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SureCare opens Bromley branch to help solve “crisis in health and social care”

SureCare opens Bromley branch to help solve “crisis in health and social care”

Launched with a £51,000 funding package from a high street bank, the franchise has already hired 10 staff and invested in training and "intuitive" tech…

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Break up with your boss! Why you should start a franchise business

Franchising has become one of the safest and most viable methods of operating a business. Express Business Group explains why...…

TaxAssist franchisee Nigel Lomax serves customer at his TaxAssist office on Sundorne Avenue, Shrewsbury

TaxAssist franchisee celebrates 14 successful years of serving small businesses

With entrepreneur Nigel Lomax’s TaxAssist business supporting nearly 650 clients with a growing team, you could find success through franchising too...…

Tech start-up Project M seeking new franchise investment

The Shoreditch based start-up counts British Olympic medallist Louis Smith among its investors and offers “virtual-world real estate” with new app…

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Heritage Healthcare enjoys early-stage franchise growth with new signings

Heritage Healthcare enjoys early-stage franchise growth with new signings

Care chain keen to attract “ambitious and motivated people” on back of latest franchise recruits…

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Franchisee win for Tutor Doctor entrepreneurs changing course of children’s lives

Since becoming franchisees in 2010, Rob and Lynne Kerrison have worked with 2,000 families in Cambridge to provide tutoring support. You can follow in their footsteps…

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Driver Hire in top gear with bronze bfa Franchisor of the Year win

Its third bfa award win of the last four years, the UK's largest specialist supplier of transport and logistics staff enables franchisees to make average net profit of over £130,000 a year…

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You can leverage £7.2bn growth potential of the North West with a franchise

Budding entrepreneurs invited to explore the potential of franchising at The Northern Franchise Exhibition at EventCity Manchester on 22 & 23 June…

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World Options franchisee wins ‘Millionaires Row’ for hitting £1m sales in one year

As the franchise celebrates another record breaking year, Stuart Douglas has been announced as the chain's highest earning franchisee for 2017/2018…

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Meet the 19 UK franchisees competing for 2018 bfa Franchisee of the Year Awards

Among the finalists: 27 year-old Almas Adam who has ran his Right at Home Loughton branch for three years, scaling to 40 employees and 60 clients...…

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This fast-growth UK franchise enables you to run your own care business for £10,000

Seniors Helping Seniors UK recently celebrated its fifth trading year and is now looking to rapidly expand. Could it be the franchise opportunity for you?…

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These are the 18 best franchises to join in the UK, according to the bfa

The finalists for the annual bfa Franchisor of the Year Awards have been announced with some familiar names among those listed...…

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Seniors Helping Seniors named one of the top 10 home care groups in the UK

The franchise brand, which was a finalist at the Startups Awards 2017, is calling on entrepreneurs to run care businesses as franchisees in its network…

Signarama offers “low fuss, low overhead” business opportunity with new franchise model

Signarama offers “low fuss, low overhead” business opportunity with new franchise model

2017 saw franchisees in Birmingham South, Reading, Harrogate and Preston report record-breaking figures, with some achieving a 76% turnover increase…

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ActionCOACH global CEO and CEO Asia-Pacific Vic Ciuffetelli

ActionCOACH’s global CEO steps down to help its UK franchisees supercharge growth

Having started a new role in the global brand's UK support team, Vic Ciuffetelli will use his 30 years' business growth experience to boost its British network…

Meet the award-winning team behind Clarriots Care’s “best” franchise

Meet the award-winning team behind Clarriots Care’s “best” franchise

Run by Paul and Jane Best and with a team that's "like family", the Cheshire East office was voted 2017 Franchise of the Year by the brand…

OSCAR Pet Food franchisees Steve and Jill Tubbs

Meet the couple who who turned disaster into success through franchising

Too young to give up work but too old for employment, Steve and Jill Tubbs found the perfect business opportunity with OSCAR Pet Food...…

Jonathan Bean Signs Express MD

Signs Express concludes 25th year of franchising with record growth and MBO

Craig Brown has exited signs and graphics chain with Jonathan Bean, former finance director, taking up role of managing director to "build on legacy"…

The Creation Station franchise

The Creation Station is offering £2,000 grants to help you start an arts & crafts franchise

Award-winning arts and crafts experience company is seeking aspiring entrepreneurs to join its chain this New Year. Here's what you need to know…

Tutor Doctor franchise

Tutor Doctor ends 2017 on a high as it scales opportunities to start a tutoring business

The tutoring franchise has been ranked among the top 20 franchises in the UK, following a year in which it welcomed 22 new recruits to its network…

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