Franchising Advice My 30 Years as a Franchisee

 

 

THIS TAKES ME THROUGH MY CLAIMS DIRECT FRANCHISE TO THE START OF MY JOURNEY WITH RAINBOW INTERNATIONAL.  The start of my 20 year association with the Dwyer group from how it almost ended in training to starting to build a decent business.  After being forced to sell my Highway Glass franchise I was a bit lost as to what I could do next. A company called Rainbow International had visited Highway as they wanted to replicate their success within the insurance industry, in their own field cleaning. I visited them but was not impressed and did not get the feeling they would go for it in the same way as Highway did. After some time off I found Claims Direct who had suddenly burst on the scene as an injury claims company. They were certainly dynamic from start-up to being listed on the Stock Exchange in a couple of years. The idea was we visited people who have suffered an injury and handled their claims gathering all the evidence to send off to a solicitor. If the case was accepted ...

Franchising a case for regulation  Straight away I would like to say that to my knowledge most of the franchising industry is honest and above board.  After starting to write about my 30 years as a franchisee I have been thinking about some of the things that go on in franchising and the need for regulation. Below is just one example it is an advert for new franchisee's taken from the franchise companies main site. I would like to add my franchise was terminated after 20 years with the group. I am challenging them through the courts as all reasons were incorrect and easy to prove. I am presenting the facts though and trying not to be biased. I have shown this advert to the British Franchise Association, Mr Electric UK, the worldwide director well president as it is an American company and the President of the group as a whole. This is still on their website though and none of them have replied to me.  After reading it you may think  1 People will phone franchise...