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Melbourne, Victoria, Au

hattch is revolutionising how franchise businesses are bought and sold.The hattch app uses science-based, data-driven analysis to profile our franchise partners’ top performers and identify prospective franchisees that are matched based on culture, values, work style, competencies and investment appetite.hattch eliminates the need for high-cost, poorly-performing business directory listings and ensures that franchisors can focus on engaging with applicants that are highly suited to their business – those that are lookalikes to their top-performing franchisees.Through hattch, franchisors can- receive enquiries only from those that are at least 85% matched with your top performers- only pay for the enquiries you accept- fully control how your brand looks and feels on your own dedicated mini-site in hattch- list as many opportunities as you wish- pro-actively seek matches and invite them to consider your business- utilise our integrated CRM for transparent communications and pipeline management- access advanced analytics and reportingNot only that, but we’ve also partnered with many of the key lending banks to provide a streamlined lending introduction service, directly through the app.Nothing like hattch has ever been seen in franchising before. We know you’re going to love it!Websitehttps://www.hattch.com/

Mount Eliza, Victoria, Au

Mount Eliza, Victoria, Au

BDC Partners remove the biggest headaches for Australia’s retailers and franchisors.If it’s not one thing, it’s another. Sales, cashflow, landlords, franchisees, tech, stock, staff, even the weather… it changes every week, month-to-month.Well, we can’t do much about the weather, but we’ve got the rest.Having lived and breathed the obstacles, we understand the levers of your business. Bringing together street smarts, usable data, and a wealth of resources, BDC is an unmatched tool for retailers and franchisors.Whether you are a big or small business, eyeing rapid growth or needing to save your arse, it doesn’t faze us. When we switch your problems to profit, the weather is gonna be a helluva lot sunnier.Our Bread and Butter;- Franchise development- Franchise recruitment- Retail lease negotiations & commercial property management - Shop fitting- Franchise Law- Finance- Marketing- Accounting - Insurance- Location Intelligence- Business Brokerage- People & Culture

Independent Paint Specialists Australia (IPSA) is an entity owned by Haymes Paint. IPSA has been set up to create a destination for Haymes Paint being Haymes Paint Shop, and will recruit, support and develop existing paint specialists to ensure there will always be Independent paint retailers. Primary Responsibilities: - Strategising and execution of business plan and budget- Board reporting- Recruitment of high performing team & development of KPI’s to achieve business goals- Negotiate supplier rebates with key core suppliers- Development of franchise system and documentation- Development of Operations Manual, Marketing Manual, and Staff Handbook- Systemising Network Partner recruitment process- Formulation of customer segments and appropriate marketing channels- Formulation of benchmarking and reporting systems.Achievements:- Increased supplier rebates by 7% through negotiation- Converted 19 Haymes Paint company owned stores to the rebranded Haymes Paint Shop - Opened an additional 6 greenfield locations throughout Victoria- Successfully recruited 7 independent store owners into Haymes Paint Shop- Increased average daily sales by 147% through a structured omni channel marketing campaign which also saw litres increase from 12,400 to 41,200- Increased a Network Partners net profit by 11% as a result of benchmarking and systems.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

As the Founder of Salts of the Earth and person responsible for introducing salt therapy to Australia, I was faced with many challenges. These challenges extended from the day to day challenges of starting a new business, to the challenges of starting a new industry in Australia. Education was our main objective. I introduced salt therapy to Australia after seeing the effects the therapy had on my father. Salt therapy is a natural complementary therapy that helps relieve symptoms of both respiratory and skin conditions. People sit in specially designed rooms and breathe in dry salt aerosol. Shortly after developing strong unit economics for our first centre, we opened a second after six months. Upon the success of our second centre we commenced franchising in 2011. Primary Responsibilities: - Board reporting.- Leading the development of the company’s short term and long term goals.- Creating and implementing the company’s vision and mission statement.- Operations management.- Communication, executing and reviewing progress based on the business plan.- Assisting with the documenting of systems and processes in manuals such as Operations, Training, Marketing, Site Selection and Fit Out. - Motivating and evaluating the management team of the franchisor. - Data analysis for decision making and performance review. - Governance and compliance- Risk Management.Achievements:- Founded and introduced Salts of the Earth to Australia.- Recruited and opened 29 franchise partners- Increased franchise partner product gross margin by 50%, by Introducing a SOTE product range.- Served over 65,000 clients with over 800,000 appointments.- Twice finalist for Emerging Franchisor of the Year, FCA awards.- Had two franchise partners with State Franchisee of the Year awards, FCA awards.- Winner of the 2016 Australian NextGen in Franchising.- Runner up in the 2017 Global NextGen in Franchising.- Featured in Forbes and 1851 Franchise, Young ones to Watch 2017.

Bachelor Of Arts Business Studies, Accounting, Economics, Hr, It, Marketing, Advertising.

Diploma, Building And Construction

Certified Franchise Executive (Cfe)

Carpentry/Carpenter

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