Mar 12, 2014 | Clients in the Media, News
Steve Brown and TJ Sutherland, a father and daughter team, have just reached a whopping milestone. Reaching a tremendous £100,000 in sales, there’s no looking back for Steve and TJ as they continue to be one of Rosemary’s most successful franchise partnerships.
“We’ve loved the challenge of running our own business and reaching £100,000 in sales is just the icing on the cake. It’s nice to see a reward for all of our hard work and makes us want to keep pushing further to reach the next landmark. We can’t wait to see what the coming years have in store for us,” explains TJ.
“Just because we’ve reached this amazing level, it doesn’t mean we’re going to take our foot off the pedal. We have achieved so much since starting up our business and we’re not going to stop there. Who knows what we can achieve over the next few years. We have built our business to cover two franchise territories, we’re flat out busy and we’ve had to employ two bookkeepers to undertake some of our client work. Who knows where we’ll be in another two years’ time!” adds Steve.
Rosemary Bookkeeping delivers an intelligent bookkeeping service to SMEs, Accountants and Franchisors ensuring a consistency of delivery and high-quality work. Their practical, down-to-earth and friendly approach provides clients with information that enables them to understand and make decisions on their business, provides peace of mind that HMRC will be happy, whilst charges are fair and reasonable.
The Rosemary Bookkeeping franchise is based on a business concept that has been established and refined since 2002. The business offers a unique bookkeeping system within a fully-supported franchise package focused on providing flexibility to its owner with superb work-life balance potential.
The franchise is backed by four successful entrepreneur business women, Claire Watson-Bardot, Joanna Dennis, Sarah Carlile and Lisa Curteis who have over 60 years of business and bookkeeping experience between them. As an Associate Member of the bfa, Rosemary Bookkeeping has a proven ability to sustain a franchise network successfully.
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Mar 12, 2014 | Clients in the Media, News
HR Business Alliance welcomes applications from independent professionals for its license model as it launches across the UK.
HR Business Alliance is a collaboration of professionals within the human resources and business strategy fields. The work they do is centred on helping organisations to grow by making the most of the people resources in their business. HR Business Alliance coaches partner with SMEs to find practical suggestions for improvement, for the business and its people, connecting strategy to action.
HR Business Alliance has helped thousands of businesses in Australia and is now spreading its success across the UK and Republic of Ireland, South Africa and Canada. The UK business sector includes more than 1.1 million SMEs and is responsible for 10 million jobs. But many of those businesses struggle to make the profits and progress that they deserve because of the challenge of supporting and developing their key resource – their employees.
“We have proven that linking strategic goals with the actions of employees creates sustainability and growth and our business coach members provide the consultative approach to help business owners do just that,” explains Managing Director, Ann Mary Wardman.
“We are looking for independent professionals to take up our flexible licensing model, using it as an opportunity to strike out on their own or adding our comprehensive resources to their existing services as an additional revenue stream. With our support, you could be generating a turnover of £220,000 as a sole trader with the opportunity to build a team turning over a high six-figure sum, whilst enjoying the great networking benefits of being part of our membership,” adds Ann Mary.
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Mar 10, 2014 | Clients in the Media, News
Total Clean has gone from strength-to-strength since they started franchising in early 2013. This success doesn’t look set to slow down since very recently being shortlisted for a total of four awards at the UK’s prestigious Franchise Marketing Awards (FMAs).
The FMAs are designed to recognise the industry’s most innovative and effective marketing campaigns. The awards are judged by an independent panel of experts who reward organisations that have raised their public awareness and, as a result, achieved sustainable growth.
Since only launching the franchise in March 2013, Total Clean has recruited five new Franchise Partners to their network. These awards recognise the time spent developing and executing their franchise marketing campaign and the team at Total Clean are looking forward positively to what 2014 brings for their franchise network.
“We would have been happy to be shortlisted for one of these awards but to be considered for four is just amazing. We have hit our targets for franchise recruitment in the last 12 months and now being shortlisted for these awards further recognises the work that we put into our franchise recruitment marketing is really paying off. To win only one of the awards would be a fantastic achievement; for us but to be shortlisted for four is a genuine honour. We’re looking forward to hearing the results and working hard to make 2014 even more successful than last year!” explains Carlos Garcia, Managing Director at Total Clean.
Total Clean has operated in the commercial cleaning sector for 25 years, with a success that is based on an unrelenting commitment to service excellence and an obsessive attention to detail. It proudly boasts a 95% client retention rate. Among its many longstanding clients, it has the privilege of enjoying one client from the very first week of operation.
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Feb 27, 2014 | Clients in the Media, News
Baskin-Robbins is pleased to announce the release of single-store franchise opportunities in the UK. The single store investments require just £75k of liquid capital for a total launch cost of £150k, of which 50% will normally be funded by a high street bank.
“We have a great team here in the UK who are dedicated to helping franchisees grow their sales and profitability and with the introduction of our single-store franchises we are opening up the Quick Service Restaurant market to so many more people. Baskin-Robbins has just been listed 17th in the top 100 global franchises by Franchise Direct and we’re really not surprised! The list details the franchises which are performing best on an international level and we have beaten all other ice-cream franchises this year, as well as rising 5 places on last year,” explains Jim Johnstone, Baskin-Robbins’ UK General Manager.
