{"id":11255,"date":"2021-10-08T17:00:57","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T16:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/?p=11255"},"modified":"2022-01-27T10:51:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T10:51:32","slug":"uks-only-pest-control-and-live-bee-removal-franchise-buzzing-at-ongoing-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/uks-only-pest-control-and-live-bee-removal-franchise-buzzing-at-ongoing-success\/","title":{"rendered":"UK\u2019s only pest control and live bee removal franchise buzzing at ongoing success"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>Fresh off the back of the successful return of the National Franchise Exhibition, PGH Beegone Franchising Limited has announced the recruitment of its second franchisee who will run his pest control and live bee removal business in the southern Birmingham area.<\/p>\n<p>PGH Beegone is a relatively new franchise, which launched in December 2020, and prides itself on solving pest problems others can\u2019t while also being the only franchise in the UK to offer live bee removal. The franchise\u2019s approach to recruitment has been cautious; low numbers of franchisees were deliberately planned for the first year to allow the business to form a strong foundation from which build on.<\/p>\n<p>The franchisor\u2019s first branch, PGH Beegone Bury St Edmunds, launched at the end of April 2021 and, much to owner David Hasler\u2019s delight, is outperforming its targets \u2013 having taken \u00a3120k + VAT in sales in its first six months!<\/p>\n<p>It was PGH Beegone\u2019s first time at the National Franchise Exhibition but with live bees and a falcon on the stand they made sure they weren\u2019t missed! With over 85 exhibitors and it was a tentative but welcome return to live events. PGH Beegone reported coming away with five strong leads hoping to attend one of their upcoming Discovery Sessions and many more visitors to their stand which was an important brand-building exercise for this emerging franchisor.<\/p>\n<p>MD Peter Higgs said: \u201cThe franchise is really gaining momentum now, we put a lot of time and effort into getting PGH Beegone Bury St Edmunds up and running and profitable and will do the same with our next franchisees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe National Franchise Exhibition was a great platform for us and it made me personally even more excited for what\u2019s to come.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh off the back of the successful return of the National Franchise Exhibition, PGH Beegone Franchising Limited has announced the recruitment of its second franchisee who will run his pest control and live bee removal business in the southern Birmingham area. PGH Beegone is a relatively new franchise, which launched in December 2020, and prides [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":11256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1473,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pgh-beegone","category-home-improvement-franchises"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/PGH-Beegone-at-National-Franchise-Expo-Oct-2021-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}