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It is a significant reflection on the quality of a franchise operation when a franchisor becomes a franchisee. Too often the marketing promises of franchising businesses fail to live up to expectations, but the case of Martin & Co’s Chelmsford franchisee, Stephen Frost, is a great example of a businessman really putting his money where his mouth is.
Each month, UK tenants lose more than £15,000 in un-returned deposits from landlords according to Belvoir, Britain’s biggest lettings specialist. However, Belvoir, which has an office on, Lincoln Road, in, Peterborough, says tenants need to realise that, if they follow a few golden rules, there is no reason why their deposits should not be returned in full at the end of a tenancy.
Choice Hotels International (NYSE: CHH), the global hotel group behind the Comfort, Quality, Sleep Inn and Clarion brands and one of the largest and most successful lodging franchisors in the world, today announced that it has opened five new hotels in Europe and is on track to open a further three in January 2009.
Sharon Titchmarsh, formerly of Belvoir and Director of business brokerage Enable, and more recently employed as Portfolio Buyer at Countrywide Residential Lettings, has joined Martin & Co to develop the momentum for business acquisitions in 2009.
Dream Doors franchise has just held its sixth annual conference at the Marriott Hotel in Portsmouth. The director general of the British Franchise Association, Brian Smart, attended the event to talk to franchisees about the development of the Portsmouth-based brand into a national franchise.
Today, anyone choosing to start up their own business needs extra reassurance that the business model for their new enterprise is future proof and fit to weather the challenges of the current economic downturn. Vital to the success of the business will be the identification of a market sector unaffected – or whose growth has been fuelled by – the much debated credit crunch. A sharp increase in the number of disputes made by tenants or landlords (The Tenancy Deposit Scheme is currently dealing with over 150 disputes a week) has impacted on the demand for detailed, consistent and independent inventory reports to provide the relevant authoritative documentation to help settle such disputes – such as those offered by No Letting Go, the UK’s first national inventory management brand operating in the domestic rental market.
The only ‘crunch’ word at OSCAR is for their pet customers to be tucking into a bowl of healthy food. Repeat business is just another strength of an Oscar franchise opportunity and for pet owners to cut back on vital necessities, at a difficult financial time, may eventually prove to be more costly.
The bfa has today announced the appointment of Ascent PR to assist in the launch of a targeted PR programme aimed at raising the profile of the franchise industry while communicating the benefits to both consumers and investors of best practice, ethical franchising.
Martin and Co, the UK’s leading lettings agency, has been named as “Franchisor of the Year” at the national Negotiator Magazine awards ceremony held at the London Park Lane Hilton Hotel. The award recognises excellence in the property services sector.
The National Training Awards are designed to celebrate organisations and individuals that demonstrate outstanding business and personal success through investment in training. By recognising best practice, the awards aim to raise awareness and inspire others to invest in learning and development as a route to becoming world class.
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