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interest in Britain’s
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posing the question - do we have
person who buys a
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one? According to government
licence to replicate a Simon Carpenter-Foster
statistics, small and medium
business system.
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people and contribute £369
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billion to UK’s economy every
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year. However, while we compare favourably with
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Europe in terms of the percentage of growing
their system.
companies, we still fall far behind the USA.
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John Hutton, Secretary of State for Business,
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out: “Britain has seen a significant increase in the
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numbers of small businesses in the last four years.
total turnkey system
We must now build on this success and ensure these
of brand, know-how,
small enterprises grow and take advantage of the training, methodology
new global markets.”
and support.
The franchise industry is currently estimated to
have helped of 33,500 small businesses to launch in
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‘franchisees’. These business owners are very much franchise system rights
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self-employed, yet by investing in a franchise licensed to the
licence they benefit from the opportunity to adopt a
franchisee, including
tried and tested business concept selling a product or
branding, know-how,
service with proven demand. They also receive
systems, territory and
comprehensive training in the operation of the
training - for which
business and support from a ‘franchisor’ company
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