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It was celebrations all round for EweMove the estate agency franchise at this year’s Times/Sunday Times Estate Agency of the Year Awards as the firm scooped four top honours, including Gold for Best Estate Agency Franchise. EweMove Sales & Lettings Franchise, the UK’s first hybrid estate agency which launched in 2014, was praised by the judges for offering its franchisees a ‘fantastic proposition’ and for its ‘highest level of personal service… supported by a fantastic brand’ at the official ce...

Leading pizza franchise, Papa John’s, has announced it teamed-up with Save the Children again this year to raise funds for children around the world. Papa John’s food franchise is committed to donating £250,000 in total to support Save the Children’s Christmas Jumper Day.This year Save the Children’s annual Christmas Jumper Day will be sweeping the nation on 16 December as schools, homes and businesses across the country will be ditching their day-to-day dress for a Christmas Jumper as Seriousl...

Bill Gates once declared he would spend his last dollar on PR, but would you? As a franchisee, your brand will be defined by your franchisor but ultimately marketing decisions are down to you. To start, don’t think about your last dollar. Focus instead on this tried and tested marketing advice for franchisees. Follow the guidelines Marketing is an inherently risky sport. Knowing which techniques will work, and which won’t, is a mystery for most. But franchisees are in the unique position of...

Trophy Pet Foods has just launched their brand new Christmas movie available on all their social media platforms. A real fun and visual way of seeing what Trophy Pet Foods has to offer over the festive period. You can view it here Please submit a request form for further information on this Pet Food Franchise

Roland Wood and his team are celebrating 15 years serving within his small franchise territory community in Shepperton.After setting up his TaxAssist Accountants franchise in 2001, Roland and his franchise team settled into offices on High Street, before relocating to a bigger and more prominent office down the road in response to regular 20% year-on-year growth and consistently increasing demand from the small business community. The six-strong team now provides specialist tax and accountancy s...

European CEO Magazine has awarded Ian Christelow, co-founder and Managing Director of the ActionCOACH UK franchise, the world’s number one business services franchise*, the Business Coaching “Entrepreneur of the Year 2016” for Western Europe.The renowned magazine for international business leaders has been recognising outstanding successes and innovations since 2003. This year, European CEO Magazine asked CEOs across Eastern and Western Europe to nominate people they have worked with for these a...

Leading pizza franchise, Papa John’s, has announced the opening of its new Northamptonshire franchise pizza store, located in the town centre on Bridge Street. Almost thirty new staff have been recruited to serve-up Papa John’s top quality pizza to local residents from the franchised outlet which will be run by husband and wife team Mr and Mrs Mohammed Tanveer. The new store will be operating within the franchise territory of Northampton. Mohammed Tanveer (Tan), franchisee for Papa Johns pizza,...

After over 17 years working with teenagers, Kathryn Mellett was frustrated. She regularly saw students who had not received the support they needed in school, and how this was now affecting their college education. She wanted to find a way in which she could help these students before they reached college – to make sure they had every opportunity to realise their full potential as they worked to gain life skills and good qualifications. So, she chose MagiKats franchise!When asked why MagiKats wa...

Andrew Morton now has two offices and two shops More than a decade after first setting up TaxAssist Accountants in Ludlow to provide specialist tax and accountancy services to the small business community, accountant Andrew Morton has expanded his services to Bridgnorth, opening a fourth office in the Smithfield Centre. Andrew established TaxAssist Accountants in Ludlow in 2003, before opening in Craven Arms in 2006 and Leominster in 2012 and now his team looks after the tax and accountancy ne...

Jonathan Berks has been so delighted with the success of the TaxAssist Accountants business franchise model, he is celebrating his 20th anniversary, while five of his fellow accountancy franchisees are marking 15 years as part of the network.Jonathan, who owns the TaxAssist Accountants franchise within the Royston, Hertfordshire franchise territory is the franchise network’s longest-serving franchisee, having joined in 1996.One of TaxAssist’s very first franchisees, Jonathan chose to invest his...

In 2013,ActionCOACH was awarded “5 Star Franchisee Satisfaction” status by Smith and Henderson, following outstanding feedback undertaken anonymously by ActionCOACH franchise owners. This year, they have secured the 5 Star status again and have been shortlisted for the Best Mid-Priced Franchise 2016.Smith & Henderson’s Franchise Satisfaction Survey has been adopted by over 100 franchisors since it started in 2011. Each of the franchisee satisfaction dimensions are broken down into 4-5 questions....

Signs Express, the market leading signs and graphics company in the UK, continues to grow its franchise network of over 60 centres. With over 25 years of experience, this proven franchise business model has some premium locations and franchise resales of existing franchise centres currently available and has just welcomed David Anthony to the network as the new franchise owner of Signs Express that will operate within the franchise territory of Warwick,David will be working alongside the highly...