If you’ve been watching or listening to the news over the past week or so you can’t have failed to notice that Franchising has become rather fashionable; a ‘good news story’ amid the almost unremitting bleakness of the nightly bulletins. Last weekend’s British Franchise Show at Olympia garnered unprecedented levels of media coverage, including features on BBC Breakfast, Radio Four’s Today programme and Radio 2’s Chris Evan’s programme.  (more…)

Friday 20th and Saturday 21st March will see members of the Auditel Recruitment and Support Team at London’s Olympia hosting a stand at the British and International Franchise Exhibition. As always at these events, our aim will be to help you carry out that all-important research so as well as answering any specific questions you have about the Auditel opportunity our Business Development Manager, Ed Brewer, will also be presenting an educational seminar called “Being in business for yourself, but not by yourself”. (more…)

Left to right: David Brown, Robin Cockburn, Simon Kennedy, Charlie Tomlins, Martin Duhig, Barry Cutler, Jack Pokoj

Welcome to our seven newest recruits who have just completed the first client acquisition week of their 12-month initial training programme. We’ll be seeing them again in a fortnight for the technical part of their residential course and, of course, at regular intervals over the coming months for follow-up workshops, business reviews and local, regional and national meetings. It’s been great getting to know them all this week and we’re really looking forward to working with them in the years ahead.

With the UK economy in seemingly terminal decline and the media fixated on doom and gloom, how nice to read about about a business that’s bucking the trend and positively thriving in 2009. What’s more, it’s a business that’s making a positive contribution to the economy, creating new businesses and providing a valuable service that will help many others weather the current storm. (more…)