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 UNITED KINGDOM FRANCHISE NEWS ARCHIVE
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easygates, LLC and easyhome(TM) Master Franchisor Promotes Two Officers to Co-President. Bud Gates, Chairman and CEO of easygates, LLC announced the promotions of Ladd Welch and Chris Prater to Co-Presidents of easygates, LLC. They will share the office of the President with Ladd as President of Operations and Chris as President of Finance and Sales. .... [more]
17/11/08
Boss who left 150 brides in lurch after closing firm opens new shop. Wedding shop bosses who caused heartbreak for 150 brides by shutting shop set up a new bridal firm just weeks later. .... [more]
16/11/08
Coffee house chain looks at Buckingham. Buckingham Town Council has supported a planning application which could see national chain Costa Coffee come to the town. .... [more]
12/11/08
How Subway overtook McDonalds. It is one of the UK's fastest growing major fast-food chains and has just sneaked past McDonalds to hold the largest number of outlets in the UK and Ireland, yet Subway remains an underground success. .... [more]
9/11/08
M&S profits down more than 30%. Marks & Spencer has reassured investors that it has no plans to slash its dividend despite reporting first-half profits down by more than 30%. .... [more]
4/11/08
M&S's Rose expects tough Christmas as shoppers cut out frivolous buys. Marks & Spencer's Sir Stuart Rose said today he was hoping for a "decent" Christmas but expects people to shop sensibly rather than splash out on "frivolities" as Britain slides into recession. .... [more]
30/10/08
Black tie dinner for the best franchisees. A glittering black tie gala dinner and prestigious awards ceremony was held at the International Convention Centre (ICC) in Birmingham for nine franchisee finalists. The finalists sat anxiously waiting to hear the results of the celebrated 2008 bfa Franchisee of the Year Awards. .... [more]
28/10/08
70-year-old McDonald's worker retires after 26 years. A McDonald's worker who is retiring after 26 years says she stayed in the job so long because her youthful colleagues helped her to stay feeling young. .... [more]
23/10/08
Franchises benefit as economy falters. With daily forecasts of further job losses, what appears to be bad news for employees could turn out to be good news for franchising. Interest in franchising increases during a downturn as more people find themselves out of work but with a cash lump sum. .... [more]
20/10/08
Franchise wins on customer service. Belvoir Lettings founder Mike Goddard didn’t have lofty ambitions for the residential property management business when he started it in the mid-nineties but the growth the company experienced during its first year encouraged him to franchise it. .... [more]
20/10/08
Coffee Republic loses flavour. Coffee Republic yesterday said a "toughening climate" was responsible for a recent fall in sales. The chain's like-for-like sales for the six months to the end of September dipped 0.2 per cent. .... [more]
18/10/08
High street names ‘safe’ in crisis. Icelandic retail investor Baugur yesterday insisted its roster of UK high street businesses was not under threat from the banking crisis engulfing the Nordic country. .... [more]
7/10/08
Bhs full-year profit down 40 pct and no dividend. Bhs Group, the department store chain owned by billionaire Philip Green, posted a 40 percent fall in full-year operating profit on Tuesday, and for the fourth year running Green decided not to take a dividend. .... [more]
7/10/08
Taking the pizza – and giving pasta. Hitting the hut will never be the same again. For pizza is no longer going to feature in the name of one of Britain's best-know chains of eateries. In an effort to overhaul the company's image – and its menu – Pizza Hut is changing its name to Pasta Hut. .... [more]
7/10/08
Franchise consultants open first North office. Manchester-based Franchise Development Services (FDS) Northern has set up shop in Sunderland to advise companies considering the franchising route to expand their business. .... [more]
29/9/08
Domino's Pizza sales flourish as consumers turn to eating in. The credit crunch is turning out to have a cheese and tomato topping for Domino's Pizza, with the chain reporting rising sales as customers shun eating out in favour of ordering in. Sales across the 535 Domino outlets in the UK and Ireland rose by 17.8% to £83.3m in the 13 weeks to last Sunday. .... [more]
29/9/08
Laura Ashley brightens up a gloomy market. Retailer Laura Ashley has reported higher half-year earnings, as increased clothing sales offset a slump in demand for furniture and decorating products. .... [more]
25/9/08
Subway plans schools outlets. Fast-food sandwich franchise Subway is set to open shops in Scottish schools and hospitals, it emerged yesterday. .... [more]
22/9/08
Franchising could safeguard SMEs through credit crunch. Franchising could be the answer for potential business owners made wary by the credit crunch, a successful local firm has said. Bromsgrove-based Mr Electric has seen a large influx of new franchisees joining the electrical services group since the start of the year, despite the difficult financial conditions. .... [more]
9/9/08
New CEO to head up nationwide roll out of easyPizza. Online pizza delivery service easyPizza.com, part of Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou’s easyGroup, has appointed David Sweeney as its first CEO. David brings with him significant expertise in the Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) and franchise sectors. .... [more]
4/9/08
M&S 'whistleblower' gets the sack. A worker at Marks & Spencer (M&S) has been sacked after telling the media that the company planned to cut redundancy pay to staff. .... [more]
3/9/08
M&S hires Del Boy in attempt to ditch 'elitist' food image. The High-street giant Marks & Spencer has turned to Del Boy to broaden the appeal of its food offer during the credit crunch, marking the end of its upmarket voice-over on the "this-is-not-just-food" television advertisements. .... [more]
3/9/08
HiQ Experiences “High Level” of Franchise Interest. Mark Brickhill, the group managing director of Goodyear Dunlop, has released a statement commenting on the “high level of interest from ambitious businesses wanting to join us in investing in the future growth of HiQ” following the announcement of the company’s plan to sign long-term franchise agreements. .... [more]
