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Three Dwyer Group brands have been named in the top 100 of UK franchise businesses in the inaugural Elite Franchise 100, a league table that recognises and rates the best and brightest franchises in the UK. Countrywide Grounds Maintenance is placed at 37, the highest placed gardening and grounds maintenance business in the list. The company was launched in 1985 to provide grounds maintenance services and today has over 50 franchises and is one of the largest specialist operations of its kind.Br...

OSCAR Pet Foods has brilliant news as it launches into a year of exciting marketing opportunities. The key to being noticed, getting involved and having a presence is generated by great PR and marketing - it is the promotional shop window to any business – and as OSCAR is keen to offer extra support to new franchisees, 2018 begins with even more inspirational marketing solutions. To guide franchisees through the early stages of business development OSCAR has engaged in the services of professi...

The majority of people looking to run their own business consider franchising so that they can control their own destiny. A large part of this is to enjoy your own personal time and space and to relish your environment and surroundings. Our latest high-performing business for sale has both.  A fantastic opportunity for a well-established lucrative franchise business is for sale in the picturesque area within the Lancashire franchise territory. This market-leading sales franchise has the pe...

Christmas is a time for family and friends and those of us with pets want our furry friends to be able to join in and enjoy the festivities. While planning your Christmas list why not make all your pets' Christmas wishes come true. Take a look at the great range of OSCAR toys and treats to help distract their attention from what will be on your table or under the Christmas tree – don't forget they can usually sniff out what's been wrapped up! Ask your local OSCAR Nutritional franchise Advisor...

More Than Loft Ladders (MTLL) is a home improvement franchise that isn’t just for Christmas. In fact, the company solves a problem many homeowners face all year round. But the solution it provides is particularly helpful as Christmas approaches. The problem is space. Or a lack of it. And the solution is right above our heads. The loft takes up a third of the floor space in most homes. Typically, it's badly lit, dusty and verging on the inaccessible. But we clamber up there twice at this time o...

Vic Ciuffetelli has over 30 years of business growth experience having worked as a CEO for firms across the globe including 17 years as Global CEO and CEO Asia-Pacific for ActionCOACH. When Ian Christelow, ActionCOACH’s UK co-founder, heard that Vic was considering stepping down and returning to his home in Australia to start his own ActionCOACH coaching firm, he presented a new challenge to Vic. “Working with ActionCOACH’s Global Founder, Brad Sugars, I had helped to grow the franchise into...

While banks and other financial services continue to close branches across the UK, TaxAssist Accountants has been seeing High Street franchise growth. Karl Sandall, Chief Executive Director of TaxAssist Accountants franchise, which has more than 200 shops across the UK, said having a high-street presence remained a key part of the company’s strategy to get its name known and attract business. "For us, having our shops in central locations means our services are easily accessible to local busin...

Leading pizza franchise, Papa John’s, has announced it is building on the strength of its management team in order to drive the continued development and acquisition of new stores opening across the UK. New appointments include: Aman Virk and Matthew Brennan as acquisition managers responsible for finding new Papa John’s franchise locations, while Andy Malthouse, Susan Henley and Sarah Dellow join the project team to oversee the building of new franchise stores. John Mott, who joined Pa...

The Pet franchise sector is booming and there’s no surprise when it was estimated that 40% of UK households have pets! For a pet based franchise, these numbers are really encouraging and show the true potential of setting up a pet based franchise business within the UK. This isn’t a fad, our love affair with pets is here for good.  As the UK moves closer to half of all households in the country owning pets, the pet industry will only continue to grow. This then opens a huge opportunity wit...

Richard Chatten QFP, International Support Manager at TaxAssist Accountants’ Support Centre in Norwich, joins an elite number of professionals granted the Diploma in Franchise Management. To gain the prestigious industry-recognised qualification, Richard spent two years studying all key aspects of franchise management through a series of franchise workshops delivered by Paul Monaghan DiFM QFP, of The Franchise Training Centre (pictured with Richard). Richard said:  “I’ve really enjoyed...

After six years providing tax and accountancy services to the small business community across Leicestershire, Tej Gawera has expanded his accountancy franchise practice with the opening of a new shopfront office in Syston.Tej Gawera set up his TaxAssist Accountants franchise within the franchise territory of Uppingham Road in Leicester in 2011, and now looks after more than 400 small businesses across the region. He opened his second accountancy franchise shop within the franchise territory of M...

National accountancy franchise TaxAssist Accountants was named winner of the prestigious Smith + Henderson ‘Best Franchise 2017 Award’ in the Business to Business category.The award comes off the back of a network-wide survey, in which franchisees were invited to complete an anonymous Franchise Satisfaction Benchmark survey. Franchisees were asked to rate the training and support provided by TaxAssist, the franchise system and their overall franchise ownership experience.Having already been awar...