Franchising News

The search is on to find Britain’s top-performing franchisees with the launch of the British Franchise Association’s Franchisee of the Year Awards 2007.This year’s theme is ‘customer focus’, with entrants having...

The UK small business community is still pushing the limits behind the wheel. According to new research from Bibby Financial Services, 28 per cent of bosses admit to eating and drinking...

Franchising is now worth a record £10.8 billion in the UK, according to the latest NatWest/British Franchise Association survey.The sector has now grown 44 per cent in recent years, taking the...

BT is encouraging small businesses to calculate their carbon footprint and explore ways of reducing their impact on global warming through a new website.BT’s carbon calculator at www.btplc.com/climatechange enables office-based companies...

Women living in the south west of England are 35 per cent more likely to be entrepreneurs than those in the rest of the country, according to new research.The findings are...

The entrepreneurial spirit of Britain’s students is not dampened by rising student debt. Students planning to set up a business after they finish university appear undeterred by the debts they will...

The search is on to find the UK’s best-performing franchisees with the launch of the annual British Franchise Association’s Franchisee of the Year Awards.The judges are looking for franchisees whose businesses...

Britain’s small businesses see the increasing might of their larger competitors as the most significant challenge to their future, according to new research from Lloyds TSB Business and the SERT team...