Category Archives: Franchising

Our top 10 websites of 2012 [part one]

By Tim Bishop | Published: January 24, 2012

January is a great month to review progress made in the previous year – and I always make sure that I don’t just give up reviewing the previous year on January 1st – I use the whole of January to review the previous year and conduct a mental spring clean. That’s exactly what I been [...]

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Franchising – important considerations

By Tim Bishop | Published: January 13, 2012

Franchising is the practice of using another firm’s successful business model, i.e. possesses a good track record of profitability, is a unique or unusual concept with broad geographic appeal, detailed systems, processes and procedures, can be easily standardised and duplicated and is relatively simple and inexpensive to operate. A franchise is merely a temporary business [...]

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Franchising – the importance of intellectual property

By Tim Bishop | Published: September 22, 2011

Franchising a business is more than just a business agreement. In fact, when setting up a franchise, one of the most critical legal issues to be considered is intellectual property – which is one of the reasons it is so important you seek specialist franchising legal advice if you are thinking of franchising your business. [...]

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Business law blog catch-up

By Tim Bishop | Published: August 21, 2011

  Unless you’re a regular reader of my blog, you have probably missed some of my blogs about the various specialist business law micro websites which we have launched recently. If so, if you did out, is a quick to three of our most recent business law micro sites; Partnership dispute Our commercial litigators specialize [...]

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Franchising, copyright and business partnership dispute microsites-catch up

By Tim Bishop | Published: August 11, 2011

If you are a new comer to this blog, you may have missed some of the recent blog entry about the various specialist microsites we’ve set up recently with regard to the advice we give businesses. If you have missed out, here’s a recap on three of our recent business related specialist web sites; Copyright [...]

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A Solicitors’ guide to your Franchise

By Tim Bishop | Published: July 18, 2011

Despite the tough economic conditions we are all enduring, banks are still generally willing to consider lending to franchisees. This offers a great opportunity for franchisors, as long as they take certain factors into account when choosing their franchisees.  A good Franchise Agreement The Franchise Agreement is essential to the well-being of your relationship with [...]

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Franchising and the law

By Tim Bishop | Published: May 27, 2011

There is a common misconception with people new to the “franchise” business model that it’s the easy way to launch a business without the legal and administrative headaches in starting a business from scratch. This is rarely the case, due to the legal regulation involved with operating a franchise.  There is currently no dedicated franchise [...]

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Restrictive covenants and your franchise agreement

By Tim Bishop | Published: May 22, 2011

Any well drafted franchise agreement will include a restrictive covenant – limiting the ability of the franchisee to set up a similar business competing with the franchisor or approach previous clients or staff. But it’s well established that such restrictive covenants need to be reasonable – if they are to be legally enforceable. So such [...]

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What is a Pilot Franchise ?

By Tim Bishop | Published: April 17, 2011

Our Franchising Solicitors think that in principle pilot franchises are really good idea – but what exactly are they? The concept is very simple. You may have a great business and think it will transfer well to the franchise format – but running a successful business and replicating it nationwide in a franchise are two [...]

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Choosing specialist solicitors on the net

By Tim Bishop | Published: April 14, 2011

In many cases, local solicitors will be more than capable of handling your legal case. So if you’re looking for say a conveyancing solicitor or divorce lawyer, looking for the right Solicitor in Andover or Salisbury Lawyers, for example, should be fine. But what happens if you looking for a much more specialist solicitor – [...]

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