{"id":6393,"date":"2020-09-10T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T09:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/?p=6393"},"modified":"2020-09-10T17:04:58","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T16:04:58","slug":"transworld-business-advisors-uk-welcomes-four-new-franchisees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/transworld-business-advisors-uk-welcomes-four-new-franchisees\/","title":{"rendered":"Transworld Business Advisors UK welcomes four new franchisees"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 3<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

In spite of the economic landscape, Transworld Business Advisors has welcomed four new franchisees into the network. Each one, having completed their training during the pandemic, is now open and ready to support other business owners.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

If you are looking for a credible career move to propel you forward, you might have already considered franchising. The benefit of investing in your own franchise business, and all the franchisor has to offer, is highly advantageous. Especially if you still have career goals you want to accomplish, but don\u2019t have years to invest in building something from scratch.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Over the last few months, four professionals were looking for a new opportunity for their career, and saw a profitable future with Transworld Business Advisors. They have recently joined the growing UK network, and are in the process of opening their own Transworld offices, sharing a collective desire to support business owners with the sale of their businesses.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Allow us to introduce John, Kevin, Lewella and Richard, as they explain their reasons for choosing to open their new Transworld offices:<\/span><\/p>\n

John Groves<\/b><\/p>\n

Owner of Transworld of Milton Keynes<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Having bought and sold his own businesses, John wanted to use his experiences, before he retired, to support other business owners by secure profitable exits.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAfter the sale of my last business, I decided to consolidate my exit experiences, with Transworld Business Advisors\u2019 40+ years of success. <\/span>I\u2019d built-up three of my own businesses \u2013 including an IT company, and a Telecommunications business \u2013 before selling them on. Each business I sold, I used a different approach, before realising I could have done things better, had I used the right processes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Although he didn\u2019t use Transworld for any of his own business sales, in his due diligence research, John recognised a quality in their sales process which would have made his life much easier. \u201cThrough my new franchise, I now want to focus on helping my clients secure the best price for their own businesses, in as painless a process as I can guide them through. Combining Transworld\u2019s processes of development over the last 40 years, with my own personal experiences, and finance and accountancy background, made good business sense. I am confident I will grow a successful and profitable business, as I help many clients.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Kevin Wicks<\/b><\/p>\n

Owner of Transworld of Teesside<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

With the increasing red tape, and increasingly cut-throat nature of the industry he was in, Kevin was ready for one last change in direction before retirement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHaving started-out in business when I was 21, I didn\u2019t actually plan my exit strategy until I was in my fifties. The petrochemical industry I had started out in, along with the pharmaceutical and nuclear industries I also worked in, had changed so much I no longer enjoyed what I was doing. I\u2019d had experience in consultancy over the years, especially with large turn-around projects. So, felt this was the direction I wanted to move in.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In looking through the various franchise opportunities, Kevin soon found one which would suit him. \u201cI don\u2019t have enough time left in my career to start from scratch, and so having researched various options, I believe Transworld was the right fit for me, both culturally and in terms of the credibility they offer in the marketplace. It feels like they have given me a three year head-start, compared to if I\u2019d started my own business.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

By combining his experiences with the Transworld model, Kevin says, \u201cI think I have enough grey hairs and credibility to successfully support my clients through the sale of their own businesses. Selling a business is a very personal life-issue, I know, as I have been through some very uncomfortable situations myself. So, I also bring to the table a sense of empathy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Richard and Lewella Long\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Co-owners of Transworld of Norfolk<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Husband and wife entrepreneurs, Richard and Lewella Long, have always worked together, conquering the pet industry and online retail, side-by-side.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe opened our initial business, in 1992, growing from wholesale into a vast online retailer, as we moved with the times. In 2015, we made a strategic sale on it. We\u2019d also been supporting one of the big supermarkets, by supplying products for their online catalogue, and sold our second business around the same time. This left us free to pursue a new goal \u2013 a move to North Carolina, where we set up another business, still within the pet industry.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

When they moved back to the UK, after selling-up another profitable business, Richard and Lewella were ready to use their experiences to support others. \u201cFor 30+ years, we\u2019ve been involved in entrepreneurship, retail, online retail and the pet industry, and whilst we\u2019ve loved what we\u2019ve done, we weren\u2019t ready to build another business from scratch. We know what it\u2019s like to sell a business \u2013 including large multi-million pound ones.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With Transworld, Richard and Lewella are able to combine their personal experiences with the world-class training Transworld provides. \u201cWe always used a broker to ease the burden of the sale process \u2013 especially as selling a business is very personal. The Transworld training has given us a deeper understanding of how best to support other business owners through the sales process. This, combined with our experiences, has given us the confidence to know we will deliver the best support, so they too can achieve their goals.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Of his new franchise partners, Henry Ziff, Managing Director of Transworld Business Advisors UK, says, “We are delighted to launch three new offices across the UK, over the last two months. We are now in a position to support local business owners around Milton Keynes, Norfolk and Teesside, at this pressing time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEach new Transworld office is run by someone with a wealth of knowledge and insight they will use to support local business owners through their business exit, having had personal experience of setting-up and running, then subsequently selling their businesses. It is this real life expertise Transworld provides to small and medium size businesses owners across the UK, and around the world. We understand the highs and lows of running a business and can, therefore, expertly guide our clients to their own successful business exit.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In spite of the economic landscape, Transworld Business Advisors has welcomed four new franchisees into the network. Each one, having completed their training during the pandemic, is now open and ready to support other business owners.\u00a0 If you are looking for a credible career move to propel you forward, you might have already considered franchising. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[837],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-transworld-business-advisors"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Transworld-Training-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6393","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=6393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}