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- Great lifestyle, flexibility and a highly profitable business >
- Unaffected by the challenging economic environment >
- C N A International join the stable >
- The outlook for franchising - master of your own destiny >
- Budding female 'dragons' urged to leave lair >
- Survey finds average six week recruitment gap >
- Half of employees would rather work from home >
- Social networking sites are good for business >
- New Network Healthcare office set to open >
- jobs@pertemps are winners again! >
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- New appointments at Network Brand Partnerships >
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June Newsletter & Breakfast Invitation
The June e-newsletter was despatched today with an invitation for a buffet breakfast meeting before the East Midlands Franchise Show on Saturday 20th June. To read the newsletter please select the link below:
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New Franchise Partner – Gavin Chase
Gavin has taken the plunge to setup his own CNA International franchise business. Pictured below with Debbie Smith and Tim Watts, Gavin comes from a background in recruitment. Trained by James Caan, Gavin has been a franchisee in the past owning and running his own Humana International franchise.
Gavin choose to start his own CNA franchise as he recognised the huge opportunity currently available to setup his own executive search recruitment company at the bottom of the market. Clearly in the middle of a recession the only way is up, it is just a question of when!
Read more on Gavin’s Case study: Gavin Chase – CNA International Franchise Partner Case study >>
Left to right: Debbie Smith, Gavin Chase, Tim Watts
A successful Open Event
The Network Brand Partnerships Open Event held at the Pertemps Meriden Hall earlier this week was a great success.
The BFA (British Franchise Association) and HSBC Bank provided advice on selecting and financing the right franchise business. Prospective franchise partners then went on to find out more about the different business opportunities offered by Network Brand Partnerships.
Paul Hanke, Managing Director of Network Health and Social Care, and CNA Franchise Partner, Nick Thompson, both gave some real life accounts of what is involved in running each of the businesses. There were plenty of questions!
One thing that did come across very clearly was the incredible level of support provided to franchise partners to ensure the success of their new business.
Another event is due to be held later in the year. Please register your interest now as places will be limited.
Debbie Smith presenting at the Network Brand Partnerships Open Event, Meriden Hall
Daily Mail opens with the Network Brands
Linda Whitney, Franchise Feature writer for the Daily Mail, opened her article on recruitment franchises this week with an interview from Debbie Smith, Managing Director of Network Brand Partnerships. Both the Network Health & Social Care and CNA International business opportunities were presented in the article a copy of which can be read below. Please select the image to view a higher resolution version.
Disha Solanki featured in the Daily Mail
CNA International franchise partner Disha Solanki was featured in the Daily Mail this week in the ‘Women in Franchising’ feature. Disha took up the recruitment franchise in 2008 specialising in the pharmaceuticals sector.
To read more about Disha please select this link to her case study: Disha Solanki – CNA International Franchise Partner Case study >>
Please find a copy of the article in the Daily Mail below – select the image to view a higher resolution version.
Franchise Open Event - 14th May
Find out more about Network Brand Partnerships at their HQ at Pertemps Meriden Hall.
There will be presentations by representatives of HSBC and the British Franchise Association (BFA) helping you make the right choice for your future.
You will be able to learn about the different niche business models you can choose to invest in - CNA International, Network Health & Social Care and The Recruitment Network. Meet the team and chat to some of the existing Partners (franchisees).
This will be a day for you to discover which business model would suit you.
More information: Network Brand Partnerships Discovery Event>>
Have your cashflow guaranteed
Imagine investing in your own business and having your cashflow guaranteed... With around 80% of small businesses failing primarily as a result of poor cashflow Network Brand Partnerships has a unique solution.
With fees in-line with other recruitment franchises currently available, Network Brand Partnerships offer incredible added value. Not only do you get industry leading training and business management systems, but their unique full factoring service ensures your invoices are paid in full on the 14th of the month, every month.
“We don’t just support partners (franchisees) with our training and industry leading systems, we go one further and ensure their business has the highest chance of success by offering a full factoring service,” explains Andy Michie, Brand Partnership Director, “We even look after their credit control as well!”
