Magazine Franchises

If you’ve been following our recent successes, you’ll know that we welcomed the dynamic Team Aujla in January to the Birmingham/Bromsgrove franchise territory, and the lovely Beverley Potts to the Teeside/Durham franchise territory in February.Now we have another addition to our OPC franchise family – the Cadwalladers!John and Michelle Cadwallader have purchased the North Wales franchise territory from previous franchisee Angela Lloyd – a longstanding franchisee with OPC. We’ll miss Angela and...

What a start to the year!We just finished settling the Aujla Team in place in the franchise territory of Birmingham and we’re off to the franchise territory of Teeside/Durham to welcome the lovely Beverley Potts into the OPC greeting cards franchise family!Beverley has worked for the Durham County Council for over 14 years but has always yearned for a something she could do for herself and after a considerable amount of research; she decided that OPC was where she would be able to do just that –...

Cathay Investments 2 Limited (Cathay) purchases The Original Poster Company Limited (OPC) franchise, a producer and distributor of greetings cardsOPC franchise produces a range of greetings cards, wrap, bags and displays, distributed through a franchise network to a variety of independent retailers and national groups around the World using the sale or return (consignment) method.About the acquisition of OPCCathay is purchasing OPC as part of its commitment to expand its distribution business. B...

OPC franchise network reaps benefit of new systemsWe’re barely past the half way mark of 2016 and already we’ve celebrated our 25th birthday, welcomed new franchisees, settled in Keith, our new Financial Controller, helped a number of our franchisees purchase their second territory and launched our long awaited cloud and iPad based consignment system - phew!We just caught our breath during Easter before we begun the roll-out of the new systems, ConsignPak and FAST, to our franchise network in Ma...

We welcomed in the New Year with Judit Folinek joining us having taken over the Canterbury franchise in December. Coming from Hungary, Judit not only had to learn the ropes of our greeting cards franchise but she also had to contend with driving on the left hand side of the road for the first time and figure out the complexities of roundabouts - all whilst driving a van for the first time too! Quite a challenge when you’re trying to merchandise stores and launch your new business. Now we’ve s...

When Ryan first started working, he always had it in the back of his mind that he wanted to have his own business, a venture that he could make something of one day and be proud of. For him, the franchise route seemed like the best option as the business model was already in place. He shares his journey with the Original Poster Company Franchise so far.“I chose the OPC franchise as the greetings card market is still very strong and growing each year. OPC had been around for a long time and that...