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How does a franchisor determine the size of a franchisee’s territory?
Franchisors define trading territories using a variety of criteria, but here’s how it should be done. An established business will be able to assess its historical performance to work out what its market share has been, given an area containing a certain number of customers for the product or service. Bear in mind such customers could be defined simply by total population, population of a certain age profile, number of owneroccupied homes of a certain type, total number of small businesses, number of a particular type of business, or even number of households with gardens, young children or pets.Once it’s worked out how many potential customers it needs to enable a franchisee to meet its targets, the business will know how many potential territories there are in the country. It’s then a question of defining the boundaries of these territories, and this is often best done by using postcodes as it is possible to acquire data that outlines how many of a certain type of customer exist in a particular postcode. Add together enough postcodes to get the desired number in a territory, then repeat the exercise however many times is necessary to map out the entire country. Note, however, that circumstances change and the method should be kept under regular review.
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