Oxford franchisee wins Franchisee of the Year award

Lorraine Thompson, who owns Driver Hire Oxford, is now an award-winning franchisee.

Thompson was crowned British Franchise Association/HSBC ‘Franchisee of the Year’ 2011 for the South West and Wales Region at a gala dinner in Birmingham.

The awards are also supported by Express Newspapers. The judges praised Thompson’s commitment to setting standards in best practice and increasing the services offered by her office.

Lorraine was also recognised for her partnership with a local prison which provides offenders with work experience prior to release.

Lorraine purchased her franchise in 1995 and has grown the automotive recruitment franchise business so that it now finds work for over 300 local people every week, employing five staff.

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Recruitment Franchise Leads Business Support

CNA International has hailed a busy september with two new Franchise Partners starting their own CNA International executive search recruitment businesses.

Lee Mason and Stephen Pugh have both chosen to invest in the CNA International business to start their own executive search recruitment franchises citing as a  primary reason the market leading business support systems CNA International offer as part of the Pertemps Group.

Lee is taking on the ‘Banking and Financial’ sector, following ten years’ experience in employed executive search roles. Lee was looking to start his own business franchise and earn more of the billing he was creating!

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Retail Manager Joins Recruitment Franchise

A former retail manager found her skills transferred well to running a recruitment franchise.

Liz Dillon had been an operations manager within the retail industry. Having started out as a management trainee she worked her way up the career path and her roles have been very varied over her 10-year career.

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Liz Dillon: My brother David had worked for the company owned side of the business in recruitment and had decided he wanted to take an Antal International franchise and launch his own recruitment company.

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HGV Recruitment Franchise News

Find out about Driver Hire's management franchise opportunity, which offers a minimum potential salary of £100k, at a forthcoming open day.

Interested in talking to ambitious and self-motivated individuals, the HGV driver recruitment franchise seeks people who want to run a business with the benefit of an established brand name, operational expertise and comprehensive support. 

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Spotlight on Health Care Recruitment Franchise

When 247 Professional Health opened in Southport in December 2008 it didn’t have an office, any equipment, staff or clients.

Fast forward less than 12 months and the health care recruitment franchise is one of the largest independent suppliers throughout Sefton and Merseyside of staff to residential homes, care homes, rest homes, EMI care homes, learning disability centres, mental health centres and hospitals.

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