The team constantly monitor the endless regulation and legislation ensuring you are aware of exactly what you can and can’t do. All this support leaves you free to concentrate on running your core business, safe in the knowledge the industry’s most experienced and respected management team are right behind you.
Network Brand Partnerships are currently offering two established and proven niche recruitment business models for you to invest in, CNA International in the executive search recruitment sector, and Network Health & Social Care. Both these proven recruitment business models benefit from industry leading systems and one of the most experienced management teams in the recruitment and franchise sectors.
“We wanted to offer people choice as well as support,” comments Andy. “Recruitment covers so many varying sectors suited to people with very different personalities. For example some people are looking for large financial rewards and a better lifestyle. Others want to make a real difference to the lives of those who need assistance.”
Both the executive search and health and social care niches of the recruitment industry are growing for some rather obvious reasons! With the UK’s increasingly aging population and the Government encouraging people to live at home for longer, more home help is required. High quality search is a multi million pound industry. Continued growth is forecast due to the acute worldwide shortage of proven top management talent.
“Our relationship with the major high street banks means you could borrow up to 70% of the total required to invest in becoming one of our partners. Then because we can guarantee your invoices will be paid on the 14th every month you know you can keep control of your investment,” notes Andy.
Over the last 6 months people have changed what they look for in a franchise opportunity. Network Brand Partnerships are offering a choice of two safe business models to invest in that offer freedom of lifestyle and a guaranteed monthly income, an income you know will arrive on 14th every month..
Hard work and loyalty pay
“If you want to be successful surround yourself with successful people, be honest and work hard and there is a very high chance you will succeed”, says Debbie Smith MD of Network Brand Partnerships.
Debbie is a unique person, happily married with three children she is incredibly driven whilst remaining open, honest and friendly to deal with. She knows her stuff too with over 24 years in the recruitment sector and an enviable reputation in the franchise industry. Her previous post was as the UK Operations Director for the Select Appointments Group which franchise the Parkhouse Industrial and Select Appointments brands. When she started at the business in 2004 Select had 11 franchisees. She proceeded to grow the franchise network to 87 in just 3 years, winning numerous awards for excellence in the process.
Debbie started her career in 1985 ironically at Network working for the Chairman and Owner Mr. Tim Watts. Network is a niche group of companies within the Pertemps Group who are one of the largest independent groups of recruitment companies in the UK. Debbie was winning awards from the start taking the top Consultant honours two years running before having the first of her three children!
“When Select was bought by Randstad Holding N.V. I was offered a new challenge by my former and first boss Tim to go back and build Network through franchising, although we refer to our franchisees as partners,” comments Debbie.
Network Brand Partnerships is now the umbrella team managing the three successful business models that cover the niche recruitment sectors of Executive Search, Health Care and the High Street.
C N A Executive Search form one of the three arms of the unique offering Network Brand Partnerships has formed. High quality search is a multi million pound industry. With over 20 franchisees across the UK and Europe this is a well proven business model. Continued growth is forecast due to the acute worldwide shortage of proven top level management talent.
The Health Care arm is an evolution of the established and successful Pertemps Healthcare, named ‘Network Health and Social Care’. The UK market is currently worth over £12 billion per annum and this can only increase as the Government encourage more and more people to receive care in their own homes. This coupled with an increasingly ageing population will result in a quick return on investment.
The Recruitment Network is a more ‘traditional’ recruitment agency business model and forms the final arm of the Network Brand Partnerships offering. The Recruitment Network specialise in commercial and junior to mid management roles supplying both temporary and permanent staff to a wide range of blue chip companies.
Through Debbie’s experience in the franchise industry she knew that a well run exhibition campaign would be a great way to meet and recruit potential new partners.
“I am particularly keen to recruit female partners as although the recruitment industry is historically female dominated, business owners tend to be male”, comments Debbie.
To meet Debbie and the Network Brand Partnerships team and talk about your aspirations pop by their stand at the British and International Franchise Exhibition at London Olympia on the 20th or 21st March.
Great lifestyle, flexibility and a highly profitable business
The recruitment sector is currently worth £37 billion and is forecast to grow due to the shortage of proven management talent. Employers are now more than ever looking to remove risk and appoint credible and proven professionals. Our enviable reputation and expertise means that even in a challenging economic environment survival of the fittest has never been more appropriate.
