BF April 2010 Issue

Franchises from £20,000 to £50,000
Granite Transforam tions
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Investment level:
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Retail management, home improvement
“Practical experience is not essential,
however – you do not need to be an
experienced carpenter or joiner. What
you do need is ambition, a willingness to
learn and the ability to work hard.”
As a potential franchisee, you will
receive help setting up and ﬁ tting out a
showroom, most likely in a high street
location with nearby parking facilities.
The franchisee will be expected to
employ one or more people, including
a receptionist or administrator to deal
with customer and showroom enquiries
and an installer to ﬁ t the work surfaces
to the highest speciﬁ cation. This will
leave the franchisee free to focus on
generating business, as well as running
the overall operation.
Derek Delaney was one of Granite
Transformations’ ﬁ rst UK franchisees. He
bought his franchise four and a half years
ago after ﬁ nding out about the company
Solid foundations
at a franchise exhibition in Manchester.
The former salesman says he was
attracted to the Granite Transformations’
concept because it was, as he puts it:
Join the kitchen business with Granite
“Such a clever idea – I love the product
Transformations
and system. The product enhances a
kitchen and it does exactly what it says
on the tin.” He also immediately saw the
G
RANITE TRANSFORMATIONS sitting in the bank, so we ﬁ nd they are “It has potential of a franchise that taps into the
provides an advanced kitchen deciding to enjoy it by renovating
been very
UK’s reputation as a “nation of home
worktop and interior surfaces their homes. improvement fanatics”.
material, made from natural granite, “Besides, even if they could move the
rewarding in
Today, his Bolton business is thriving
quartzite or glass blended with high legal fees, stamp duty, removal bills and the sense I – so much so that Derek’s planning
performance polymers. Thanks to a estate agency charges add up to a chunky
am my own
on opening another showroom in
unique production process, the process ﬁ ve-ﬁ gure sum, even before shelling out Altrincham. Derek says he’s found a
is lighter, thinner, yet stronger than natural for getting the new house redecorated.
boss.”
promising site in a great location for
or engineered stone. This means that So spending money on transforming an his second showroom, and he sees
Granite Transformations surfaces can be existing home by upgrading the kitchen the development of his business into a
neatly installed over existing worktops adds value to the property.” multi-showroom concern as a long-term
and other surfaces, eliminating the mess Granite Transformations started project. Plans are already being drawn up
and debris of demolition and all the franchising in the UK in 2003 and now to open two more outlets in the north-
associated cost. During recessionary times, has 20 franchisees. It provides franchisees west in the next 18 months.
Granite Transformations has a proven with comprehensive training and support, “It’s been hard work building the
winning formula as it can offer kitchen and although certain attributes are prerequisites business, but it has been very rewarding
bathroom makeovers at a fraction of the for success. Danny says: “Becoming a in the sense that I am my own boss,”
usual price. Granite Transformations franchisee is he says. “I’ve always wanted to run my
Granite Transformations saw an not for everyone. It requires dedication, own business, but at my stage in life the
increase in sales in 2009, despite the perseverance and the determination to only way I was going to achieve this was
downturn. Its chief operating ofﬁ cer, succeed. You will also need a high level of through franchising; with a franchise all
Danny Hanlon, explains: “People are management and people skills, and some the business problems have already been
getting very little return on money that’s sales experience is also necessary. ironed out for you.” ■
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