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I am an entrepreneur with over 24 years experience and a Director of Franchise UK. Franchise UK, the UK's largest franchise directory. I love working with franchisors & small businesses & promoting & supporting entrepreneurship. I am married with two children and enjoy keeping fit, golf and time with my family.

Property Pioneer Poised For Franchise Pinnacle

BusinessBroker.net announces that it has been acquired by Landmark Communications, Inc. The acquisition signals BusinessBroker.net’s commitment to continued growth and investment on behalf of its valued clients. Launched in 2000, www.BusinessBroker.net is now one of the most heavily-trafficked marketplaces of businesses for sale, commercial real estate properties and franchise opportunities on the Internet. Its advertising …

Get Jamba Juiced!

The Popular Chain Will Deploy eRestaurant Services’ Powerful Enterprise Solutions to Manage its Back Office Operations and Supply Chain. Jamba Juice Company the category-defining leader in healthy blended beverages, juices and good-for-you snacks, has selected Altametrics, the leading provider of enterprise solutions to the foodservice industry, to deploy the eRestaurant Services solutions throughout all company …

Fatherpreneurs Fast Tracking Business Franchises

Entrepreneurs with families are not the absent fathers they’re often thought to be, according to Business.com’s recent survey conducted in time for Father’s Day, June 18. The survey is a snapshot of today’s business owners with children that Business.com is calling “fatherpreneurs.” “Small businesses and entrepreneurship are alive and well in the U.S., with one …

Franchise Deal, Or No Deal?

Franchise Deal, or No Deal? As those who have closed hotel transaction can attest, purchasing a lodging asset can be a very complicated process. Finding the right hotel to buy, negotiating acceptable terms for purchase, securing attractive financing, and getting over the inevitable franchise hurdles, actually getting to the closing table can be difficult to …

FORMER METAL SMITH AIMING TO KNOCK YEOVIL OVENS INTO SHAPE

Somerset entrepreneur Martin McNeill is swapping blow torches for scourers by launching a specialist oven valeting business, Ovenu. Former metal smith Martin, 36, of Gillingham, will serve householders in Yeovil and the surrounding areas including Wincanton, Sherborne and Stalbridge with his environmentally-friendly valeting service. Ovenu’s valeting process is popular with householders across the UK, taking …

Don’t Lose The Plot Franchise “on the lot”

VinStickers™ Dealer Services, a new service for automotive dealers, is now available in select markets. The service preps vehicles for internet marketing – both on the lot and online – with minimal dealer involvement. VinStickers’ dealer service representatives handle VIN decoding, window stickering, photographing and Internet broadcasting of the dealers’ inventory. VinStickers™, LLC, the USA’s …

Rapid Reaction Franchise Squeegee Squad

Squeegee Squad, a window cleaning franchise company, is looking to partner with a reality-based TV production company to document their franchise development and their expansion into high-rise window cleaning. Squeegee Squad wants to work with a reality-based TV production company in order to document their growth as a franchise company and expansion into high-rise window …

The Corleone Business Franchise Model

The Corleone Business Franchise Model Business format franchising lends itself well to families wanting to go into business together, although they must all be pulling in the same direction and be competent enough for a family-run business franchise to be a success. With everything at stake if both of the main breadwinners in the family are …

Keen As A Whistle

Although cleaning franchises may make some people think of mops and buckets, they actually cover a wide range of products and services and many of them are taking advantage of changes in society and technological advances to achieve strong growth. In the commercial sector, companies have discovered that outsourcing cleaning services can be cheaper and …

Smile You’ve Got A Cosmetics Franchise!

Smile You’ve Got A Cosmetics Franchise! Al Tayer Group, a leading diversified business entity in the Middle East signed a franchise agreement with Able C&C Co., Ltd., a Korea based cosmetics company which has the brand ‘MISSHA’. With the UAE planned as the first market that will have a MISSHA store by the last quarter …

Plumb Jobs Rewarded!

Franchisees of Drain Doctor Plumbing were recognised for their achievements and contribution to the organisation’s growth and success over the past year at a special Gala Dinner award ceremony held during the company’s twelfth annual convention. Drain Doctor franchisees were flown out to the five star Golden Bay Beach Hotel in Larnaca, Cyprus for the …

Moon Mans 4 million pound Franchise

Moon Mans 4 million pound MoonEstates Franchise Francis Williams and his wife Sue claim to have raked in £4million in four years – by selling land on the moon. As well as offering lunar landscapes, the Williamses trade in plots on other planets, including Mars and Venus. Only this week astrophysicist Stephen Hawking warned that …