing, Stephanie Meltzer-Paul has been appointed Vice President, Digital and Loyalty Marketing of Dunkin' Donuts U.S. where she will lead further development of the brand's DD Perks loyalty [...]

FASTSIGNS partners with Mobile Training Platform 1HUDDLE

The partnership adds science-backed quick-burst training games to better support franchisees Leading sign, graphics and visual communications franchise, FASTSIGNS International Inc. has announced a worldwide partnership with workforce training platform 1HUDDLE, which converts training content into quick-burst training games that accelerate workforce productivity. Known [...]

Dunkin’ Donut ice-cream at Baskin-Robbins

Baskin-Robbins has released a new flavour of ice cream, inspired by Dunkin’ Donuts. As two iconic US brands, it is little surprise that Baskin-Robbins and Dunkin’ Donuts love to collaborate. In fact, Baskin-Robbins sits under the Dunkin’ group brand, making partnerships particular easy. The latest creation to have come from a Dunkin’ Donuts and Baskin Robbins [...]

Auntie Anne’s Launches Its Own Clothing Line

To celebrate its 30th birthday, Auntie Anne’s is releasing a range of clothes and accessories, decorated with pretzels. When you think of pretzels, the last thing that comes to mind is t-shirts, bags and shoes, but that’s exactly where leading pretzel retailer, Auntie Anne’s, is heading with its latest venture. To mark its 30th birthday, which took place on April 216, [...]

Fireaway Opens another London Restaurant

Pizza franchise, Fireaway, opens another restaurant in Thornton Heath, Croydon. Fireaway may be less than three years old, but it is already putting down strong routes in the UK capital. It is soon to open its third restaurant in South London, in Thornton Heath, Croydon. It will join its Streatham and Sutton outlets, serving made-to-order, authentic pizza. This new [...]

Agency Express Scoops an ESTAS Award

Leading estate agent board specialist, Agency Express, wins Best Supplier award at the ESTAS. Each year, the ESTAS (Estate Agent of the Year Awards) celebrate the best in estate agency practice around the UK. It recognises the best estate agencies, letting agencies, brokers, conveyances, homebuilders and suppliers that make up the UK property market. What’s unique [...]