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Domino’s Pizza Gives Away 100 Gift Cards For Their Birthday

To celebrate its birthday, Domino’s Pizza launches “The Official Food of Everything” gift card range. Loyal super fans will be able to gift their favourite pizzas to loved ones on special occasions such as, ‘another year lying about your age’, ‘the morning after the night before’, and ‘no more flowers from the petrol station’. This limited-edition-collection is made up [...]

Northern Ireland KFC Franchise Amasses £27m Refinancing Deal

After securing a £27 million refinancing deal with Danske Bank, The Herbert Group, the largest KFC operator in central Europe, plans on expanding its network and growing its headcount to 5,000. The Belfast-headquartered group has recently acquired 27 KFC stores and with the new refinancing deal they plan on opening 20 more next year and set up a new home delivery [...]

Travelodge Replaces Holiday Inn Express At John Lennon...

Peel Land and Property Group have handed over a 25-year lease to Travelodge from its previous occupants Holiday Inn Express. The new Travelodge Liverpool John Lennon Airport features 100 bedrooms, a café and three meeting rooms and the transformation is expected to be complete by the end of the year. Travelodge is the budget group’s number 549th hotel and its [...]

Dream Doors Roll Out The Red Carpet For New Recruits

With over 80 showrooms nationwide, Dream Doors is the UK’s largest kitchen facelift retailers to launch a recruitment drive to take over the 40 plus territories thirsty for business. The Kitchen franchise is looking for driven and talented individuals or couples to sprout Dream Doors franchises across the country. Dream Doors is the kitchen makeover service that [...]

Razzamataz Theatre School Blasts Off

To change one’s life around and shift a major career move from the public sector to running a successful business in the private, can be considered an unimaginable feat. Here is the story of a former head of performing arts in a state school who launched her Razzamataz Theatre School and changed her life around. Debbie Ledwith, from Bershire, was a secondary [...]

Belvoir Breaks All Time Franchise License Renewal Record

Belvoir letting agency announces a record breaking year for franchise license renewals in 2017 and with 34 offices around the country, it celebrates a total of 325 collective years with the company. The agency reports the British Franchise Association’s findings suggest changes in franchisee businesses are in decline and failure rates are lower than other small [...]

Nando's Invites You To Eat And Feast Your Eyes On South...

Some of South Africa’s brightest artists starred in Nando’s first pop-up gallery in the Soho restaurant where patrons had the opportunity to enjoy guest appearances from the artists and special panellists whilst savouring the UK’s favourite chicken eatery’s Peri-Peri chicken. You may be wondering what the connection is between Southern African [...]

Papa John’s Launches A New Deep Crust Pizza

Deep crust pizza lovers are in for a double treat with Papa John’s new deep crust pizza. With a thicker, mouth-watering cheesy crust and an extra cup of cheese that spreads all the way to the edges, this new pizza is cooked in a special extra deep pan and based with a new recipe sauce. Papa John’s says: “The specially formulated recipe features a [...]

Travelodge Announces It Will Open 15 New Hotels In 2017

Budget hotels group Travelodge announces it will open 15 hotels in 2017, bringing its network of hotels to 558 locations in the UK, Spain and Ireland. The new hotels will open in city centre locations like Newcastle and York, including four hotels which will be positioned for large-scale regional shopping and leisure centres. The new hotels will feature the [...]

Costa Coffee’s Hi Tech Shop Of The Future

Costa Coffee partners up with Cambridge Wireless (CW) and The Innovation Dividend and appeals to the UK tech scene for inspiration on ways to enhance the customer experience in their newly opened Bradfield Centre in Cambridge. Costa Coffee will hold an expert panel on 25th September where companies are invited to pitch innovative ideas and the winner will be given the [...]

Pizza Hut Jumps On The Vegan Bandwagon

As food and beverage brands like Ben & Jerry’s and Baileys almond milk liquor are moving away from animal products with new diary-free alternatives, Pizza Hut launches a vegan cheese pizza. Vegans will finally have the opportunity to feast on vegan cheese pizzas instead of grazing on leafy greens at the salad bar. Vegan food company Violife announces Pizza [...]

Signs Express Funds New Start-Ups

The burgeoning sign network is going an extra mile to ensure their business’ steady growth. By the end of 2017, the sign franchise will be opening six new stores across the country and has announced they will aid any new Signs Express start-up by funding them with £30,000. This funding is designed to help the company off the ground and to build contacts and [...]

Starbucks announces new store design partner

Coffee giant, Starbucks UK, announced that it has began a partnership with revolutionary furniture design company, Pentatonic. The bespoke furniture designer said they will use post-consumer waste for their products which will feature in a new pop-up cafe during the London Design Festival this September. The coffee franchise group has said it is committed to reducing [...]

Costa Coffee Chain Is Spreading Like Wildfire

The Costa chain’s expansion is on the rise as it takes over a former Game outlet in Erdington, Birmingham and joins the Marischal Square development in Aberdeen, Scotland. A former Game outlet in High Street Erdington, which has been vacant since June 2016, will soon house a new Costa Coffee shop. Spanning over two floors – 232sq m on the ground floor and [...]

