{"id":26607,"date":"2025-12-08T18:18:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T18:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/?p=26607"},"modified":"2025-12-08T18:18:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T18:18:04","slug":"from-flooring-to-smart-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/from-flooring-to-smart-repair\/","title":{"rendered":"From Flooring to Smart Repair"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

New franchisee Ethan Rozario has just one regret \u2013 that he didn\u2019t go down the franchise route sooner!<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The 31-year-old launched Revive! Crewe 18 months ago and is delighted with the way his business is going.<\/p>\n

In addition to running his Revive! business he also owns the family flooring company, taking over from his father ten years ago.\u00a0 His brother joining the business three years ago gave Ethan the opportunity to think about starting a new venture.<\/p>\n

It was the sheer hard work and long hours it took to build up the flooring business that made Ethan appreciate the huge differences between starting up on your own and becoming part of an award winning, proven, franchise.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I could have my time over, given the choice of either going with a proven franchise or working 18 hours a day to get something going from scratch, I would always do a franchise.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI chose to join Revive! because it was in an industry I was familiar with and one where I would be offering a service which would align with everything I already did in my other business.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI liked that with Revive! there was existing brand awareness, a ready-made website, full marketing support and an immediate workflow that gave me the capacity to instantly be running a management franchise.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Initially the majority of Crewe\u2019s work came from the retail sector, but Ethan made the most of the quieter autumn months of 2024 to call on dealerships,\u00a0 landing the biggest independent dealership in the territory which now provides the team with a high volume of regular work.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhilst National Account work is a real bonus, you can\u2019t honestly expect to have all your work handed to you by Revive! It\u2019s my business at the end of the day. You have to go out and try to get repeat customers, go and give out leaflets and go and see dealerships,\u00a0 and with the support from Revive! head office I am very comfortable doing that.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

After some initial staffing issues, he\u2019s now got his \u2018dream\u2019 team of three technicians and is looking to add a fourth van soon to cope with the ever-increasing demand.<\/p>\n

Sales really took off for Crewe in February of this year as retail word of mouth recommendations gained momentum and dealership work flooded in.\u00a0 Ethan\u2019s team have also been helping Revive! look after a vacant neighbouring territory and Ethan plans to buy this territory in the new year.<\/p>\n

Crewe technicians feature regularly amongst the top five technicians in the Revive! network leaderboard\u2014an achievement Ethan heralds as one of the highlights in his Revive! journey so far.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got such a great team here. We\u2019ve taken on a young lad whose 19 and he\u2019s absolutely fantastic. He joined from a car dealership where he was an apprentice on a low wage. Now he must be the most well paid 19-year-old around, doing 14 or 15 thousand pounds worth of work a month with us! Seeing people all around me doing well is one of the main reasons I do this.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

So what else motivates Ethan?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always had a goal to retire when I\u2019m 50 or maybe semi-retire, and perhaps with the way things are going I\u2019ll be able to do that even sooner.\u00a0 I\u2019ve never really done it to become a millionaire \u2013 although if one day I do that\u2019ll be nice \u2013 I\u2019ve always done it for a better lifestyle or to retire earlier.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Looking to the future, top of Ethan\u2019s list of priorities is to take on an administrator to make sure he can continue to focus on the business rather than have to work in it as the workload and tech team grows. Purchasing the neighboring territory of Winsford will come next, and then hopefully a long-awaited holiday with his girlfriend Charlotte.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New franchisee Ethan Rozario has just one regret \u2013 that he didn\u2019t go down the franchise route sooner! The 31-year-old launched Revive! Crewe 18 months ago and is delighted with the way his business is going. In addition to running his Revive! business he also owns the family flooring company, taking over from his father […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":26608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-automotive-franchises","category-revive"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Ethan-Rozario-Revive-Crewe-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26607","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=26607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}