{"id":14387,"date":"2022-05-05T15:00:03","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T14:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/?p=14387"},"modified":"2022-05-05T07:45:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T06:45:47","slug":"manchester-conference-celebrates-best-ever-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/manchester-conference-celebrates-best-ever-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester conference celebrates best ever year"},"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 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Back for the first time in two years, Driver Hire\u2019s annual conference, held at the Lowry Hotel, Manchester, provided a perfect opportunity to celebrate an outstanding year for a whole host of franchisees and their offices.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nic Chaviaris collected the top award, \u2018Franchisee of the Year.\u2019 Also on the podium were: Jordan Tracey (Dundee &amp; Perth) and Oliver Maxwell (Milton Keynes) who each won \u2018New Start of the Year\u2019 &#8211; the first time in Driver Hire history that two franchisees have won this category in the same year; Mick Goodfellow (Nottingham) \u2018Lawn Rose Bowl for Endeavour\u2019 and Graeme Edgerton (Paisley) \u2018David Walter Memorial Salver\u2019. In total 36 awards were presented to 24 different franchisees for exceptional business performance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chief Executive, Chris Chidley was on hand to reveal to over 100 delegates from across the Driver Hire network, that the financial year 2021\/22 was the best ever in nearly 40 years trading. It was also a record year for Driver Hire Australia, Driver Risk Management and the whole of the SPS Group.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Commenting on Driver Hire\u2019s overall performance Chris said: \u201cThe business is even better and stronger post pandemic. Trading is 61% higher than the previous year. It\u2019s a performance you can all be proud of.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back for the first time in two years, Driver Hire\u2019s annual conference, held at the Lowry Hotel, Manchester, provided a perfect opportunity to celebrate an outstanding year for a whole host of franchisees and their offices. Nic Chaviaris collected the top award, \u2018Franchisee of the Year.\u2019 Also on the podium were: Jordan Tracey (Dundee &amp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":14388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-driver-hire","category-recruitment-franchises"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Franchisee-of-the-Year-2021-Gatwick.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14387","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=14387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}