The National Franchise Exhibition at the NEC Birmingham proved to be a real team effort for Envirocare Maintenance Solutions.

The show, Envirocare’s first at the NEC, was well attended by prospective franchisees and Janine, Lindsay and Angie certainly did their bit to promote the company’s exciting franchise opportunity.  “We had a really great weekend,” said Business Development manager Lindsay Roxburgh, “we spoke to lots of interesting people, their reasons for considering a franchise varied – redundancy, business investment opportunities, a change of direction…but all really impressed with Envirocare’s franchise model”.

Financial Controller Janine Yates saw a different side to this year’s show.  “We came down to the exhibition last year when we were first considering franchising, just for a look at what it was all about, it’s quite amazing how far we’ve come in just 12 months.  Talking to people about the business just reaffirms the success of our years of hard work; we truly have something good to offer.  Although we’ve expanded considerably, we pride ourselves in holding onto the family ethos – everyone matters at Envirocare.”

David Yates, Managing Director of Envirocare has confirmed he and his Team will be attending this Regional Franchise Show. Commenting on this announcement David said “We have established our operations in the North East over the past 3 years and now have a significant customer base in this region, stretching from Noth Yorkshire to the Scottish Borders. Through this event and the enquiries we have already received from prospective Franchisees I’m confident we will have appointed Franchisee to cover the majority of the postcodes in the North East within the next few months. This will allow us to transfer the servicing of our existing customers in the North East to our Franchisees and undertake further marketing activity to further develop our business in the North East.”

David and his Team are looking forward to welcoming guests to the Franchise Show but will not be taking any bets no matter how tempting. There has been a lot of banter in the Envirocare Team about horses in the build up to the Grand National next week – but nobody on David’s team studies the form – well not of the horses!

More information to follow about this Franchise Show so please keep reading the Blog.

Paul Shipley, Franchise Manager of Envirocare has announced Envirocare will offer to it’s first 10 Franchisees exclusive terms including a reduced initial Franchise Fee of £34,400 + VAT (representing a discount of 20%) and access to funding that would require Franchsees to pay an initial deposit of £10,000 and payment of the balance, without application of interest, over a period of 36 months to Envirocare, thus removing the need to obtain funding from a bank. Commenting on this announcement Paul Shipley said the terms we’re being offered to help establish the Franchise Network in response to need of the business to deliver it’s services to a rapidly expanding client base across the UK.

He added future Franchisees would not be offered these terms and if funding was required would need to approach the Banks with whom he emphasised Envirocare have good working relationships reflected in their willingness to lend up to 70% of the initial cost of the franchise and working capital.

We have worked towards offering Franchises since the business was launched in 2005. Following the successful completion of an 18 month trial of our Franchise offering, we are now confident to proceed. Although economic conditions remain challenging we believe the performance of small businesses will help re-build the economy. We consider this is an ideal time to start a business and Franchising has a proven track record of business success.

I’d encourage anybody who is interested in our Franchise offering to attend one of our regular Discovery Days – the next one is being held on Saturday 20th March – places are still available and can be reserved by calling us on 0800 028 3329.