2010 Edition of The UK Franchise Directory

The UK Franchise Directory 23rd edition is a starting point for anybody looking for a franchise. This publication, now in a user-friendly size, provides essential advice and guidance from industry professionals whilst listing over 1,400 UK franchisors and almost 200 Irish franchisors. You will find this award winning directory fundamental to your research and is an absolute must read when considering franchising.

Whether you are new to franchising or not, The UK Franchise Directory is designed to educate and help you find franchise opportunities. It is also invaluable to those considering expanding their business through franchising. Business format franchising is a business system that offers a wide range of opportunities for everyone to become their own boss. It works very simply, as a franchise is an agreement between two parties which gives a person (the franchise owner) the rights to a successful blueprint and system already in place for doing business (the franchisor). The franchise owner is someone keen to replicate that blueprint system locally and trade under the trade mark/trade name of the franchisor.

This publication will help you understand how business format franchising really works. Franchised businesses currently achieve over a 91.8% success rate, this has been found from recent studies conducted by Franchise Development Services. Franchising in the UK now has a market value of £4.5 billion turnover a year. It employs around a quarter of a million people in over 75,000 businesses. Further fascinating facts and figures can be found in this publication, explaining further benefits to owning or starting a franchise.

Keeping with tradition, the 23rd edition is broken down into three main sectors: Franchise Owner Advice, Franchisor Advice and Franchise Listings. The Advice and Guidance sections will provide you with a number of reader-friendly introductions on the key issues on franchising written by lawyers, bfa-affiliated consultants and franchise professionals. You will also find a useful 'Jargon Buster' to help you understand all the necessary terms you will encounter in your research.

Central to the directory is a valuable overview of every known UK franchise as well as international franchises. Since publishing the previous edition, there has also been a significant increase in the number of franchises in the specialised services sector. In response to this, we have now broken this down into Care Services, Children & Education and Pet & Animal Services to help you with your research.

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