Case Studies

Love Fitness, a fitness franchise with its headquarters in Henley-on-Thames, is a fan favourite of Personal Trainers who work out of the gym. Callum Johnson, a personal trainer who uses Love Fitness as his base of operations had this to say: "A key reason to being a successful Personal trainer is having the right structure at a gym so it allows the trainer to be integrated with members, demonstrate their skills and provide client leads. Out of all the previous gyms I have worked w...

With the coronavirus pandemic easing in the UK, Sheffield-based cleaning business, Poppies cleaning service, has shown how it has survived, thrived and continued to support its local community over the past 18 months. Launched 26 years ago, owner Nigel Bayliss has seen his business’s revenue grow by 160% compared to the same period in 2019. Taking advantage of the government’s flexi-furlough scheme, Nigel has not only retained the majority of his original team during the lockdowns, but he has...

Love Fitness receive some great feedback from a personal trainer who was able to grow their business thanks to the help and backing of the gym franchise. Josh Lewis has been using Love Fitness as his base of operations in order to kickstart his personal training business and had some very kind words to say about his hub."Love Fitness provided me not only with the support, but also the guidance to build a successful Personal Training Business. Their 3 free session model allowed me to meet a...

Starting with the positives from today, I have just been reconciling bank accounts and seeing payments of invoices and a healthy profit, finishing the day feeling secure that business is going well, and it has been worth the hard work. The rest of the day was a whirlwind, but that is a combination of the challenges of managing large teams of people, the problems of COVID and other sickness and absence, and our own fault in being successful in winning new contracts. We are excited to have two new...

Smiley Booth franchisee Darrell Amory managed to win himself 'Franchisee of the Year 2019' thanks to his quality service and great performance.  Darrell Amory often has all 4 different styles of photo booth regularly booked out as his services are that in demand. He won the 'Franchisee of the Year 2019' Smiley Booth's resident video expert, creating fantastic social media show reels. At his busiest he has managed 4 events in 1 day! Whilst having some annual leave he holidayed in St Lucia...

Cardiff based long-term friends Huw Williams and David James have over 30 years of experience in sales and business management and wanted to put their previous commercial skills to good effect in a business partnership of their own, so in August 2020, they undertook their Auditel induction training, and started their new business journey, in September. In late March 2021, we spoke with Huw and David about their experiences so far, and discovered how, despite the pandemic, they already had clien...

We take a look at how Lottie from Onside Coaching began her franchise journey and see what her progress has been since she launched.Lottie originally came in for an interview with Onside for a coaching role; a few meetings later and she was signing up to own her own Onside Coaching Franchise – Onside Coaching East Warwickshire.Her performance over the first two years across has been phenomenal and it’s easy to see why the Onside Directors knew she would be a perfect fit from day one.Here ar...

No matter your age, franchising is an extremely popular route to business ownership for ambitious entrepreneurs. If you’re considering semi-retiring or are approaching retirement age, investing in a franchise can be a great way to uphold a steady income, without having to deal with the long hours and inflexibility of a full-time job.Former Optic-Kleer franchisee, Graham Bastow, was no stranger to the world of franchising when he took on his Stockport territory. Graham had always had the desire t...

In certain industries such as travel, recent statistics show that women are opening 1 out of ever 3 new franchise businesses. It was once historically a very male-dominated industry, franchising is slowly but surely have been changing this over the past decade.  “Across the last 6 months, we’ve seen just over 50% of our new franchisees to be women.” The Travel Franchise Generally speaking women have strong communication skills, are good at building relationships, networking and often...

Ash Obhrai has always been destined to be involved teaching in some shape or form. At an early age, he was surrounded by educators with his father as a GCSE Maths examiner, mother as an A-Level Art & Design teacher and aunt as a successful primary school teacher. After working as a tutor alongside his corporate career for 15 years, he decided to turn the tables and launch his own Tutor Doctor business in 2017.“It was one day when my parents made me realise how fulfilling working in education wou...

Dan has been a franchisee for two years and he did the impossible by expanding during a pandemic. Dan operates with in a large area of Cambridge which has allowed him to expand to multiple locations, working within schools in new areas and then upselling in these areas with the launch of new holiday programmes. "After starting my Prestige Franchise, I can honestly say I haven't looked back. I was working as a PE Teacher and I wanted a change. After meeting the Director Matt, I knew exactly wha...

Paul, Co-Founder of The Travel Franchise received a phone call from franchisee Ben (aged 34) as he couldn't wait to share his exciting and amazing news. Over the course of 12 months, Ben had managed to complete the Money Back Challenge and was going to get 100% of his franchise fee back as a result. Ben had this to say... I’m a bit of a spreadsheet freak. I’ve been counting down the numbers to hit the Money Back Challenge for the past 12 months. As soon as I hit it I shared the news. Dave,...