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What a show!
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Franchise
“I
S THAT really him?” echoed If you’re looking for inspiration and
through the ever-growing fresh business ideas, turn to Take Ten:
EDITORIAL & PUBLISHING
crowd at last month’s National New Launches, page 130.
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Franchise Exhibition in Birmingham.
column
Alison Ledger
‘Where’s his moustache?’ another added. Entrepreneurial types may be 2
editor@businessfranchise.com
Children’s TV star Magnus Scheving, a.k.a. concerned franchising isn’t about
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Sportacus from BBC’s LazyTown, was earning the big bucks, but Carol Davis
“Sportacus SUB EDITOR
demonstrating impressive handstands and puts such fears to rest as she looks at from BBC’s
Vesna Siljanovska
vesna@businessfranchise.com
press-ups for queuing parents eager for an multi-unit franchising, a growth sector
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LazyTown
autograph. Magnus was there to promote despite the recession. See page 20 for
ART EDITOR
was demon-
FitKid’s LazyTown franchise licence (page more. McDonald’s could also satisfy big
Adrian Lincoln
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8), a business that specialises in children’s ambitions, discover how on page 18. strating
adrian@businessfranchise.com
fi tness – just one of the many exciting
impressive PUBLISHING DIRECTOR
IT
opportunities on offer. Whoever you are, with whatever
handstands
Tracy Shah
dreams, franchising will have something
Chatting to visitors, many were amazed for you. I’ll let you get reading…
and press-
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PORTFOLIO MANAGER
at the vast variety of franchises available,
ups...”
Michael Seaman
ED
providing everything from a rock school
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to cleaning, egg-free cakes to business
michael@businessfranchise.com
coaching, and fast food giants to a unique
offering from Highlight Pyrotechnics that
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sees franchisees planning, rigging and fi ring
Nathalie Storey
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a fi reworks display! Franchising is a great
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way to get into this sector as fi reworks
companies shell out £100,000 a year
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to be legally compliant, a cost which is
Louise Sym
absorbed by the franchisor, allowing you
020 8394 5283
to snap up a franchise for around £28k Alison Ledger
louise@businessfranchise.com
(see page 62). Editor
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Magnus Scheving
November 2009
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