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The winner of the 2006 Franchisee of the Year Awards was recently announced at the at a glittering black tie event on Thursday 5th October at the National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham.
The awards, sponsored by and , were one of the highlights of National Franchise Week (2-9 October).
The theme for this year was ‘Success through Support’. Judges were be looking at the unique relationship that creates and sustains the most successful franchise operations – a relationship that promises help when needed, but also rewards individual flair and personal excellence.
Domino’s franchisee, Antony Tagliamonti, scooped the top prize and was crowned bfa Franchisee of the Year 2006. Beating off stiff competition Antony Tagliamonti - who lives in Woodford Green and runs stores in his home town, Gants Hill, Chingford and Borehamwood - was presented with the Gold Winner’s trophy and an HSBC cheque for £5,000.
The Silver Prize went to Martin and Debbie Beanlands who run a Chem-Dry franchise in Earby. They went home with a cheque for £3000 courtesy of HSBC.
The Bronze Prize was scooped by husband and wife team, Peter and Abigail Atkinson, who are the Belvoir Sleaford franchisees. The couple were awarded a cheque for £2000, again courtesy of HSBC.
The 2006 finalists are:
CHEMEX
John Heslop started his working life as a mining engineer, working hard to gain the qualifications for a bright future.
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CARE@
Pauline Earles travelled the world with the armed forces before settling in the UK. Relocating in Worcester, she saw that Care@ was advertising.
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JO JINGLES
A former paediatric nurse, Claire Lambert sought a career that would be both more challenging and more family-friendly and found the answer in Jo Jingles.
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PITMAN TRAINING
Shilpa Wymer had helped her husband build up two businesses and was looking for a new opportunity when she first met Pitman Training.
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DOMINO’S PIZZA
Antony Tagliamonti started his career with Domino’s Pizza as a part-time delivery driver.
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CHEM-DRY
After 18 years in the Royal Air Force, Martin and Debbie Beanlands needed to find a new future in the civilian world.
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ACTION INTERNATIONAL
44-year old David Roberts had owned his own financial services Company in the 1980’s followed by a successful career in sales and marketing.
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BELVOIR LETTINGS
Peter and Abigail Atkinson gave up secure jobs and mortgaged their house in September 2004 to purchase an existing franchised property management company called “Belvoir Sleaford”.
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PRONTAPRINT
Prontaprint Birmingham Central, owned and operated for the past 18 years by Pat Lilley and Paul Paintain, is the most successful design and print centre in the whole of Prontaprint’s 170-strong franchise network.
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RIVERFORD ORGANIC VEGETABLES
After three years of running his own organic vegetable box scheme, Nick Riley realised he could build a really successful business – if he had the right support.
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Last year’s winner of the 2005 bfa Franchisee of the Year Award was Countrywide Grounds Maintenance franchisees, John Passfield and Roy Sharpe. Click here to read more about their success story.
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