The British Franchise Association has its headquarters in Abingdon, while TruGreen and Metro Plumb have franchises in the county. Oxfordshire has significant education and tourism industries, as well as a high concentration of biotech businesses and performance motorsport companies and facilities. Oxford is the sixth more visited city in the UK for international visitors.
There are numerous ways to make money running a business. Franchising is a way of running your own business, but with the training and support of an established national - or even international - company. There are hundreds of business opportunities that are classified as franchises operating in dozens of market sectors. Franchisors give full initial and ongoing training, so you don’t necessarily need any experience of the market you wish to enter. In addition, the success rate of franchises is many times greater than independent start-up businesses.