Consultancy Network Associates (CNA) International was founded in 1993 and now has over 20 partners (franchisees) across the UK and Europe. This prestigious recruitment business has full accreditation by the British Franchise Association (BFA). CNA International is now supported by the experts at Network Brand Partnerships, an arm of the Pertemps Group. Pertemps is one of the most successful and largest groups of Recruitment Companies in the UK and was originally founded in 1961.
A PROFITABLE LIFESTYLE
Decades of successful trading and continual shaping have gone into finalising CNA International as a robust and profitable franchise model. This is a business offering a better lifestyle for you and your family. Work from home and choose your hours, or build a team and open offices. There is the opportunity for large profits too. Last year CNA partners averaged net profits of £115k, the best managing £600k.
ETHICAL SUPPORT
Network Brand Partnerships is a team of some of the most respected and experienced award winning individuals in the recruitment and franchise sectors.
“We believe in ethical franchising,” comments Debbie Smith Managing Director of Network Brand Partnerships. “We have a selection of proven specialist recruitment business models so we can offer choice. Everyone is different and has varying motivations and circumstances. Our CNA partners tend to be highly driven individuals seeking a profitable business model that also offers a choice of lifestyle.”
You do not necessarily need any experience in the industry. You will receive comprehensive training and industry leading business management systems allowing you to be at the forefront of this fast paced niche sector from day 1. Network Brand Partnerships also provide you with a totally unique and reassuring debt factoring service. This means that 100% of your previous month’s client invoices will be paid in full, on time, every month. This ensures your business has reliable cash flow, the reason why 80% of small businesses fail!
LANDING HIGH FLYERS
CNA Executive Search places top performing executive professionals into medium and large blue chip companies. Using bespoke systems, the screening and selection process puts you in the strong and enviable position of confidently proposing suitable candidates to these top employers. Because this head hunting industry operates with candidates that are not necessarily looking for a job move right now, there is no requirement for offices so the operational costs are incredibly low. It also allows you to be in charge of your own working hours and enables you to balance your life according to other commitments or leisure pursuits. The business model offers huge flexibility, depending on your individual lifestyle and ambitions. You can decide to run it as a single owner business or employ your own team of consultants, the choice is yours.
EXPERIENCED TEAM BEHIND YOU
We are looking for motivated partners who want to run their own niche recruitment business. People who want a business that allows them the flexibility and lifestyle those in the City yearn for.
While our initial franchise fee is small, you will realistically need at least £50k in total to set up your CNA International recruitment business. This will include full training and office set up using our unique and established systems. Our excellent relationships with the major high street banks means you could potentially borrow up to 70% of your total requirement.
Unaffected by the challenging economic environment
With an aging population the Care Sector is experiencing healthy growth. This coupled with our industry leading systems, training and support means our partners (franchisees) have a business unaffected by the credit crunch.
The UK healthcare market is currently worth over £12 billion per annum and this is set to grow with an increasingly ageing population. The Government are encouraging people to receive care in their own homes where it is far more cost effective and flexible to provide. This niche recruitment sector holds an enviable and highly stable position in this current economic environment.
SUPPORTING YOU AND YOUR CASH FLOW
Network Health & Social Care is one of the specialist recruitment models supported by Network Brand Partnerships, an arm of the Pertemps Group, one of the largest groups of Recruitment Companies in the UK.
“We are torch bearers for ethical franchising which is why we refer to our franchisees as ‘partners’,” says Debbie Smith, Managing Director for Network Brand Partnerships.
We work with you to ensure your business has the highest chance of success. Our support includes comprehensive training, cutting edge business management systems and ongoing advice with regulatory compliance. We also provide you with a totally unique and reassuring debt factoring service. This means that 100% of your previous month’s client invoices will be paid in full, on time, every month. This ensures your business has reliable cash flow, the reason why 80% of small businesses fail!
We empower you to concentrate on your core business; safe in the knowledge that one of the most committed and respected management teams is right behind you.
£12 BILLION MARKET NICHE!
Run one of the best care recruitment agencies in the UK. As one of our partners, your business will provide temporary and permanent staff to the domiciliary, health and social care sectors.
