Franchise case studies, advice and articles
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Case Studies
This section provides thirty seven real life accounts of people who have come from all different walks of life and decided to set up a franchise.
Each account gives a small profile on the person who has set up the franchise, and then asks them questions about how they came to owning and running this franchise.
At the end of each case study there is a section on setting up your own franchise in the same sector and provides a link to the franchisors brochure page.
The franchisors page explains more about the businesses core values and how to become a franchisee yourself. They tell you how they operate and give details on how much the franchise will cost, what the franchisee will get for their money and also an approximate net annual profit.
After reading about the options available to you, you can then contact the franchise to gain more in-depth information or navigate back to the relevant category or sector you were looking in for all the existing opportunities available to you.
This section of the website can help you to make a decision as to whether owning and running your own franchise is the right option for you, by reading other peoples experiences and reactions to the process of setting up and running the franchise on a day-to-day basis. This could assist you in making one the biggest decisions of your life a joy and not a regret.
- Card Connection franchisees: Cath Dorran and Margaret Roberts
- Cath and Margaret took control of the Glasgow & Argyll territory and haven't looked back.
- énergie Fitness For Women Franchisee - Kate Franklin
- For Kate, looking at the hobbies she loved has proved to be successful in her new business life.
- Helen Dowling and Exceptional Thinking
- Franchisor Helen talks about her niche marketing and business planning business.
- Richard Harrison and Jim’s Mowing UK
- Richard Harrison has been the UK director of Jim’s Mowing since it expanded into the country three years ago, and is tasked with making the UK operation even bigger than it is in Australia, where it was founded.
