Win-Win Situation With OSCAR Franchises

Running her pet franchise for four years, Jean Ware from Basingstoke in Hampshire, took up a new OSCAR marketing initiative that has helped her to see the bigger picture on how to promote and refocus the image of her business.

“Although I’ve been running a successful business I knew that I could rely on OSCAR to assist with a new incentive and the introduction to a marketing team of experts has helped me to gain better results.

"The scheme is designed to establish good quality, long-term customers by concentrating my focus on nutrition combined with reliability. The benefits of my personal service inspired a refreshing new approach.

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Redundancy to Reward: Owning a Pet Franchise

Celebrating five years as an OSCAR franchisee, David Bass from Congelton, Cheshire still thoroughly enjoys working for himself.

“Prior to buying a pet franchise I spent 30 years with the railway network, then redundancy called a halt to my career. I was not ready to retire,even though there was an uncertainty as to what I could do. My first call to Oscar prompted an excellent response; everything was clear from the start. After establishing the quality of their products, I was assured that my investment was in good hands-taking advantage of their reliable support.

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Pet Franchise Owners Celebrate 15 Years' Trading

David and Dawn Jarvis from Hastings have grown up with Oscar – starting back in 1996.

With little knowledge of franchising and the pet food industry, David’s 23 years in banking meant he was about to embark on a life-changing experience. Ideally, this was for himself and Dawn to join forces and make a go of working together for themselves and their family.

Franchising has given them the opportunity to succeed in business, while living family life to the full. Oscar stood out from the crowd, even in those days, and while the pet franchise has undergone a series of changes in terms of development, the basics remain proactive and innovative towards business and pet food manufacturing.

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Career Change; Buying a Pet Franchise

David Graham spent 33 years of his working career in the steel industry, an industry that was constantly changing, enough to convince David it was time to move on and buy an OSCAR pet franchise.

David says, “I had reached the end of the road in a job that I had started from leaving school. There were changes in responsibilities throughout that time but circumstances within the company encouraged me to reconsider my future. I’d dreamt of running my own business but lack of knowledge restricted my decision.

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OSCAR Franchise Case Study

Thanks to Tracy Berry's mum she found her vocation, her mum's faith in OSCAR, as a customer, was enough for Tracy to realise that her life was about to change when her area of Hertford was in need of a pet franchise business.

Tracy Berry says, “I always wanted to work for myself but had no idea of where to begin or what to do – until OSCAR came along. To realise that franchising offered the security and support of a larger organisation in the public domain I found confidence.

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