The UK Care market is currently worth over £12 billion per annum and this can only increase as the Government encourage more people to receive care in their own homes. This, coupled with an increasingly ageing population will result in a quick return on investment.
This business opportunity is for those looking to help others, gain control of their lifestyle and build a solid future for themselves and their family. There are few business opportunities that are truly unaffected by the economic climate and also logically set to continue growing!
EXPERIENCED TEAM BEHIND YOU
We are looking for partners who want to run their own niche recruitment business. People, who want to concentrate on the fundamentals of the business, reassured that they are being supported by one of the best and most experienced support teams. People that wish to offer the highest standards of service currently available. This business model is ideal for couples who wish to work together and is hugely rewarding.
While our initial franchise fee is small, you will realistically need at least £80k in total to set up your Network Health & Social Care business. This will include full training and office set up using our unique and established systems. Our excellent relationships with the major high street banks means you could potentially borrow up to 70% of your total requirement.
Debbie is also actively encouraging more women into franchising by empowering them with the systems and skills they need to succeed.
C N A International join the stable
The recruitment industry has changed. One of the largest independent recruitment groups, Pertemps fired the starting pistol on a new arm of the business, Network Brand Partnerships.
Network Brand Partnerships has been formed to improve the standards of local recruitment across the main sectors within the UK and Europe.
Debbie Smith (MD) commented, “We are offering three very diverse recruitment business models covering Executive Search, Health Care and the High Street. We want to attract partners to run their own business in the sector that suits them. It is an exciting move forwards in a growing industry.”
Network Brand Partnerships completed the acquisition of C N A International in December 2008, adding the established 20 strong Executive Search franchise network to their Health Care and High Street focused partner networks.
“C N A International has an enviable reputation within the recruitment industry and an experienced and highly motivated team of executive search consultants,” said C N A’s founder and former chairman Albert Wilde.
“Since forming the company in 1995, we have expanded our operations into Europe and I’m confident that the resources and expertise that Network Brand Partnerships is able to offer will take C N A to the next stage, enabling robust expansion both in the UK and on the international scene,” continues Wilde.
C N A Executive Search form one of the three arms of the unique offering Network Brand Partnerships has formed to create the leading recruitment industry franchise opportunity. High quality search is a multi million pound industry. Continued growth is forecast due to continue to the acute worldwide shortage of proven top management talent.
The Health Care arm is an evolution of the established and successful Pertemps Healthcare, named ‘Network Health and Social Care’. The UK market is currently worth over £12 billion per annum and this can only increase as the Government encourage more and more people to receive care in their own homes. This coupled with an increasingly ageing population will result in a quick return on investment.
The Recruitment Network is a more ‘traditional’ recruitment agency business model and forms the final arm of the Network Brand Partnerships offering. The Recruitment Network specialise in commercial and junior to mid management roles supplying both temporary and permanent staff to a wide range of blue chip companies.
With so many different sectors in the recruitment industry attracting such varied business owners the aim of Network Brand Partnerships three franchise offerings is simply to provide choice. Partners will benefit from one of the most technologically advanced back office teams in the UK as well as a support team led by some of the recruitment industry’s most respected and experienced Individuals.
The outlook for franchising - master of your own destiny
"The next 18 months will see more and more people choosing to become 'masters of their own destiny' said Jon Smith, Chairman of Network Brand Partnerships at a recent conference. Jon who has spent over 30 years in the recruitment business and remembers previous periods of economic doom and gloom, predicts people will chose this time to change their lives. "I think we will see an influx of people who no longer wish to have their destinies at the whim of others and will want to open their own businesses."
"Particularly those who may have been made redundant and may wish to spend their pay-offs investing in something they cannot only work in but also something that, if successful, will reap great dividends and be of value in the future."
"Impending periods of economic unrest can prove to be life defining moments in peoples aspirations - contrary to popular belief, many extremely profitable businesses were begun in recessions and many new entrepreneurs saw their dreams come to fruition" said Jon.
