Suzanne Cox and Kristy Roff are celebrating the first birthday of their Get Ahead VA Berkshire and North Hampshire franchise. It has certainly been a busy year, full of unexpected challenges and surprises.
All across the UK, children’s entertainers and activity providers are adapting to our current ‘new normal’. One business that has been adapting in a variety of different ways is Fun Science which has franchised branches across the UK. Read on to find out about some of the different things that Fun Science branch owners are doing. Continue reading “Fun Science – Adapting to Covid-19 as a children’s activity franchise”
From humble beginnings, the franchise theatre school has built a network of inspiring franchisees. As part of our celebration, we speak to some of them about their own journeys and what joining the Dragons’ Den backed franchise has done for them.
Are you interested in working with children to deliver something a bit out of the ordinary – not just your usual playgroup or arts and crafts class? Do you have a passion for numbers and shapes and like the idea of inspiring children with creative and exciting, maths-related activities?
With headquarters based in Watford, House of Colour, the UK’s premier personal stylist and colour analysis experts, is celebrating record successes in 2018.
Continue reading “House Of Colour Celebrates Record Success”
Direct mail distribution and print specialists Dor-2-Dor are celebrating the growth of their 60 strong network of franchises with the addition of a further four franchisees strategically located throughout the UK.
Ovenu, the UK’s leading oven valeting franchise, has welcomed three new franchisees to its growing network.
The Wokingham, Berkshire-headquartered company has extended its geographical reach with new franchisees taking up territories in Aylesbury, Bicester and Banbury, as well as Stonehaven.
Continue reading “Ovenu celebrates hat-trick of new franchisees”
This week, our member spotlight blog is on a new and unique AFA member, Curves International. Curves is a boutique-style fitness club exclusively for women, offering a 30-minute circuit workout, small group exercise classes, coaching and personal progress tracking. Starting and running a successful franchise is an extremely rewarding experience, thanks to their proven business model and increased media presence.
Clear Brew are well on their way to completing the goal of covering the entire UK by announcing their 41st franchisee, Neil Hickton, who will cover the Leicestershire region. Stephen Trezona, MD and owner of Clear Brew is delighted with the announcement as he considers it a major step towards brand strengthening and national coverage and further affirmation that the Clear Brew franchise package is continuing to appeal to those wishing to start their own business by being part of the UK’s leading beer line cleaning company. He also states that,
Continue reading “Clear Brew sign up their 41st Franchisee.”
A Camberley-based oven valeter is celebrating a successful 10 years in business.
Paul Hellewell, owner of Ovenu Camberley, is to mark the milestone by expanding his business with the potential addition of a sub-contractor over the next 12 months
Continue reading “Camberley oven valeting firm set for expansion as it celebrates 10th anniversary”
This week, I’m handing over the reigns of this blog post to John Kent of Brokerplan. He’s written a case study about one of his business partners, Darren Peacock …
Darren joined the Brokerplan Network and launched ‘Peacock Business Finance’ in 2014 after a long career in the food industry. Based on Humberside, Darren had spent many years building up a chilled and frozen food distribution business which was successfully sold to management colleagues.
This week’s guest post is from, Kieran James of Paykeeper Ltd. It’s about some brilliant tools you can use in the franchise industry. So over to you Kieran …
Continue reading “4 Brilliant Tools You Need In The Franchise Industry”
DOR-2-DOR leaflet distribution and printing have just launched 3 new franchisees for Walsall, Coventry & Harlow increasing its network to 70 franchisees across the United Kingdom …
Continue reading “DOR-2-DOR Leaflet Distribution Launches 3 New Franchisees”
I’m always pleased to hear good news from our members and will highlight them via the Approved Franchise Association blog. This week, Cornwall based Clear Brew announce their 10th anniversary …
Continue reading “Clear Brew: Celebrating 10 Years In Business”
Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the EWiF Annual Conference 2016. EWiF stands for Encouraging Women into Franchising and their mission is to inspire, encourage, educate and support women considering or involved in franchising …
Clear Brew, the beer line cleaning professionals, held their 1st annual conference to support and promote growth for its network of 30 franchised companies located throughout the UK. The conference was a great success and included sales, marketing and product maintenance seminars aimed at further growth and continued sustainability within the Clear Brew team.
It was a fantastic opportunity for all the owner/operators to meet and form positive business relationships with each other. Clear Brew Devon commented “The conference was so inspiring the fire in our bellies we have for Clear Brew has turned into a roar, we have taken on a further employee as business is booming and we are looking forward to next year already.
Crispin Rhodes is the fastest growing HR Franchise in the UK, offering Human Resources advice and support to small and medium businesses. Founded by Angela Rhodes in Milton Keynes, the company guides business owners and managers through their HR responsibilities with easy to understand, straight forward advice – and in almost 20 years of trading no client that has followed their advice has ever been successfully taken to an employment tribunal or fallen foul of any HR related minefield.
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