UK Franchise Opportunities

TruGreen

Thousands of customers endorse ServiceMaster by purchasing their services every day. Since 1959 ServiceMaster has lead the way in home, office and industrial cleaning and maintenance in Britain .

As one of the seven founder members of the British Franchise Association and one of the most experienced franchisors in the United Kingdom , ServiceMaster have played a vital role in the shaping of the Franchising in Britain .

If you have the drive and motivation, ServiceMaster will supply the experience, training, support and the right opportunity for you.

There are six separate opportunities available with ServiceMaster, please select an opportunity from the below list to see how ServiceMaster could help you to realise your true potential.

Merry Maids
TruGreen
Disaster Restoration Services
Contract Services
Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning
Furniture Medic

Merry Maids - (Back to Top)

Since the Merry Maids franchise was introduced into the United Kingdom in 1993 the network has grown to over 108 businesses. Within just seven years Merry Maids established itself as the market leader in an industry that business strategists have predicted will grow and grow.

Merry Maids is a management franchise opportunity providing a professional, customised cleaning service to its customers. Regular one-off cleans are supplied to working women, dual income families, the affluent, the elderly and for commercial prospects through estate agents and letting agents as well as all those families who value leisure time above the household chores.

Merry Maids are looking for mature couples or individuals to acquire ownership of a Merry Maids Franchise who have the skills to manage a fast growing business and the cleaning staff who work within it.

Merry Maids specialised, two person cleaning concept and accompanying pay incentives attract people who seek part time weekday employment, convenient hours and above average salaries on the quality and quantity of the homes they service. These employees are among Merry Maid's greatest assets, hence the initial franchise fee charged by Merry Maid also includes an exclusive and unique service worker selection program to make sure you bring the right people into your business.

Also included in the initial franchise fee is the equipment, supplies and exclusive Merry Maids' cleaning products to equip four two person cleaning teams. Each cleaning team, when properly trained and scheduled, can clean two to three homes a day.

Merry Maids exclusive Business Management System is yet another important factor that has attributed to the companies position of Market Leader.

Initial Investment

Franchise Fee: £9,950 (Plus VAT)
Equipment Package: £5,700 (Plus VAT)

TruGreen - (Back to Top)

TruGreen will treat the lawn with the very best fertilisers available anywhere. The materials the company uses are only available to professional green keepers and turf maintenance specialists, suggesting that they cannot simply be purchased in the shops, garden centres or DIY stores.

After providing lawn care since 1974 and serving three million residential and commercial customers ( USA ) TruGreen felt it was time to bring the service to the United Kingdom .

TruGreen is a franchise opportunity that allows enterprising individuals to enter the profitable and growing lawn care market and provide specialist services on the highest of levels. The franchise benefits from the respected professional standing of its parent company, ServiceMaster limited. It operates with low overheads and attractive margins and is an enjoyable and potentially rewarding business.

TruGreen offers a franchise that:

You can work from home, with low overheads, plus great Monday to Friday daytime hours.
Your franchise will be in the service sector with exceptional growth predictions.
No cash flow problems and high profit margins.
You just provide the quotations.
90% repeat customers, in your own territory.

As a franchisee of TruGreen you will:
Determine the lawn's overall health
List the different grasses and soil types in the lawn and their condition
Identify weeds, insects and/or diseases that appear to be affecting the lawn and recommend ways to control them.
Advise your customers of proper mowing and watering techniques.
Evaluate the potential of the lawn and recommend how TruGreen could help the lawn be the greenest, thickest, and healthiest it can be.

Initial Investment

Franchise Fee: £15,000 (Plus VAT)
Equipment Package: £10,500

SAS Franchise opportunity - (Back to Top)

When a family or a business suffer a disaster emotions run high. ServiceMaster accredited services are the UK 's major provider of restoration services which help limit the damage and curtail potential loss. (Prompt cleaning following a fire or floods pays dividends all round).

Since 1959 ServiceMaster have been helping established independent franchise owners throughout the country and there are now well over two hundred businesses in the network. What this means is a unique ability to respond to customers anywhere in Great Britain .