Budding female "dragons" urged to leave lair
British women are trailing far behind their male counterparts when it comes to setting up in business. Despite an abundance of skills, academic prowess and the high profile of businesswomen like Dragon's Den's Deborah Meaden, the gulf between the numbers of male and female entrepreneurs is significant. If women matched men's start-up levels, an extra £32billion* could be added to the economy, so why the gulf?
Lack of confidence is one of the main barriers recognised by NatWest and RBS, whose pioneering Women in Business Service has been introduced to encourage greater levels of entrepreneurship amongst females. Women starting up in business are also much more likely to worry about debt then men. Of the fifth of women who think about starting a business only half that number actually does. The service is endorsed by the government, Everywoman and Prowess. It provides experienced business managers dedicated to the specific needs and wants of female entrepreneurs.
For more information visit: www.natwest.com/business
* Average turnover of female run businesses is £209,678. The extra 150,000 businesses that would be generated if females matched male startup rates would have a combined turnover of £32 Billion. Sector statistics sourced from BERR (Department of Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform).
Survey finds average six week recruitment gap
An increasing number of UK workers are lobbying their companies to introduce environmentally friendly practices, research has revealed.
More than half (51 per cent) of 1,027 people surveyed by Fujitsu Siemens Computers said they regularly urged their companies to purchase green IT systems, encourage energy saving and recycling. This is almost double the number of people (27 per cent) who said they did this two years ago.
Meanwhile, 80 per cent of respondents believe they're more environmentally conscious than three years ago.
Steve Kendall-Smith, UK managing director at Fujitsu Siemens Computers, said: "Our research shows that the gap between how green we are at home and how green we are at work is closing."
Half of employees would rather work from home
The traditional office environment could soon become a thing of the past as a new survey reveals almost half of employees would rather work from home.
Escaping the rush hour traffic, saving on travel costs and flexible working hours were the most attractive aspects of homeworking, according to the survey by travel company Cruise118.
Of the 1,000 office workers questioned, 46 per cent said they would prefer to work from home full time. A further 80 per cent said they would like the option to work from home occasionally but would miss the camaraderie of working in an office environment too much to do it permanently.
Only one in five said they prefer being based in an office full time.
Mal Barritt, director of Cruise118 which offers both home and office working options to sales staff, said: "With rising petrol prices, expensive child care and a stressful commute to the office each day, it's no wonder that many people would rather work from home.
"The majority of business is done via email and telephone these days and therefore in most cases staff can work just as effectively from home.
"Working from home can greatly enhance people's work-life balance, the reduction in commuting alone could save several hours each day which can be spent with family or on leisure activities."
Social networking sites are good for business
Good news for workers addicted to Facebook, Bebo and MySpace - a think tank says bosses should not stop their staff using social networking sites because they could actually benefit their firms. The report by Demos said encouraging employees to use networking technologies to build relationships and closer links with colleagues and customers could help businesses rather than damage them.
Author Peter Bradwell said that while companies were using specific systems to share information, online social networking sites could also play a role, helping with productivity, innovation and democratic working. However, he said there should be practical guidelines to limit non-work usage.
"Bans on Facebook or YouTube are in any case almost impossible to enforce; firms may as well try to put a time limit on the numbers of minutes allowed each day for gossiping," he wrote.
"The answer is not to close down staff access to social network platforms, nor is it investing blindly in collaborative platforms."
"Rather, we argue that we need to understand how, once we accept the implications of social networks, we can manage the new challenges and trade-offs."
His research concluded that trying to control the use of sites such as Facebook, which alone boasts more than 100 million users worldwide, could even harm organisations.
"Smart" businesses recognised that social networking could not easily be separated from "professional" networking, he argued.
"In today's difficult business environment, the instinctive reaction can be to batten down the hatches and return to the traditional 'command and control' techniques that enable managers to closely monitor and measure productivity," he said.
"Allowing workers to have more freedom and flexibility might seem counterintuitive, but it appears to create business more capable of maintaining stability."
