Ways to win in the franchising world

Franchising is a special way of structuring a business relationship and an effective way to grow your business by expanding geographically without an extensive capital outlay. In addition, facilitating owner operators to join your business under a mutually beneficially commercial arrangement enables franchisees to focus on expanding their business not working in the business operationally.

In fact, in the 21st century franchising is more popular than ever. Recent studies cite there are approximately 1,160 Australian franchise systems and an estimated 79,000 franchise units in Australia.

According to The Franchise Council of Australia (FCA), the peak business organisation, providing a platform for franchisors, franchisees, business advisors and small to medium businesses in policy decisions, of these operating franchises they employ 470,000 direct employees nationally.