110
Franchises from £20,000 to £50,000
Select Franchising
Investment level:
£31,750 plus working capital
Website:
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www.selectfranchising.co.uk
Email:
c.putnam@select.co.uk
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07810 555 634
classification:
Recruitment
three locations by reinvesting in the
business, concentrating on a quality service
to their clients and sheer hard work and
determination with their teams.
They are excited about continuing
to develop their businesses in 2009:
“We’ve come a long way in a short time.
Things are never certain, especially in
the early life of a business and we have a
long way to go, but we’ve made a great
start and redundancy feels like a distant
Lorraine and
memory already.”
Graham Rowan
Select Franchising’s proven model offers
a choice of three established and unique
brands: Select Appointments (of ce
The best thing that
staff), Parkhouse Recruitment (industrial,
technical and engineering staff) and Select
Hospitality (hospitality staff).
happened to me...
Many of Select’s franchise partners have
invested in multiple brands and locations,
which is testament to their belief in the
A former distribution operations director found that
business model.
Select is the only recruitment franchisor
agreeing redundancy was the ideal platform to becoming
recognised as a Sunday Times Top 100
company, and is ultimately part of the
a success with Select Franchising
second largest HR services company in
the world.
W
HEN HE was agreeing type of business we wanted to run – and
“Select
Approaching its third decade of
redundancy terms with his my wife Lorraine and I then set out to operation with 84 franchised of ces,
Franchising
employer of 20 years in 2006, achieve it.” Select has won awards for Best
Graham Rowan could not imagine that This led the Rowans to look at a wide
offered a Franchisee Marketing Support and Best
only three years on, he would be a proud range of business options. They looked
exible and
Franchise Recruitment Team. It is also an
franchise partner of Select Franchising and at many potential franchises and chose active member of the British Franchise
professional
successfully running nine franchises across Select Franchising, a leading recruitment Association and the Recruitment and
Scotland. franchisor.
franchise
Employment Confederation.
He has found that redundancy was the “We liked the idea of being able to
opportunity
Its proven franchise model gives access
driver for a number of positive changes. drive our own success and having the
and all the
to a polished corporate infrastructure
“Having enjoyed a career at Prudential exibility of running our own business,” including industry leading systems,
(and Scottish Amicable) for over 20 years says Graham. “Select Franchising appealed
support
marketing resources, debt factoring and
in various senior roles,” he says, “I decided to us as they had the best-developed scale
we needed
business expertise, together with an
not to apply for any of the roles on offer franchise offering. They offered a exible
to start
ongoing commitment to your success.
in the company restructure carried out and professional franchise opportunity The comprehensive training programme
in 2006. I had been keen to run my own and all the support we needed to start
achieving
and ongoing support means no previous
business for a few years and agreeing achieving results from day one.” On a day-
results from
recruitment experience is required.
redundancy provided the ideal platform to to-day basis, Mr and Mrs Rowan bene t
day one”
Select is currently looking for passionate
start out on my own. from HR and payroll services, staff training individuals to become franchise partners
“I think it is important for people to and development, business and marketing operating their own local recruitment
realise that they don’t need to be victims support, 60-day invoice discounting and business in territories throughout the UK
– it’s not always easy but they can take franchisee seminars. that complement the established network.
control. By doing this, I shook off the They opened their rst Select For more information, people can
negative perceptions normally associated Appointments of ce in Glasgow in contact David Buist on 07810 555 634
with redundancy and viewed it as a golden December 2006. Since then, they have or
d.buist@select.co.uk or visit
opportunity to really think about what built the business to nine franchises over
www.selectfranchising.co.uk. ■
April 2009
www.businessfranchise.com
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