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The University of Winchester recently invited the Dwyer Group, one of the world’s largest franchise organisations, to an event organised by its Business School to allow final year business students to present their pitch projects to a panel of industry experts. One of the experts on the judging panel was Joshua Barker of the Dwyer Group, who also took the opportunity to speak to many of the students about the importance of values in the business world and the advantages of franchising as a pote...

Allan’s military skills equip him well for plumbing career Allan Rook joined the Drain Doctor franchise team in 1994, bringing with him a wealth of experience and expertise from a career that has taken him around the world several times! From his Scottish birthplace, Allan’s family moved to a remote part of Western Australia, where he led a gloriously rural early life. Returning to the UK, Allan joined the Army at 18 where he became an aircraft engineer, going on to serve in the UK, Germany, M...

Ableworld Colchester and Ableworld Bridgend were the two main winners at the Ableworld Franchise of the Year Awards Dinner in March. The Awards Dinner was the high point of Ableworld’s two day Annual Franchise Conference held at Wychwood Park Hotel and Golf Club, Crewe. There were speakers from the industry as well as internal presentations from key Ableworld personnel. Ableworld has recently been awarded the prestigious Which Trusted Traders endorsement and representatives from Which wer...

Richard Scandrett has run the Drain Doctor Franchise in the franchise territory of Birmingham North and Wolverhampton for over eight years and now employs eight team members, servicing over 200 clients.  Before joining us in 2010, father of two Richard enjoyed a successful career in IT and telecoms sales roles, in addition to six years at Yellow Pages, before deciding to put his skills to work for himself.  Looking for a franchise business opportunity that would enable him to make...

Danayal Zia had been advising clients for more than 17 years with Standard Chartered Bank (SCB). He enjoyed the work but had lost the passion he once felt. When he found the ActionCOACH consultancy franchise, the buzz came back and he knew this was the franchise business for him. “My last assignment with the bank was in the City of London. The City culture just wasn’t for me and I started to look around for something different. When I came across ActionCOACH, I fell in love with the organisatio...

Here Andy Hemming reveals his ‘warts ‘n’ all’ story of his decade with the ActionCOACH consultancy franchise, overcoming the 2008 recession and how he grew his franchise coaching business to £60,000 income a month on just three days’ work a fortnight, so he could free up time for his family. “After four years working in Hamburg on the global strategy for Nivea, I needed to move back to the UK to support my family - both my parents were diagnosed with cancer and we had been told my eldest son ha...