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19-April-2016

British Franchise Association appoints new operations manager

The British Franchise Association (bfa) has appointed Emily Price as its new operations manager, succeeding Pip Wilkins who takes on the role of chief executive on Wednesday 6 April.

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19-April-2016

Finalists announced for bfa HSBC Franchisor of the Year Awards

A diverse range of businesses will compete for the biggest accolades in UK franchising after the British Franchise Association (bfa) revealed the shortlist for the bfa HSBC Franchisor of the Year Awards 2016.

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15-April-2016

Why Home Instead is the UK's number one homecare franchise

It’s the culture and people that make us No 1,” says Ruth Brown, Head of Franchise Development, Home Instead Senior Care. In this article we look at 5 reasons why we CAN say we ARE the UK’s number one homecare franchise.

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14-April-2016

Trophy Pet Foods new franchisees

The Trophy Pet Food franchise has continued its 2016 national growth with the announcement that 4 more new Trophy franchisees have joined the Trophy team in April.

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14-April-2016

The Marion E. Wade award goes to ServiceMaster Clean Contract Services Stoke

ServiceMaster Clean Contract Services Stoke, which specialises in school and education cleaning, medical care facilities and commercial premises, has scooped ServiceMaster’s most prestigious honour ahead of over 200 other businesses at the company’s 2015 national conference in Warwickshire.

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14-April-2016

Cleaning up - new owner for Derbyshire cleaning company

Micheal Ireland, 30, from Retford purchased the ServiceMaster Clean Derby franchise after building his career as a lead technician with neighbouring business, ServiceMaster Clean Doncaster.

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13-April-2016

TaxAssist unveils new look "mobile friendly" websites

TaxAssist Accountants is pleased to advise that it has launched its newly designed client and potential franchisee websites. Both sites have been redesigned with a clean new look, to improve the experience of users, and to enable clearer access to content from mobile devices.

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12-April-2016

TaxAssist Accountant celebrates 56 per cent increase in business

Lloyd Evans and his team are celebrating a successful start to the year after seeing a dramatic increase in business. Lloyd, who has been a TaxAssist Accountants franchisee since 2012, services almost 700 individuals and small businesses from his two shops which cover Wolverhampton and Kingswinford in the West Midlands.

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12-April-2016

Hatfield is latest opening for franchisee's Papa John's portfolio

Leading pizza franchise, Papa John’s, has announced franchisee Abdul Sattar Karami has opened the Company’s newest store in Hatfield. This takes Abdul’s portfolio of franchised Papa John’s to thirteen, including key locations such as: Harpenden, Leighton Buzzard, Hitchin, St Albans, Watford and Hemel-Hempstead.

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11-April-2016

£15bn franchise sector sets number of record highs

The bfa/NatWest Franchise Survey 2015 has just been released and the findings are optimistic. In particular, franchising has contributed approximately £15.1 billion to the UK economy over the last 12 months and, of the franchises reviewed, the performances of these businesses have set a new benchmark with 97% profitability reported. To discover more about this thriving industry...

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