If you are looking for a secure business that is proven, satisfying and profitable then a ServiceMaster SAS business may be worth some serious consideration.

The franchise license fee includes a comprehensive training program that involves pre-study, two weeks residential training plus a one week practical training followed by launch assistance and on going support.

Initial Investment

Franchise Fee: £11,500 (Plus VAT)
Equipment Package: £12,500 (Plus VAT)

Contract Services - (Back to Top)

As a ServiceMaster Contract Services Franchisee you will provide daily, weekly or monthly cleaning services for financial institutions, retail outlets and many other commercial premises. You will have access to a market where millions of square feet of buildings have to be cleaned no matter what - a virtually recession proof industry.

ServiceMaster believes that training is the key to the performance of management supervisory and technical personnel and provides thorough initial training followed by regular re-training sessions designed to upgrade technical and human skills.

Every day ServiceMaster serves 30,000 businesses providing daily housekeeping and a range of services including:

Carpet Cleaning Carpet Soil Proofing
Carpet Static Control Concrete Cleaning and Sealing
Furniture Cleaning Furniture Soil Proofing
Odour Control Resilient Floor Maintenance
Wall Cleaning Wood Floor Care and Specialised Cleaning Services

Initial investment

Franchise Fee: £16,500 (Plus VAT)
Equipment Package: £11,250 (Plus VAT)

Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning - (Back to Top)

There are in excess of two hundred ServiceMaster ResCom businesses established throughout the United Kingdom carrying their expertise cleaning services to a wide range of domestic and commercial customers as well as carpet and upholstery manufacturers. As a ServiceMaster ResCom franchisee operating in your local community you will be thoroughly prepared to deliver the services quickly and responsibly within homes, offices, banks, hotels and in fact anywhere carpets and upholstery can be found, representing your business and the ServiceMaster name with the highest standard of professionalism.

If you are looking for a secure business that is well proven, satisfying and profitable then a ServiceMaster ResCom Service business may be right up your street. A comprehensive in house training programme has been compiled and developed by the ServiceMaster's specialist operations team to assist you in your new business.

Initial Investment

Franchise Fee: £9,250 (Plus VAT)
Equipment Package: £12,500 (Plus VAT)

Furniture Medic - (Back to Top)

Furniture Medic know what makes an unqualified success and are proud to offer the right kind of person a number of new home based franchises throughout the UK.

With a FURNITURE MEDIC franchise you'll have the autonomy to run your own business - but you'll never be alone. If you've got the motivation, enthusiasm and commitment then Furniture Medic can provide a business format that is proven to work.

The Furniture Medic franchise includes:

Providing forty four years of service to the British public ServiceMaster are acknowledged as leading the way in home and office furniture cleaning and repair services. ServiceMaster is proud to announce this addition to its existing portfolio of furniture repair/restoration, vinyl repair, French polishing/scratch repair, leather repair, UPVC repair and on-site fabric and framework repairs. Through patented techniques FURNITURE MEDIC'S environmentally friendly applications allow for restoration of wood and furniture at a fraction of the replacement costs.

The market for these services is extremely large and as well as ServiceMaster's corporate relationships with major insurance companies, furnishing manufacturers, furniture importers, club catalogues plus furniture providers on the internet, and many retailers providing work opportunities, local customers like pubs, restaurants, clubs, car dealers, schools, cinemas and nursing homes are an ongoing source of business.

FURNITURE MEDIC franchisees enjoy unique applications such as:

•  Deluxing
•  Magic Strip

Initial Investment

Franchise Fee: £16,000 (Plus VAT)
Equipment Package: £10,000 (Plus VAT)

Disclaimer of financial projections
These projections (forecasts) of sales, profits and earnings are illustrative only and should not be considered or relied upon as the actual or potential sales, profits or earnings which will be realised but you. we do not quarantine nor do we represent that you will or can expect to attain any specific amount or range of sales profits or earnings from the operation of the advertised businesses. Actual results vary from operation to operation and we cannot estimate the results that any franchisee may achieve.