Franchisee success
One of Australia's fastest growing locally owned retail coffee chains, The Coffee Club , is spreading its wings overseas. The master franchise has just been sold in Dubai and Korea, in addition to the three Coffee Club stores already operating in New Zealand.
The Coffee Club recognises the success of the business depends on its franchisees, so the head office staff work closely with all franchisees to deliver a better enterprise. It is this 'can-do' attitude that The Coffee Club will be taking to its overseas outlets.
Step up for Boost
Boost Juice founder Janine Allis is stepping out of her role as CEO to make way for current chief operating officer and Viva Juice co-founder Simon McNamara.
McNamara is to take over as CEO with immediate effect, focusing on brand building through new product development and strategic acquisitions in Australia.
Allis will move into a role as executive chairman, enabling her to focus on the company's rapidly expanding international operations.
"As a pioneer of the juice business in Australia, Simon is the natural choice to take the reins at Boost," said Allis. McNamara intends to use his experience in the juice market to continue building the Boost brand in Australia.
Contours expanding exponentially
Contours Fitness franchise is seeing strong growth in Australia securing its 105th Australian Franchise in less than two years and is now heading to NZ. The franchise is in 14 countries around the world.
Coutours claims 1300% increase in group revenue to a figure exceeding $7 million over the past 12 months and is expected to treble to $25 million by the end of 2007.
Top 'choice' for mortgage franchise
Mortgage Choice recently announced one of its franchise owners won the 2006 Australian Mortgage Awards Salesperson of the Year (Franchise).
Maroondah (VIC) business personality Graeme Andrew accepted his trophy in front of 850 industry representatives at the gala awards night which was held at Luna Park in Sydney this August.
Graeme, who was also named Mortgage Choice Single Operator of the Year earlier this year, has been the sole loan writer within his mortgage broking business. The business has serviced the local Maroondah community for over eight years.
Pacific Internet wins SPAN Award
Pacific Internet (Australia) – FCA Alliance Partner –recently won an award titled "Competition and Growth – SME" at the annual Service Providers Association (SPAN) and Communications Day this September.
Pacific Internet won the award for their outstanding contribution to industry competition and beneficial industry growth. The company's SecureSite offering –Australia's first managed, end-to-end IP connectivity and security service for small to medium-sized businesses – was highlighted as a propellant.
Dennis Muscat, managing director of Pacific Internet (Australia), said: "Pacific Internet is a fast growing company with a compound annual growth rate in Australia of 25% over the last three years. We're delighted our success in meeting the needs of SMBs has been recognised with this prestigious industry award."
Pacific Internet stood out from among the five mid-sized service providers nominated as finalists in the category.
Eagle Boys partnerships fly with savings
Eagle Boys Pizza has signed multi-million dollar deals with two of its leading suppliers AMCOR and Manildra Flour, which will provide significant cost savings to its franchisees.
AMCOR has been supplying the company and its franchisees with pizza boxes for over 15 years, and Manildra Flour has provided the key ingredient for their bases for over five years in NSW and WA but now have the national supply account.
Eagle Boys Managing Director Tom Potter said the partnerships were long standing as both AMCOR and Manildra continued to grow and develop its offering to support Eagle Boys strategic development.
"Both companies provided a tender that reflected value for money and a supreme product offering," he said. Eagle Boys Pizza currently has more than 165 stores operating across Australia.
Brumby's Bumper Year
Brumby's Bakeries Limited has reported a 21 per cent increase in net profit after tax for the full year to June 30, 2006 to $2.08 million.
Brumby's managing director Michael Sherlock said the earnings increase was led by a growth in revenue of 19 per cent, from $8.35 million to $9.92 million as well improved efficiencies in operating costs.
"Brumby's stores have achieved organic sales growth of up to 12 per cent during the 12 months to June 30 as more customers are attracted to the promise of preservative-free bread baked fresh the day of purchase.
"Brumby's expects this trend to continue as part of a growing movement among consumers searching for 'fresh' food". At June 30 there were a total of 316 Brumby's franchisees across Australia and New Zealand.
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