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Big business
With Dublcheck’s 21-year track record of getting sales for franchisees, this is your opportunity to join a huge industry worth more than £3billion. Here’s what a few Dublcheck franchisees have to say
INVESTMENT LEVEL: £14,000 – £190,750 D
ublcheck is the franchise where you don’t need to do any selling unless you want to. Dublcheck obtains all the business for franchisees, so they
know exactly what turnover they are going to get. This enables franchisees to concentrate on looking after their customers, instead of wondering where the sales are going to come from. “It’s like a brick-building business, once you have one contract you keep building – so you know exactly what you are going to invoice every month,” says Carol Stewart- Gill, founder and chairman of Dublcheck. The UK commercial cleaning sector is worth more than £3billion and Dublcheck has seen a substantial increase in turnover, despite the ‘doom and gloom’ climate. Why? Because everywhere you look buildings need cleaning. The Dublcheck
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system puts its new franchisees on the road to success by actually getting the business for them. Commercial cleaning is one of the best industries to join because the market is more robust and recession- resistant than many others. Founded in 1993 and having been
awarded the 20th Fastest Growing Private Company in the UK, according to Richard Branson’s Virgin Fast Track One Hundred and The Sunday Times, Dublcheck now has more than 100 franchisees and is looking for more capable and motivated people to join the national network and benefi t from the proven and successful business model. “There is nothing quite like commercial cleaning. This is a really exciting opportunity for franchisees because the growth and profi t potential can be maximised using the experience, knowledge and systems we at Dublcheck
have developed,” says Carol. Dublcheck franchise owner Graham
Hey (previously managing director of a manufacturing business) joined Dublcheck on a £48,000 turnover package and is now turning over £400,000, increasing turnover in the last 12 months by 30 per cent. Franchisee Joanne Bennett says: “I decided to leave my job because my position in the bank became too big. I was operating at an international level and was interested in working within a personal and local environment. Once I met the Dublcheck team, I found the concept of commercial cleaning very appealing.” Sonal and Mitesh Patel went for the £26,000 package. Mitesh says: “Sonal and I can’t believe two years have passed since we decided to join this great franchise. We both wish we had done this years ago.” Stuart Weatherill, previously a self- employed salesman, joined on a turnover
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