Stiaan Scheepers flies the math’s flag for South Africa
For most teenagers, draping a South African flag and holding up a trophy happens when one wins a track race, aces a tennis tournament or excels on the rugby field. But for Stiaan Scheepers, it’s winning bronze (3rd) at the 2022 Junior Mental Calculation World Championships held in Bielefeld in Germany – and being one of the best human calculators in the world – and not for the first time either! FASA Franchise Association South AfricaTo protect, lobby, promote and develop ethical franchising across all sectors in South Africa with specific focus on transformation. www.fasa.co.za …
Company culture wins DoughGetters top award
It is not every day that a fledgling business, barely three years old, wins a prestigious award, let alone twice in a row. It is quite another thing when they attribute their success to their unique company culture and people-centered business values. Melissa DoughgettersDoughGetters Accounting™ is a bleeding edge accounting technology company that provides world class accounting and related services embracing the radical change we are already seeing in the accounting world. doughgetters.co.za/ …
Franchise Opportunities with PropertyGuys
Romany ThresherRomany Thresher is a strategic thinker and natural connector with a talent for identifying opportunities for your business or venture. Organising, and overseeing your online digital systems and processes for your webinars and virtual events. Website set up, email communications, social media marketing and set up registration and feedback processes. Ensuring that you collect the necessary information to help you obtain a better understanding of your customer’s expectations. Romany adds value to your business always being on the lookout for new opportunities to connect like-minded individuals who can add value to each other for a mutual benefit. Assisting …
Food lover’s market create social enterprise opportunities
Food Lover’s Market has launched its Seeds Of Change Supplier Development Partnership to create opportunities for social enterprises to join the fresh produce retailer’s network as a supplier. They are looking for businesses that are ideally socially and environmentally focused, are passionate about retail and motivated to deliver the best quality product or service. FASA Franchise Association South AfricaTo protect, lobby, promote and develop ethical franchising across all sectors in South Africa with specific focus on transformation. www.fasa.co.za …
Home delivery laundry service with Mr Jeff has arrived in South Africa
Home delivery laundry service with Mr Jeff has arrived in South Africa, here’s what you can expect. The opening of the first Mr Jeff franchise in South Africa forms part of Jeff’s international expansion into the African continent, which the company initially embarked upon in August 2019. Technology and data management has enabled Jeff to digitize the traditional laundry sector through an innovative business model. Over the last 5 years, the Spanish company has managed to expand in 40 countries, across 4 continents, through more than 2,000 physical stores. FASA Franchise Association South AfricaTo protect, lobby, promote and develop ethical …
Proudly SA: The woman and the entrepreneur
FASA is proud to highlight the partnership they have with Proudly SA in promoting the use of locally made products and services. Whether it’s to equip your staff with masks and face shields, hand sanitizers, surface detergents and disinfectants, make sure that you pay it forward and source all your PPE requirements from local manufacturers and keep someone else in business. FASA Franchise Association South AfricaTo protect, lobby, promote and develop ethical franchising across all sectors in South Africa with specific focus on transformation. www.fasa.co.za …
MiWay insurance scoops premier in the Ask Africa icon brands survey award
MiWay Insurance has been named South Africa’s best provider of Auto/Car Insurance in this year’s Ask Afrika Icon Brands Survey – an accolade that acknowledges MiWay’s iconic brand status in the South African insurance sector. The results of the survey were released by Ask Afrika, South Africa’s largest independent market research company, on 25 August 2019. The Ask Afrika Icon Brands annual awards recognise brands that South Africans strongly identify with and use most loyally. FASA Franchise Association South AfricaTo protect, lobby, promote and develop ethical franchising across all sectors in South Africa with specific focus on transformation. www.fasa.co.za …
Col’cacchio launches cannabis pizza range
Being ahead of the trends curve is vital in today’s cut-throat food business – so hat’s off to FASA member Col’Cacchio on launching their cannabis pizza range! Italian-inspired restaurant franchise Col’Cacchio and CBD brand africanpure have joined their respective expertise to introduce South Africa’s very first Cannabis pizza range. Following the landmark announcement in recent weeks by the Department of Health, all products that contain a maximum daily dose of 20mg of Cannabidiol (CBD) and are intended for general health enhancement or relief are exempted from the operation of the schedules to the Medicines Act and may now be legally …
Spur secret tribe host chief cook event
Love watching those cooking competitions that not only pit professional chefs against each other but also amateur cooks, families and even children? Well, our very own Spur Steak Ranch has come up with an exciting cooking event. Working with unique South African flavour combinations, experimenting with different ingredients, measurements and cooking styles, but most of all family fun, were the highlights at the Secret Tribe Chief Cook competition recently held at Silwood School of Cookery in Rondebosch, Cape Town. FASA Franchise Association South AfricaTo protect, lobby, promote and develop ethical franchising across all sectors in South Africa with specific focus …
The lipstick effect drives the franchise beauty industry