Metro Rod’s Half-Year Figures Hail A Bright Future

The UK’s leader in drain cleaning and maintenance, Metro Rod, is taking the industry by storm. Acquired by Kidderminster-headquartered Franchise Brands in April for £28.5m, Metro Rod’s half-year figures boasts a rise in revenue to £8.64m compared to £2.4m during the same period in 2016. There has also been a significant pre-tax profit by 38 [...]

Creams Café Is Opening Two New Eateries In Essex

Creams Café, the luxury Italian gelato and dessert chain specialising in ice cream, waffles, crepes, cakes and sundaes will be opening shops in Brentwood and Chelmsford sometime early this year. The Brentwood branch of the food franchise began works back in June and although the shopfront is already features the Creams Café brand colours of black and [...]

Fastsigns MD announces major UK expansion plans

As Fastsigns celebrates the first successful year in operation of two of its signage franchises in the UK – Oxford North and Bolton branches, the International brand’s MD, John Davies, lays out his plans for expansion which include future franchise opportunities across the country, co-branding, merging or the buying out of pre-existing companies. [...]

Driver hire celebrates anniversaries and new owners

The 12th September 2017 marked the first-year anniversary as Driver Hire franchisees for Tony Goacher (Croydon) and Andy O’Donnell (Nottingham). Tony was a member of the Driver Hire senior management team before he decided to buy his own franchise and becoming his own boss. After seven years working for Driver Hire and witnessing first-headedly the benefits of [...]

Subway prepares for a long overdue makeover

Subway brand announces a refurbishment programme that will bring the chain’s 2,500-strong store estate up to par with the consumer’s growing expectations. The opening of the fresh sandwich retailer’s 2,500th store last month in Keynsham, Somerset, is the second to endorse the new “Fresh Forward” store design which features brighter colours, a contemporary décor and a [...]

PetStay win 5* award

The popular pet care franchise, PetStay, has recently announced that they have won the 5 Star Franchise Satisfaction Award - one of a handful in 2017. The organisers, Smith + Henderson, says the award “helps excellent franchisors stand out from the competition”. The research agency said that PetStay had demonstrated excellence across training, support and relationships [...]

Papa John's plans new outlets

American pizza franchise giant, Papa John’s, has plans for a new outlet in Bridgwater, Somerset. The planning application includes full design details including signage, site plan and window panels. The new outlet would be the second in the county adding to the existing site in Taunton. The rapid expansion follows announcements from existing franchisees, Clif [...]

Ewemove owner denies sale

The owner of popular online estate agent franchise Ewemove, The Property Franchise Group, has today denied that it has sold the brand to Countrywide. They also rejected claims that Ewemove was up for sale at all. The Property Franchise Group acquired Ewemove in 2016 and has recently announced the appointment of Nick Neill as the new managing director in a management [...]

Anytime Fitness plans expansion

The international gym and fitness group, Anytime Fitness, has said that it’s committed to an aggressive expansion strategy that will see over 400 clubs opening within the next 3 years. The UK franchisor currently has over 120 clubs and have planned to have 150 by the end of the year. The company also has ambitious expansion plans in the USA with plans to open 65 franchise [...]

Signarama UK launches new bolt-on model

Sign franchise giant, Signarama UK, has announced that it’s launching a new franchising model which will allow existing business to bolt on their franchise services. The franchise bolt on will be offered to small to medium sized businesses in the print sector. The printing franchise said it will be offering packages starting at £20,000 with a franchisee fee of [...]

Pizza Hut announces sales increase

The Pizza giant, Pizza Hut UK, has announced a 3% sales increase on the previous year. The group, however, saw pre-tax profits fall 40% which was blamed in part to increased franchising and staffing costs. The fast food franchise said the increase in sales was evidence of the benefit of the extensive refurbishment programme which was initiated in 2012 by new owners, [...]

KFC opens airport restaurant

Popular chicken franchise restaurant, KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) has opened its first outlet at a UK airport. The new outlet will serve customers breakfast from 4am to 10am from the departures lounge in Terminal 3. Hungry passengers who are flying in the evening will be served the full menu right up to when the last flight leaves each evening. Commercial Directory, [...]

ERA welcomes new franchisees

Expense Reduction Analysts has seen a highly successful summer with the graduation of 9 brand new franchisees from the company’s foundation training programme. The group was made up of a diverse individuals with different backgrounds - the graduate franchisees came from all over the world including: Spain, Germany, Switzerland and New Zealand. The cost [...]

M&S expands international franchising

The retailer Marks and Spencer (M&S) has said it has started discussions with its franchise partner, Dubai-based Al-Futtaim, over the potential sale of its outlets in Hong Kong and Macau. The group currently has had a franchising deal with Al-Futtaim since 1998 and is looking to further the partnership by increasing their presence in China with a network of 27 [...]

Domino's looks to London with £24 million deal

Domino’s Pizza group, also known as DPG, has announced that it has signed a deal worth £24 million to partner up with it’s largest London Franchise business. Currently, Domino’s has 25 outlets in London and points out that the deal will provide “advantage of the significant growth opportunity in the London area”. DPG says that the deal will mean that it will take a [...]

Dream Doors celebrates success

Kitchen Franchise Dream Doors has announced record breaking success with the franchise brand opening 2 new showroom outlets in a single day. The new two outlets are based in Exeter and South Glasgow and are ran by two passionate kitchen designers, Mike Maughan-Brown and Ian McLachan. The opening ceremony was attended by Lord Mayor Lesley Robinson and the Managing [...]