New Network Healthcare office set to open
Another Network Healthcare office is set to open in Dursley, Gloucestershire in the coming weeks. This office has been established due to the successful relationship building with the local council who use Network Healthcare to deliver domiciliary care to those who need it most. Business has been expanding there for some time and up until now the Swindon office of Network Healthcare has provided staff to the area, however Swindon office is doing well and this was placing increasing demands on that office. The decision was made to invest and open closer to the local clients in Dursley. Paul Hanke, MD of Network Healthcare commented '' This will give a real boost to our work in the area and a base for the local team. It is the first office to focus purely in domiciliary care. A village in the countryside may not be an obvious choice for a new business like this but careful research has shown demographics are on our side and already we have more than enough clients to make it profitable and that's even before we officially open!
jobs@pertemps are winners again!
jobs@pertemps were again recognised as one of the Sunday Times Top 100 companies to work for improving their ranking to 37th place.
Talent Shortage
The recession is largely a blue-collar worker phenomenon, and after a short blip, the talent shortage will be more severe than ever, according to a global expert in recruitment strategy.
Kevin Wheeler, president of Global Learning Resources, told Recruiter: "The biggest impact of the recession is on factory and unskilled workers. We are already seeing closure of factories and the evolution of blue collar jobs to other parts of the world, and the recession is going to speed this up even more."
However, Wheeler said that after six months to a year of "slightly less hiring" the shortage of talent among white collar knowledge workers would not only resume, but would get worse. "The recession is more of a mindset than a reality," he added.
On the contrary, Wheeler said that an ageing workforce, with fewer younger people entering it, a declining birth rate and a generation of young people "not highly attracted to typical corporate jobs" had created "almost a perfect storm." "When we come out of this recession, we are going to see shortages that we couldn't even have imagined," said Wheeler.
Franchising - a success story in todays economic uncertainty
Franchise businesses across the country are reporting not just survival stories, within this time of economic uncertainty, but real success stories; further underpinning the belief in the industry that franchising is one of the most successful and resilient business models in the UK.
Brian Smart, director general of the British Franchise Association (bfa) said: "The 2008 NatWest/bfa survey, published at the start of the year showed that the number if franchise networks had increased year on year for the last 15 years and in 2007 saw its economic contribution grow at nearly five times that of the national GDP growth (15% economic growth in franchising against a 3.1% GDP growth)."
"With the focus and hype surrounding the economic condition of the UK over more recent months, we felt it was important to hear the voice of actual businesses today; what they think; how their businesses are operating. The results was a continuing story of success and resilience."
To read details of this article in full please go to www.thebfa.org
New appointments at Network Brand Partnerships
Network Brand Partnerships Ltd has announced the appointments of Debbie Smith as Managing Director and Andy Michie as Brand Partnerships Director.
Backed by Pertemps Investments, Network Brand Partnerships are uniquely offering a 'choice' of brands for those people who seek to own their own recruitment business yet still be backed by one of the largest independent recruitment companies in the UK.
Debbie join from the Select Group of Companies where she held the role of Director of Franchise for 5 years growing the franchise network from 11 to 87 offices culminating in leading her team to win both Franchise Team of the Year and Franchisee Marketing Support. Her first role in the industry though was with the Network Group in 1985.
Debbie commented "I am delighted to be returning to my 'roots' here at Network and I am really excited about the future - we believe we have a great story to tell as no other recruitment franchisor can offer such a diverse range of sectors to be involved in. We recognise that very different types of people seek to be their own boss and we believe that each one of our models will appeal to those people who may have very different skill sets."
"I can see our Executive Search model appealing to senior executives or females who wish to seek a better work/life balance as it is possible to run this business from your own home. Our Healthcare business has a fantastic reputation for exemplary quality of service in the domiciliary care field and I can see this appealing to those people who perhaps would have not even thought of recruitment previously. We also have a more traditional commercial and office management formula which specialises in the provision of temporary and permanent staff to blue chip companies."
"This is one of the best support teams I have ever had the privilege of working with and that has to be good news for potential brand partners who generally enter into an agreement to surround themselves by experts. " Debbie concluded.
Pertemps are ranked in Sunday Times HSBC Top Track 250
Pertemps are ranked in the Sunday Times HSBC Top Track 250, which was recently published.
Now in its fourth year the Sunday Times HSBC Top Track 250 annual league table is compiled by Fast Track. The table ranks Britain's biggest mid-market private companies by sales figures from the latest available audited accounts.