Based on the theory that in hard times consumers will still buy luxury goods even if there is a crisis, the lipstick effect sees women, for example, instead of buying expensive treatments or clothes, settle for their favourite lipstick or luxury perfume. Capitalising on that global theory, the Health, Beauty & Body sector in South Africa contributes 6% to the ‘franchise pie’ and with 74% of franchises owned by women, this sector continues to perform well despite the struggling economy. FASA Franchise Association South AfricaTo protect, lobby, promote and develop ethical franchising across all sectors in South Africa with specific …
OBC Chicken & Meat welcomes the retail market inquiry
OBC Chicken & Meat was one of the companies that made their submission to the Competition Commission on the power wielded by the major national supermarket chains over enforcing exclusive provisions in their lease agreements against challenger retailers and speciality stores. It welcomes the preliminary findings and will be submitting its comments to the Commission. Tony Da FonsecaTony da Fonseca is the managing director of the OBC Group, an award-winning network of franchised retail butcheries. Under his astute leadership, and despite the depressed economy, the Group has recorded exponential growth over the past few years. It expects to operate 70 …
Sorbet Group posts great results and launches aesthetics concept, Sorbet SK-N
In the current economic climate of belt-tightening and price wars, the Sorbet salon group saw sales jump 19% in the past year, reaching R100 million for the first time with trading profit rocketing by 74%. They also announced the anticipated opening of the new Sorbet SK-N. The hum about town over the past six months was on a new Sorbet Group concept, set to grace South African skin. The rumours were true as loyal Sorbet guests grew excited by the day in anticipation of a first in beauty aesthetics for Sorbet – Sorbet SK-N! FASA Franchise Association South AfricaTo protect, …
Chicken Xpress – The people’s champion opens in Springs
Walk through the popular Springs Mall food court on any given day and you will be attracted to the bright red and orange Chicken Xpress outlet and the queues of people waiting for their taste of a truly South African brand whose values are firmly based around the local community. There you will spot dynamic husband and wife team Perri and Lea making sure that every customer gets the 5-star Chicken Xpress treatment. These enthusiastic franchisees opened their first store in KwaThema in 2018, and their 2nd store in the bustling Springs Mall has proved a great success. “Since we …
Signarama sees strong growth in Q1
Franchising, in these tough times, calls for both the franchisor and its franchisees to work together to weather the economic storm. FASA member Signarama shows how a combination of new marketing initiatives from their side and franchisees willing to invest in growing their businesses can pay dividends. Positive news emerging from the Signarama franchise is that the group has increased turnover by 10,5% in Q1 in 2019. The encouraging start to the year is as a result of several new marketing initiatives being implemented, as well as several franchisees investing in new equipment which has allowed them to increase their …
International Expansion for the OBC Brand
The OBC Group which operates over 50 stores in South Africa opened its first store on foreign soil in the Nhlangano district of the Kingdom of Eswatini. Small wonder, then, that well before 07:00 AM on the day of the grand opening on the 15th March, a throng of shoppers had formed outside the store. Besides wanting to get their hands on some of the exciting opening specials on offer, the OBC’s brand had an established following in Eswatini even before its arrival in the country as many of the locals had visited South Africa or had even lived here …
Signarama welcomes new franchisees
The Signarama Franchise recently celebrated the graduation of several new franchisees who received comprehensive training as part of their induction into the franchise group. FASA Franchise Association South AfricaTo protect, lobby, promote and develop ethical franchising across all sectors in South Africa with specific focus on transformation. www.fasa.co.za …
MULTISERV – A Pioneer in the Personal Services Sector
With a pedigree going back to 1969, Multiserv is one of South Africa’s earliest businesses in the personal services sector with their Shoe Repair, Key Cutting, shoe/leather care products, Self-hire carpet cleaning and apparel services, having originally launched under the store name of Cuthbert’s – a well-known chain of shoe stores at the time. Owned by Amrel, Multiserv, between 1981 and until 1996, had over 300 outlets, with most OK Bazaars stores having Multiserv inside as a service counter – a result of OK Bazaars being part of SAB. When OK Bazaars was purchased from SAB by Shoprite/Checkers in 1985, …
Calling all Franchisees
The success of franchising is largely due to the handful of franchisors, who, almost forty years ago, got together to formalise the business format of franchising along international ethical standards and laid the foundation for what is today the Franchise Association of South Africa. Today the franchise sector boasts around 865 business systems, 45 011 franchisees with an estimated turnover of R721 billion equivalent to 15,7% of the total South Africa GDP. Now that’s something to be proud of! FASA Franchise Association South AfricaTo protect, lobby, promote and develop ethical franchising across all sectors in South Africa with specific focus on transformation. www.fasa.co.za …
Training funds and franchisee start up funds for members
Join FASA in their job creation and empowerment project – training funds and franchisee start up funds for members In the face of increased unemployment to 28.2 percent, FASA’s recent franchise surveys, sponsored by Sanlam, shows that the franchise sector is playing its part with an increase in the total number of people employed in the industry from 343 319 to 369 573. This translates, on average, to each franchisee employing 18 staff members in the business including him/herself. There are, on average 12 full-time and 6 part-time employees – all of whom could benefit by learnership training that promotes learning …
