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24-Hour Anytime Fitness To Open Soon In Christchurch Town...

The international fitness chain franchise, Anytime Fitness has been given the green light for a 24-hour gym in Christchurch Town Centre. The approval of a 24-hour Anytime Fitness club in Christchurch town centre has not come without controversy. Approved by Christchurch Borough Council’s planning officers, the international fitness chain franchise’s application was met [...]

Ovenu Franchisee Celebrates 10th Year Anniversary By...

In 10 years Ovenu’s franchisee has secured 6,500 oven valets and the numbers are on the rise. Ovenu franchisee for Solihull, Elliott Robinson celebrates10 years with the professional domestic oven cleaning specialists and 6,500 oven valets for customers under his belt. To mark the anniversary, Robinson will be donating a free oven valet to one of his valued and loyal [...]

Century 21 John Anthony Realtors Welcomes 2018 With...

With a recent franchise renewal, CENTURY 21 John Anthony, REALTORS is in business for the long haul. CENTURY 21 franchisee John Anthony, REALTORS announced its franchise affiliation renewal with the iconic CENTURY 21 brand. This marks a 45th CENTURY 21 for John Anthony, REALTORS who continues to pave the way as ambassadors of the iconic brand, with affiliated agents [...]

Subway Kicks Off 2018 With ‘Sub Saver’

Subway, one of the fastest-growing franchises in the world, kicks off the new year with the launch of its ‘Sub Saver’ offer. Following the success of its Festive Feast range, Subway launches “Sub Saver’ to help customers ease straight into the new year with an extra spicy punch. Subway’s gives customers a chance to buy any one of the brand’s iconic Subs at a [...]

Hooters Soon Coming To Your Doorstep

The quick-service restaurant franchise business expands order-ahead and delivery offerings to reach customers who rather enjoy Hooters experience and food from the comforts of their homes. According to Fortune news, Hooters order-ahead and delivery expansion offerings are meant to cater to customers who might not be willing to visit one of the quick-service restaurant [...]

Bella Italia Joins Growing Overseas Franchise Portfolio

Restaurateur Robert O’Donoghue’s has recently adds Bella Italia to his growing overseas franchise portfolio Seasoned restauranteur, Robert O’Donoghue has signed a franchise deal with Casual Dining Group for the exclusive rights to the Bella Italia and Las Iguanas brand in Southern Ireland that will pave the way to continued growth of overseas franchise portfolios. [...]

Driving Miss Daisy Franchise Celebrates Blockbuster Success

Driving Miss Daisy, the specialised driving service franchise inspired by the academy award-winning film celebrates its 30th franchise. The revolutionary companion driving service inspired by the academy award-winning film has marked its 30th franchise since its kick-off in 2014. Headquartered in Port Solent, Driving Miss Daisy unique business model brings to life the [...]

Two New Travelodge Hotels In London For Brent Cross And...

Travelodge, London’s first budget hotel chain adds two new hotels to their franchise portfolio. Travelodge’s two new hotels in Brent Cross and Harrow raises the franchise’s portfolio to over 530 hotels across the UK, with 71 properties in London. A total of £25m has been invested in the two new Travelodge hotels and 45 new jobs have been created. The opening of [...]

Signs Express Takes To Professional Social Media To...

Signs Express franchise’s managing director has announced its management buy-out on LinkedIn. The managing director of the Signs Express franchise, Craig Brown, recently announced the groups’ management buy-out on the professional social media platform, LinkedIn. Brown, who has been part of the company since its early days in 1989 and managing director since 2007, [...]

Wagging Tails Helps Raise Over £17,000 For Hearing Dogs...

Dog boarding franchise Wagging Tails welcomes their first Hearing Dog puppy to the Hearing Dogs for Deaf People family. Wagging Tail started its partnership with Hearing Dogs for Deaf People back in January 2014 and it has since helped raise over £17,000 for the charity. Lisa Suswain, Wagging Tails director and founder is proud to say it is the first dog care [...]

A New Managing Director For Dream Doors

Dream Doors, the UK’s leading kitchen facelift franchise appoints Philip Carr as its new managing director. Philip Carr, Dream Doors new managing director, comes with 16 years’ experience within the KBB sector under his belt and is looking forward to leading the next phase of growth for the company that makes kitchen dreams come true. Prior to taking on this role, [...]

Pizza Hut Partners With Toyota To Develop Self-Driving...

Pizza Hut franchisor steps into the future with state-of-the art electronic self-driving pizza delivery vehicles. This year’s International Consumer Electronics Show was delivered a surprise by the pizza franchise giant with the announcement of their partnership with Toyota to develop fully-autonomous delivery vehicles. An unprecedented innovation that requires no [...]

Choice Hotels International Welcomes Woodspring Suites To...

Choice Hotels International adds WoodSpring Suites to their portfolio of franchised brands. One of the world’s hotel giants, Choice Hotels International has announced the acquisition of the fastest growing value extended-stay hotel company in the US - WoodSpring SuitesSM from WoodSpring Hotels Holdings LLC. A portfolio company of Lindsay Goldberg, WoodSpring SuitesSM [...]

Radfield Home Care Franchise Ranked Amongst UK’s Top 100...

Following substantial growth in its inaugural year providing franchise opportunities, Radfield Home Care has been ranked as one of the UK’s top 100 franchises by Elite Franchise. With all aspects of franchising considered, franchisors are ranked on their growth, franchisee support and financial performance, with a strong consideration also given to their industry [...]

US Sign And Display Franchise Takes Europe By Storm

Fastsigns, the leading US sign and display franchise takes on a master franchisee as part of its European expansion programme. The sign and display franchise headquartered in the US has announced its expansion plans in the UK through a deal signed up with Malta-based master franchisee Famalco Group. Fastsigns new master franchisee will be rolling out 16 locations – [...]

