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About Us
Recognition Express - British Franchise Association's Franchise of the Year 2003
Recognition Express has been successfully operating franchises in corporate recognition and promotional products since 1979. Recognition Express is the most successful franchise network for the sector in the UK, with over 45 franchisees in the UK and Europe.
Supplying branded business gifts and personalised promotional products, name badges, staff awards, posters and signs plus a full range of branded clothing to businesses, schools and organisations in the UK. The opportunity is huge with an established and growing market worth in excess of £3 billion per annum.
Recognition Express is the UK’s market leader with over 30 years of experience in the business. Franchisees that are hard working, ambitious and driven, with good ‘people skills’ are well suited to the ethos of the company.
As a successful company operating in the business to business sector Recognition Express has been a full member of the bfa since 1980, and is a past winner of the bfa Franchisor of the Year award.
Walk around your local area and see the opportunities everywhere for signs, badges, clothing, large format colour posters, promotional products, corporate gifts and awards. The market is massive, and the good news is that the majority of the business is repeat business.
Recognition Express Franchise Owners pride themselves on the excellent long-term relationships, even friendships, which they build in their everyday working lives.
Training and Support - How We Support YouIt’s you who makes the key decisions in your franchise business, but you are not on your own because we are always on hand with help and advice, business planning, financial planning, marketing programmes, training and much more.
As part of the largest franchise network for corporate merchandise and recognition products you benefit from our considerable purchasing power. We get the very best products from the very best suppliers, keeping you one step ahead of the competition.
Recognition Express franchisees benefit from:
- Extensive marketing support
- Centralised marketing programmes
- Integrated business planning
- On-going training and support
- In-house procurement services
- A range of equipment
The training is comprehensive and extensive. Your three week training will cover all the key business areas – marketing, sales, finance, business planning, production, products, pricing etc.
“At the end of my first year I decided to move into commercial premises to enable even further growth for the business. I have achieved 25% net profit, have cash in the bank and believe that I can go from strength to strength.”
Kevin Andrews, Recognition Express Taunton
“The support has been first class with excellent material and an ever improving range of centralised marketing programmes. I can see significant growth into my fourth year and having taken on an extra resource am aiming to take the business to the next level of £300,000 over the next 12 months.”
Sally Findlay, Recognition Express Mid Surrey
Equipment is installed directly into your home or business unit to help you meet customer orders from day one, you will receive a comprehensive stock package.
Additionally many products are held in stock by RE distribution, our own warehouse and distribution service to ensure immediate dispatch and to allow you to respond to customers - ‘on-demand’.
MarketingRecognition Express has extensive marketing experience in the business to business field, and also internally retains the services of a Marketing Agency to work with our Head of Marketing to co-ordinate activities.
Centrally designed, managed and implemented direct marketing programmes form the backbone of the Recognition Express marketing system. These are augmented by high quality literature, marketing tools and ongoing training designed to drive business growth, client contact and brand awareness.
Constantly on the lookout for new exciting products and innovations, we invest both the time and money in on-going new product development programmes and in constant R&D, across the whole product range.
Support Across The BusinessSupport includes:
- Business planning
- Centralised marketing programmes
- On going training
- Financial planning
- ‘Fastrak’ market launch
- Regional meetings
- Weekly newsletters
- Monthly marketing and product bulletins
- Dedicated extranet for the network
- Help and advice lines
- Franchisee websites
- Specific new owner’s meetings
- Company conference
- And more...
What does a Recognition Express franchise cost?
Total package, including our franchise fee - £30,000 plus vat (vat reclaimable in your first trading quarter)
A typical bank loan is £20,000
Your investment is therefore only £10,000
Initial franchise package includes:
- 3 Weeks Training
- Fastrak market launch
- CDMP – for 12 months
- Equipment
- Initial Stock and samples
- Presenters and Sales Aids
- Marketing Database (Team Visual), Software & Materials
- Sage Accounting Software
- Training
- Immediate installation at your home or office
We want the best
Recognition Express will provide you with everything you need to ensure a successful start to your franchise business. Our philosophy is quite simple; “We want the best”.
Territories/Locations
In the Recognition Express nationwide network of franchise areas, there are numerous vacancies covering most parts of the UK.
In addition there are Master Franchise opportunities available in France and the Benelux countries.
Franchise resale possibilities are also open to offers from time to time so if you have any interest then please make contact, outlining your particular area of interest.
Who is Recognition Express looking for?There is no ideal franchisee profile. Existing Recognition Express franchise owners come from a variety of backgrounds, all with their own specific skills, including company directors, nurses, an airline flight attendant, sales executives and marketing managers.
However, there are three qualities that are a must:
- You must be a ‘people person’ – comfortable sitting in front of, talking to and befriending people.
- You must be willing to follow a system.
- You must be prepared to work hard.