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16-March-2023

Revive! Conference Celebrates Another Outstanding Year

Delegates at the recent 19th annual Revive! conference heard that the UK’s leading SMART repair network has achieved its best ever year. In 2022, the business was named Gold winner in the prestigious British Franchise Association/HSBC Franchisor of the Year Awards and won the Lloyds bank sponsored Workbuzz Best Management Franchise Award.

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16-March-2023

NEIGHBOURLY CELEBRATES RECORD-BREAKING YEAR AT BIGGEST CONFERENCE EVER

Neighbourly, one of Britain’s largest home services organisations and home to 6 established brands including Bright and Beautiful, Countrywide Grounds Maintenance, Drain Doctor, Dream Doors, Greensleeves, and Pimlico Plumbers, celebrated a record-breaking 2022 at one of the UK’s biggest franchise events on 9th March.

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15-March-2023

Just Shutters Conference, a Smashing Success!

Just Shutters Business owners from across the UK came together in Bournemouth to attend our annual conference. It was a smashing success! The conference presented a wonderful opportunity for both our new and well-established business owners to connect with each other. 

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14-March-2023

No Industry Experience? No problem...At Signs Express, we offer a Comprehensive Three Week Training Programme

With a commitment to help you grow your business and achieve your goals, we offer our franchisees extensive training and support throughout your Signs Express career to ensure you are set up for success.

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14-March-2023

How Multi Unit QSR Franchisees can Improve Employee Engagement and Retention

Theoretically, it’s easy to spot the difference between an engaged and a disengaged employee. You can look at their quality of work, willingness to collaborate, and overall behaviour in the workplace. But employee engagement can be difficult to quantify and measure – and disengaged employees are more likely to quit.  Further if you are a franchisee managing multi-unit stores in the quick service restaurant (QSR) industry for example, your challenges are even greater. By Gareth Bakewell, Business Development UK, DTiQ

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14-March-2023

Plan-it Cards officially relaunches franchise opportunity

Plan-it Cards, one of the leading brands in the greetings cards industry, is excited to announce the relaunch of its franchise opportunity. Established in 2000, Plan-it Cards is an independent UK-owned family business, with Franchisor Jonathan and Irene Waterson now having joint ownership, and working alongside their son David who looks after IT and Innovation.

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14-March-2023

TaxAssist reveals outstanding network performance in January

Network sales are up a record 23% year-on-year.

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14-March-2023

Doner Shack set to launch in London

It’s official, the Berlin-street food brand Döner Shack is set to open with a bang on Baker Street on 27th March 2023, offering 200 free kebaps a day to celebrate its debut in London. The fast-casual brand that specialises in kebaps, chicken schnitzels and milkshakes, is an exciting new addition to the famous street and aims to change the perception of kebabs in the UK.

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14-March-2023

Awesome Chips Invites Customers to Celebrate Chip Potato Day with New Chipizza!

The fresh fries franchise, Awesome Chips, is inviting customers to celebrate NATIONAL POTATO CHIP DAY - March 14, 2023 - National Today, with a new Chip Pizza.  The Awesome ‘Chipizza’ has now been added to the menu across its stores in London, Birmingham and Leicester.  

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13-March-2023

Legal Requirements: Buying a Business, The Process

When it comes to buying a business, it can certainly seem quite daunting. Whilst here at Signs Express we support you every step of the way, we want to ensure you’re getting expert advice at all times, therefore we partnered with Franchising Specialist Law Firm EMW Law to break down each stage of the legal process associated to buying a new business.

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