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Our client - Wagging Tails gets a Twitter Boost from Theo Paphitis
Hampshire‐based pet care franchise received a business boost from TV Dragons’Den star Theo Paphitis. On Sunday 13th January 2013, Lisa Suswain, Managing Director of Wagging Tails, tweeted Theo about her business during ‘Small Business Sunday’, an

News from RBS & Lloyds Bank
Interest rates cut by average 1% and 1.6% for smaller businesses. Arrangement fees abolished on £2.5 billion of new lending. Will save SMEs £4,000 on average loan RBS and NatWest announced today that they will use the new Bank of England funding scheme

In the Media
We are often the source that the media will seek for a comment or an article on situations that affect franchises or franchising.

UK Franchises
In recent years in the UK franchising has greatly increased in popularity. In the last year alone the contribution of franchised business to the economy increased by over

Looking For Franchise Opportunities?
Once you have decided that opening up your own franchise is a wise decision, you will need to decide what type of franchise you wish to open.

An Entrepreneurs Guide To Franchising
There are very many variations in franchise structures, for example, job franchises, solus franchises, management franchises, fractional franchises, area developer, regional developer, regional and master franchises.

Second Generation Entrepreneurs to the rescue!
Many venture capitalists, business angels and new entrepreneurs will understandably, be looking at the current economic climate with grim dismay.

Beating the doom and gloom
In all the daily doom and gloom about the state of the economy. One could be forgiven for worrying about what will I do if I lose my job or if my company has to shut down through a lack of business.

When the going gets tough - ATTACK!
Finding the right strategies to get through these difficult times is far from easy. The most common and immediate ones are cutting costs and consolidation.