For 65 years, Baskin-Robbins has been creating irresistible treats to make customers smile and feel good. Since their foundation in 1945, they have introduced over 1,000 unique, fun and much-loved ice cream recipes, frozen drinks, and ice-cream cakes. Their stores continue to be popular as their treats are an affordable treat for families. Baskin-Robbins sells in excess of 300 million scoops of ice cream each week across 6,700 stores in 50 countries.
“The single store opportunity also gives the team at Baskin-Robbins the chance to see how the store owner operates their store and to see what help they might need to go on to become great multi-store owners if they wish to do so – so it’s a win-win for both parties.
“We can only ensure that our brand continues to grow across the UK by getting the right franchisees on board and giving them the best support possible. Finding the right store location is key to a successful launch and each franchisee has a dedicated support manager to help with this,” adds Jim.
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Feb 4, 2014 | Clients in the Media, News
This month, Liverpool Football Club (LFC) have announced a multi-year partnership with the Dunkin’ Brands group, making Baskin-Robbins the official provider of ice cream to the club.
“We’re delighted to be joining forces with Dunkin’ Brands, one of the world’s most iconic names. Dunkin’ Donuts will be our official tea, coffee and bakery provider and Baskin-Robbins will be our official ice cream provider, we welcome both to the LFC family,” says Billy Hogan, Liverpool’s chief commercial officer.
This news follows announcements that the Dunkin’ Brands group are planning to open between 685 and 800 new stores worldwide in 2014 which is great news for Baskin-Robbins’ franchisees. This expansion worldwide will provide franchisees with even greater brand recognition both locally and nationally and help to bring in even more business.
“We believe a major contributor to our strong year-over-year growth is the disciplined approach we consistently take to improving franchisee economics,” says Chairman and CEO of Dunkin’ Brands, Nigel Travis.
Baskin-Robbins is the world’s largest chain of ice cream speciality stores operating in a market worth $1.8 billion. Since 1945, Baskin-Robbins have introduced over 1,000 unique, fun and much-loved ice cream recipes and frozen drinks including our famous ice-cream cakes. Baskin-Robbins stores continue to be popular as their products are an affordable treat for families and they sell in excess of 300 million scoops of ice cream each week across 6,700 stores in 50 countries.
Baskin-Robbins already have 100 stores in the UK and are now offering opportunities to investors with a minimum of £300k liquid capital to develop a multi-store portfolio. A typical area containing 5 stores has the potential to turnover £1 million in the first full year of trading with EBITDA of 10-15%.
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Jan 30, 2014 | Clients in the Media, News
Rosemary Bookkeeping’s new ‘client guarantee’ is revolutionising the franchise offering by ensuring new franchise partners have income from day one. The new scheme breaks the mould by providing all new franchisees with an initial client guarantee on completion of their 12-week training programme.
Dedicated to passing on the benefits of the scheme to new franchise partners as quickly as possible, Rosemary’s two newest recruits, Caroline O’Brien and John Lewis, have both received an impressive 25% of their current client base from the Head Office team.
The Rosemary Bookkeeping™ franchise is based on a business concept that has been established and refined since 2002. The business offers a unique bookkeeping system within a fully-supported franchise package focused on providing flexibility to its owner with superb work-life balance potential.
Caroline O’Brien, franchise partner for Coventry, trained with the Rosemary team in July 2013 and is well on her way to smashing her year one target of nine clients by July 2014. Just five months in and Caroline already has eight clients, two of which came from the Rosemary Bookkeeping Head Office under the guarantee scheme.
“The client guarantee was great for me in so many ways. On a professional level, this was my first limited company and therefore my first chance to use Sage in the ‘real world’. I also got the chance to use one of my extra training days to get some practical experience with the help of Claire Watson-Bardot the Training and Support Director at HQ. From a personal perspective, it gave me an added boost in that I could bring the story of this new client into my networking pitches, adding instant credibility to my business. Not to mention the less obvious but just as important fact that it really made me feel valued by the Rosemary team that they were prepared to offer this guarantee to me,” explains Caroline.
John Lewis opened his Sutton Coldfield franchise in April of 2013 and is already a huge Rosemary brand ambassador. A regular face at franchise exhibitions and Rosemary Bookkeeping™ Discovery Days, Jon was also crowned ‘Best Supporting Franchise Partner 2013’ at Rosemary’s annual Franchise Partner Forum and Awards in December.
“There’s no doubt that the client guarantee scheme has already been a huge success. We invest 100% in our franchise partners and this is just another level of support that we are proud to offer. It further highlights our commitment to them and their success as well as our own confidence in our franchise model,” explains Lisa Curteis, Franchise Recruitment Director
The Rosemary Bookkeeping™ franchise is backed by four successful entrepreneur business women, Claire Watson-Bardot, Joanna Dennis, Sarah Carlile and Lisa Curteis who have over 60 years of business and bookkeeping experience between them. The franchise responds to the increasing need in the UK for an affordable, professional bookkeeping service that supports both the client and the accountant. Rosemary Bookkeeping™ franchise partners work in harmony with their clients’ accountants, providing them with exactly what they need in the format they want, saving clients’ time and money.
This press release has created wide spread coverage on franchise related websites and social media. It will also be included in upcoming print publications. To find out how Coconut Creatives can help you generate great PR why not contact us!
Steve Brown and TJ Sutherland, a father and daughter team, have just reached a whopping milestone. Reaching a tremendous £100,000 in sales, there’s no looking back for Steve and TJ as they continue to be one of Rosemary’s most successful franchise partnerships.