27/8/08
M&S suspends pay 'whistleblower'. A worker at Marks and Spencer who "blew the whistle" on plans to cut redundancy pay for the firm's 70,000 staff is being disciplined by the company. .... [more]
27/8/08
M&S reviews redundancy benefits. Marks & Spencer is in talks with staff representatives about changing benefits surrounding redundancy for UK workers. .... [more]
19/8/08
160 jobs created by McDonald’s. McDonalds's has announced plans to create more than 160 jobs in Reading as part of its aggressive expansion drive. .... [more]
19/8/08
Cinnabon Sets Sights on Europe. Snack giant FOCUS Brands is breaking into the European market with a new Cinnabon store in London. The restaurant is the first of 40 stores slated for the country. .... [more]
13/8/08
Decision to franchise is perfect sense. Simply Out of School is almost out of the five-year danger zone during which 60% of businesses make insufficient returns to survive. Consolidation represents the safest option. Instead, the founders face the fresh set of challenges posed by expansion. .... [more]
13/8/08
Children’s clothes franchise opens. The opportunity to become Irish franchisees for fashionable children has been seized by Waterford husband-and-wife team, Trevor and Maeve Cooke, who have opened the first, of what they plan will be a chain of Orchestra outlets, at Georges Street in Waterford City. .... [more]
11/8/08
Supermarket chain secures €298k from former franchisee. RETAIL group Londis has secured a €298,000 judgment against a former Limerick city franchisee. The charge is listed in next week's Stubbs Gazette, along with more than €700,000 worth of judgments obtained by the taxman against nine individuals. .... [more]
8/8/08
Flourishing franchises buck trend. The region's franchise industry appears to be flourishing despite the gloom in the economy that has engulfed a number of other sectors. According to the latest Natwest/British Franchise Association survey, turnover in the industry hit £12.4bn last year despite the poor general economic outlook. .... [more]
6/8/08
McDonalds’ plan to recruit 4,000 for UK franchise. Fast food firm McDonald’s is creating more than 250 jobs in the West Midlands as part of its drive to recruit 4,000 employees across the UK in response to sustained growth. .... [more]
5/8/08
Supermac man buys Papa John's franchise. Fast food entrepreneur Pat McDonagh - who owns the Supermac's chain of eateries - has bought the Irish franchise for the US pizza parlour chain, Papa John's, for an undisclosed sum. .... [more]
29/7/08
Coffee Republic completes contactless payments trial. Coffeeshop chain Coffee Republic is to equip all its shops with contactless payment terminals following a successful four-month trial. The pilot was carried out at 16 outlets in Canary Wharf, Broadgate and Bluewater Shopping Mall. .... [more]
23/7/08
Domino's Pizza beats slowdown as diners choose to eat at home. Online sales of Domino's pizza have surged ahead of its forecasts, as its half-year profits and sales were boosted by diners shunning restaurants in favour of eating at home. .... [more]
22/7/08
Hard Rock wages 'below minimum'. Staff at one of the UK's best-known restaurants are getting paid £2.06 an hour - less than half the national minimum wage, the BBC has found. .... [more]
18/7/08
Run your van on fat from the pan. Soaring oil prices are squeezing small businesses and franchisors so hard that some are looking at cheaper alternative sources of fuel for their vehicles - including running vans on fat from the chip pan. .... [more]
15/7/08
10-year anniversary for franchise lawyer. Chambers and Co was set up by former businessman turned solicitor John Chambers in 1998 and has gone on to create more than 150 franchises, both in the UK and overseas. .... [more]
11/7/08
M&S chief wins vote amid protest. Marks and Spencer executive chairman Sir Stuart Rose has won a shareholder vote to reappointment him, even though 22% of investors did not back him. .... [more]
9/7/08
Coffee Republic chief executive steps down. Coffee Republic announced today that Steven Bartlett, the former rebel shareholder who ousted the company's founder, Bobby Hashemi, in October 2006, is to step down as chief executive. .... [more]
9/7/08
M&S 'set to face investor revolt'. Marks & Spencer is likely to face a shareholder revolt at its annual general meeting, a report suggests. .... [more]
6/7/08
Sales gloom sees M&S shares dive. Marks and Spencer shares have fallen by more than 20% after it warned a slide in consumer confidence had hit sales. .... [more]
2/7/08
Body Shop insider dealer is fined. An ex-computer technician at The Body Shop has been fined for insider dealing after hacking into management emails which warned of poor trading. .... [more]
1/7/08
Angry M&S investors set to vote against Rose at AGM. Some of the UK's biggest institutional shareholders are preparing to vote against Marks & Spencer's chief executive, Sir Stuart Rose, at this year's annual general meeting to signal their anger that he has also been promoted to chairman. .... [more]
16/6/08
Dream Doors wins Brand Builder of the Year. Troy Tappenden, founder of kitchen facelift company, Dream Doors, was ecstatic when his six-year-old business brushed aside fierce competition to clinch the coveted Brand Builder of the Year title at the BFA's Franchisor of the Year Awards in Mayfair just two weeks ago. .... [more]
10/6/08
Want a pizza the franchise action? Pizzas and millionaires may not seem to have anything in common, but the hundreds of entrepreneurs who own a Domino's franchise would beg to differ. One in five of Domino's Pizzas franchisees has sold enough cheese and tomato-topped bases to earn at least £1m and the chain's expansion across the UK shows no sign of abating, despite the credit crunch. .... [more]
8/6/08
Just loving being a fast-food franchisee. Franchising in the UK was worth £10.8bn last year and for some is a sounder business alternative than going it alone. According to the British Franchise Association in Wales, franchise businesses in 2007 had a total turnover of £510m. .... [more]
4/6/08
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