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Family + franchise = success

Wednesday, January 5th, 2011
If you want to predict the success of a franchise, one area that is particularly important, but often overlooked, is family support. Even when only one member of a family is directly involved in the business, support from the rest of the family is still critical. Include them in your decision to ... Read more

10 Things to Investigate Prior to Buying an Existing Business

Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
Considering buying an existing business? When you buy an established business, the business is up and running and all you have to do is sign the papers and pick up the key and you are set to go – right? Wrong. At present, the economic cycle is moving out of a recession, and this could have had a ... Read more

4 Top Reasons to Buy a Franchise in 2011

Tuesday, December 21st, 2010
Considering whether to buy a franchise now? To claim that no franchise anywhere has taken a hit because of the recession would be going off half-cocked, because undoubtedly all kinds of businesses have suffered in recent months. Still, in spite of the downturned economy, franchises have proven to ... Read more

Franchising New Zealand survey 2010

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
Despite the hardships faced by business over the past two years, the franchise sector is in pretty good shape. That’s according to Franchising New Zealand 2010, the first survey of franchising to be conducted here for seven years. Some of the highlights in the survey show that, despite ... Read more

Smart launches home office franchise

Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
New franchise available - meeting the business market Over the last six months we have been contacting bookkeepers throughout New Zealand to gauge interest in our office based franchise. Did you know there are more than one thousand bookkeepers working from home? The feedback we got was that ... Read more

Fewer jobs, more self employment

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
Jobs decline for second consecutive quarter Hot off the press – the latest labour market statistics released by Statistics New Zealand show that in the year ended June 2009 the number of seasonally adjusted jobs decreased 2.9 percent. This is the largest decrease since the NZ Statistics LEED ... Read more