{"id":3768,"date":"2020-01-06T13:31:22","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T13:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/?p=3768"},"modified":"2020-01-06T13:31:22","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T13:31:22","slug":"accentia-franchise-consultants-open-first-middle-east-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/accentia-franchise-consultants-open-first-middle-east-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Accentia Franchise Consultants Open First Middle East office"},"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>UK based Accentia Franchise Consultants have now opened their first of several offices in the Middle East region. The office run by Accentia&#8217;s Middle East Director Khalid Mahdi is located in Dubai and covers both the GCC and the Levant.<\/p>\n<p>Providing a strategic foothold within the region for those franchisors who are already clients of Accentia along with creating a local infrastructure through which brands home grown within the UAE and the Middle East can expand internationally; Accentia are able to offer franchisors established or fledgling, large or small a first class expansion platform.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Paul Mitchell Managing Director at Accentia says:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018The new office in Dubai is the first of several that we are opening within the region, it will be followed during the next 2 years by further branches in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain and Lebanon. The Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf are excellent markets for franchising with both highly experienced multi-brand franchise operators along with many very well established regional brands with strong franchise potential.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Accentia Franchise Consultants have an existing UK office network comprising of 8 branches in London, Ilkley, Manchester, Gatwick, Plymouth, Birmingham, Edinburgh and Northampton, the company&#8217;s senior Director team have over two centuries of franchise development and leadership experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK based Accentia Franchise Consultants have now opened their first of several offices in the Middle East region. The office run by Accentia&#8217;s Middle East Director Khalid Mahdi is located in Dubai and covers both the GCC and the Levant. Providing a strategic foothold within the region for those franchisors who are already clients of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[245,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accentia","category-consultancy-franchises"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/accentia-middle-east.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}