Business Franchise June

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Franchisenews
MAY 2008
Advantage for juice!
GreenThumb
restructures
■ BB’s Coffee & Mufﬁ ns has taken a food service operators within shopping
controlling interest in juice bar, Juice Junction. centres – BB’s investment and operational ■ GreenThumb has announced that
BB’s plans to incorporate the Juice Junction capabilities will help build the Juice Junction Jeff Williams (pictured), former franchise
offer alongside its New Zealand Natural brand into a major player. In some BB’s director is to become managing director.
premium ice cream range within its cafés and stores, Juice Junction will become an extra Stephen Waring who founded the
also plans store openings as a stand-alone branded offering alongside New Zealand business as a teenager in 1986 has now
concept. The company is targeting 20 existing Natural ice creams within the BB’s format. taken up the role of CEO and chairman
stores to take the new brand in 2008. Some existing Juice Junction stores in of the board.
‘Consumers’ interest in healthy food and Ireland will be remodelled to incorporate a The board has added two new
drink is growing all the time,’ says Michele small range of BB’s products. Juice Junction directors. Tim Evans, a GreenThumb veteran with over 14
Young, BB’s retail and brands director. will also be available to franchisees as a years’ operational and corporate experience in the business, is
‘We are aware of the growing trend standalone format. one. The other is Dave Grifﬁ ths, who joined GreenThumb last
towards juices and smoothies and this is ‘Juice Junction also represents an ideal year, and who will lend his considerable experience in the retail
the perfect complement to our wide range franchise for those wishing to enter the and construction industries.
of food and drink products. Our position food service market for the ﬁ rst time,’ Jeff Williams states that these moves are ‘a clear
as the premier coffee café operator in says Michele. ‘It is a simple and focussed demonstration of GreenThumb’s lack of complacency.’
shopping centres puts us in a strong proposition which has already proved itself The restructure is designed to secure even stronger growth
position to bring juices and smoothies to a popular with health conscious consumers within its 178 franchise outlets, while at the same time
very wide audience.’ and those looking for a refreshing drink. improving upon its already best in class support for its
Juice Junction stands to beneﬁ t from the This is an opportunity to launch into a franchisees as GreenThumb works towards its ﬁ rst milestone
BB’s management team’s experience as top market with a lot of potential.’ of servicing one million UK lawns.
GreenThumb has eight new branches already in 2008 to add
to the 170 trading at the beginning of the year, another 12 in the
pipeline and an increasing number of resales. Growth continues
to be steep, especially when coupled with customer numbers,
which are set to break the 300,000 barrier by the summer.
BF to sponsor bfa conference
■ Business Franchise magazine will be
the Ofﬁ cial Magazine Sponsor of the bfa
Conference 2008. Held at the Savill Court
Hotel in Surrey on July 3 & 4, the conference
brings together franchisors from all across the
industry for seminars, presentations and
networking opportunities.
The March care
■ Professional oven valeting service Ovenu is offering a helping hand to military families in
Aldershot faced with a major clean up operation as part of the Marching Out process.
Les Davis, who runs Ovenu Camberley, has launched a new service speciﬁ cally for
families living in army accommodation.
As part of the Marching Out scheme, military personnel who are being redeployed
have to leave their living quarters in immaculate condition. This involves the thorough
cleaning of all appliances, carpets, curtains and other ﬁ xtures and ﬁ ttings.
Les, 49, who is originally from New Zealand, operates his oven cleaning business in
the Camberley, Sandhurst, Farnborough, Farnham and Aldershot areas. He says: ‘Families
leaving military accommodation to be deployed elsewhere have a lot on their plate, and
cleaning ovens, microwaves and extractor hoods to the high standard required by the
army is no easy task. I can take away some of the hassle by offering a valeting service that
is guaranteed to pass the most stringent of inspections.’
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