London House News

After the seasonal break it is now back to "business as usual" at London House. We are continuing to hold a number of follow up interviews from the NEC Franchise Show in October and are pleased to say that discussions are progressing with a number of prospective Franchise Owners. We have set training dates for later this month and more news on this in next month's newsletter.  

Some of you will know that when a new Franchise Owner joins us, the term of the agreement is for 5 years which can then be renewed, by mutual consent, for further 5 year periods. It is with much pleasure then that I can advise that 2 of our Franchise Owners have just renewed their agreements with us. Keith Bell (Glasgow) is one of our longest serving Franchise Owners having completed 10 years with us. Keith has now renewed for a further 5 years. Dave Williams (Central London) has been with us the longest of all our Franchise Owners. Dave has now completed 15 years and has also renewed for another 5 years.  

Many thanks to you both for your continued efforts and support

London House News

We have held a number of follow up interviews from the NEC Franchise Show last month and are pleased to say that discussions are progressing and deposit cheques being received from prospective Franchise Owners. We have set some training dates for later this month.  We have also held our Franchise Owners' Conference at the National Badminton Centre in Milton Keynes. The event gets bigger and better each year and is a great opportunity for our nationwide team to get together and share best practices as well as catch up with friends and colleagues. Our very special thanks go to not only our Franchise Owners but also our guest speakers from Franchise Development Services, UK Global, Chartis, The Federation of Small Businesses and The Martin Cliffe Practice.

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It has been a busy month at London House. Firstly, I am pleased to advise of two new Franchise Owners.

Andrew Beard  joins us from a background as a Senior Insurance and Re-insurance underwriter with considerable international experience. Andrew has taken over the Norwich postcode area from Ted and Linda Witton who have retired. Welcome Andrew. London House Services Norfolk

Also joining us is Graham Stowell who will be covering the Oxford postcode area. Graham is a QA and QC professional with UK and international experience with the Dept. of Health, Glaxo Smith Kline and Siemens. He is also a Director of a currency exchange and trading business. Again, welcome aboard.

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As mentioned last month we will be exhibiting at the NEC twice in October. The first event is the National Franchise Exhibition on 5th & 6th (stand number H65) and then we are back at the venue on the 9th and 10th for the Solicitors Group exhibition, LawAutumn NEC (stand number 10). Do please come along and chat to us, we would be delighted to see you.

We have recently attended the annual Credit Services Association conference. The conference had its highest ever attendance and it was great to catch up again with industry peers. A very informative conference from which it became clear that compliance and regulation is becoming ever more prominant in our industry. No bad thing.

Finally, the latest edition of The Score will shortly be arriving at your offices, but is now available on line. I hope you enjoy it.

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We continue to receive many enquiries from prospective Franchise Owners and we are pleased to advise that two of these now have progressed to the purchase of territories. The new owners are joining us next week for the start of their two week residential training, so more details on this next month when they should be up and running!

At Head Office we are also turning our thoughts to a number of up coming events. We will be exhibiting at the NEC twice in October. The first event is the National Franchise Exhibition on 5th & 6th and then we are back at the venue on the 9th and 10th for the Solicitors Group exhibition, Law Autumn NEC. Again, more details next month but for now if you would like to come along and chat to us at any of these shows then please make a note of the dates.

November will soon be here! That means our annual Franchise Owner conference is rapidly coming around again. We are beginning to put the day together for our team and are looking forward to another great day.

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As mentioned last month, we attended The Franchise Show at London's Excel Arena during February. This was our fourth year there, and we felt the best yet. We received a good number of enquiries and in our opinion the quality of the interested parties was very high indeed. We have already held a number of follow up interviews and more are booked in the diary.

Outside of the show, we continue to receive enquiries daily from prospective Franchise Owners and from here we have one applicant booked to join us for training in April. More details on this next month.

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February has been another busy month at London House. Last week we attended the Credit Services Association half year conference in Leicester. It was an information packed event, and very well attended. Topics covered included the recently introduced Financial Services Bill, The Edited Electoral Register and The OFT Debt Collection Guidance. The keynote speech this year was given by HM Treasury and covered the Government's proposals with regard to The FCA and future regulation.

This week we will be attending The Franchise Show at London ExCel. This will be our fourth year of exhibiting and this year's event promises to be bigger than ever. It is a great opportunity for prospective Franchise Owners to come and visit and have a chat about the London House network. For more details of the show, and get free visitor tickets, please click on the link.