Taco Bell’s New Value Range Fills January With Hot Summer...

With the launch of its new value range, the giant Tex-Mex food chain franchise heats up the post-holiday season blues. Taco Bell has launched a new value range that promises to melt January’s cold winter days away. Across the UK, Taco Bell is turning up the heat in its restaurants with the launch of the new Loaded Beefy Grillers. Last year Taco Bell tested the waters [...]

Stagecoach Celebrates Its 30th Anniversary With A Disney...

Stagecoach, the UK’s leading performance arts franchise business takes Disney’s Beauty and the Beast on the road to celebrate its 30th anniversary. To help celebrate its 30th anniversary, Stagecoach, the UK’s leading performance arts franchise has partnered with Disney to bring Beauty and the Beast to over 6,500 pupils across the UK. By taking Beauty and the Beast on [...]

Driver Hire Glides Into 2018 With A Record-Breaking 2017

Driver Hire’s franchise record-breaking Christmas sets the tone for 2018. Christmas was busier than ever for Driver Hire with an outpour of demands for the franchise’s team of workers and a record-breaking turnover in December that skyrocketed to £13.1m, a 14% increase from the same period in 2016. When Drivers Hire’s chief executive officer, Chris Chidley, was [...]

Signs Express Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary In...

The UK’s leading signs and graphics franchise company celebrates its 25th year anniversary with a record-breaking network growth. To lead Signs Express’s management buy-out is Jonathan Bean, who was the franchise’s finance director for 13 years before becoming the market-leading brand’s new managing director. Jonathan will head the board of directors that includes [...]

Photography For Little People Launch Successful Franchise...

As part of a Photography for Little People Franchise package members received additional training workshops in groups of three franchisees at a time to make sure everything is understood and mastered. Another reason for smaller groups is that training can be personalised around each member correctly. Our latest training workshop focused on working with parents and their [...]

Belvoir Franchisees Portfolio Acquistions 2017 Targets...

Belvoir’s Assisted Acquisitions loan franchisees up to 30% to help them invest and grow their property portfolios. The UK’s largest property franchise, Belvoir recently reported to investors its franchisees have exceeded their portfolio acquisitions targets for 2017. In 2017, franchisees effected 23 acquisitions, raising the annualised network revenues by over [...]

Oscar Pet Foods Ranked Among The 30 Best Franchises In...

Oscar, the UK’s largest pet food home delivery franchise has been ranked in the top 30 of Britain’s best franchises. Oscar Pet Foods has drawn the attention of the Elite Franchise 100 where a panel of experts judged the franchise’s longevity, financial performance, network size, growth, support and innovation, ranking it among Britain’s top 30 best franchises. An Oscar [...]

Homexperts Wins The ‘Sunday Times Best Estate Agency...

HomeXperts wins the ‘Sunday Times Best Estate Agency Franchise’ award in two consecutive years for delivering exceptional customer service. The award-winning Estate and Letting Agency business franchise is now recruiting ambitious self-starters to join their expanding network. With an earning potential of over £25,000 in invoiced commissions in a calendar month, [...]

Successful Subway Franchisee Rolling In The Dough

As Subway’s ambitious growth hits the south coast, a local franchise family enterprise reaps the benefits of their successful Subway franchise business. By the end of 2018, sandwich giant Subway plans to grow its portfolio of eateries across the south coast to a whopping 130, generating over 200 jobs in the region. Subway franchisee Jason Duff has become made a career [...]

Papa John’s Kick Off 2018 With A New Team To Lead Uk’s...

Leading pizza franchise, Papa John’s, has announced the members of its dream team put together to herald the group’s continued expansion across the UK. Papa John’s newly appointed members of its dream team and driving force behind the franchise’s expansion programme are: Aman Virk and Matthew Brennan as acquisition managers responsible for finding new Papa John’s sites; [...]

Lighterlife Steps In To Help Shed The Holidays’ Extra Weight

LighterLife offers healthy and business-sound franchise opportunities to potential franchisees who wish to help make a difference in people’s lives. LighterLife has been at the forefront in weight loss and long-term weight management for the past 25 years. With products and methods that have been backed and scientifically proven worldwide, LighterLife offers franchise [...]

Driver Hire Franchisee Is Awards Finalist

Driver Hire franchisee is recognised as a highly commended finalist in Startups Franchisee of the Year 2017 award Richard Bradshaw, franchisee at Driver Hire Guildford, was a ‘Highly commended’ finalist in the ‘Franchisee of the Year’ category at the 2017 ‘Startups’ awards. The results were announced shortly before Christmas. Established in 2004 by ‘Startups.co.uk’, [...]

Bargain Booze Buys Up 127 P&H Stores

Bargain Booze acquires 127 P&H stores and becomes franchisor for 18 more franchisee run stores in the UK. Conviviality, the alcohol wholesaler that owns Bargain Booze, struck a deal for £25m that includes the acquisition of 109 Central Convenience stores from Palmer & Harvey (P&H) and 18 franchisee run stores. The alcohol wholesale franchisor plans to [...]

Youngest Franchisee Reveals Franchise Success

The youngest franchisee for Photography for Little People reveals success Simona Boycheva is the youngest franchisee at Photography for Little People across the UK. Simona started her baby photography business in 2013 soon after graduating from University of Greenwich. She quickly expanded on her business opportunity and now operates across two areas – London East and [...]

Photograph for Little People Frachisee Announces Success

Gareth Coop, franchisee for Photography for Little People, announces record transaction “When I arrived for my first shoot I thought I was as prepared as I could be, I had brushed up on what poses I was going to do, ran through in my head various conversations I was going to have with the client, confident on the set up, the camera and laptop were charged, the lights [...]