Franchising
Utilising the experience, market knowledge and finance of skilled businessmen makes franchising the most efficient way to grow your business and penetrate new markets. However, attracting, selecting and building long-term relationships with the right franchisees is a tricky process to get right. Our experts have the skills, network and experience to draw in the right people, separate the gems from the time-wasters, negotiate, and nurture professional relationships.
What we do
We bring a wealth of global experience and a fresh pair of eyes to your business. In collaboration with your team we can develop a franchise strategy, build or improve the required documents, implement processes and execute the plan. We help you partner with the right people, in the right places for your brand.
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How we do it
Using either our specialist network or trusted partner organizations, we make sure that you have access to the latest industry knowledge as we transform your business into a growing franchise.
Franchise Document Development
Attracting the right franchisees requires detailed and professional documents. It is also essential to have the right legal documents in place to protect yourself.
Process Mapping and Store Operating Procedures
Leaving your brand in the hands of franchisees can be intimidating, but business-wide SOPs ensure high standards are maintained across your stores.
Franchise Strategy
We help franchises develop a strategic plan to meet their long-term objectives.
Audit and Mystery Shopper Process
We can plan and organise these inspections to ensure high standards and an excellent customer experience in far away stores.
Brand Development and Guidelines
It is essential to differentiate by building a unique brand to attract the right customers and franchisees in a competitive market.
Social Media Strategy and Guidelines
Social media is your window to the next generation of consumers. Getting it right is essential for generating sales and avoiding controversy. We can help build a strategy and develop guidelines to ensure franchisees promote the brand effectively.
Protection Procedures
Our experts will review and improve, or implement from scratch, proven procedures to protect your people, profit, premises and processes.
Format Development
Our experts have experience adapting business models into a variety innovative formats.
Store Opening Process
​We can help develop an efficient and consistent process to get your partners trading faster without cutting corners.
Store Design and Fit Out
The design of your store is essential to the customer experience. Our specialists can take your stores to the next level with bespoke designs tailored to your brand.
Colleague Handbook
A concise, yet thorough colleague handbook ensures employees maintain high hygiene, quality and customer service standards within stores.
Global Site Finding and Mapping
Location! Location! Location! Selecting the right sites is essential for reaching your customers. We get down to the detail, finding locations that target your customer demographics and map for future growth.
Store Feasibility Assessment
We assess potential stores for target demographic footfall, safety, profitability and other necessary checks to ensure you maximise your investment and do not have to close stores.
Partner Selection
The partners you choose is possibly the most important factor in determining the success of a franchise. The right franchisees, landlords, suppliers and other third parties can make business easy, efficient, and most importantly, profitable.
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Our extensive global network will open the door to many great opportunities​, allowing us to find the right people who share your values, ambitions and long-term goals. Whether that is family businesses, entrepreneurs, or large companies with existing infrastructure and logistics.
We’re committed to delivering world class service
Retail Metrics specialize in helping busy executive teams, owners and boards take the right decisions about cost optimization.
Retail Metrics are able to open up a network of industry specialists who have led some of the very best global business through tough transitions. Our partners are practitioners, not consultants and it is this hands on experience that can make the difference for your business.
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At Retail Metrics we can provide flexible and tailored consulting and coaching, but we can also write the strategy, manage a business or project, and execute a business plan; offering hands on delivery for a thorough range of retail challenges.
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Retail Metrics are transforming the industry by giving businesses access to proven senior practitioners at competitive consulting rates. We offer flexible work and payment options that can adapt as we work together.
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Why not partner with us?
Success for us is obviously about helping business during these tough trading conditions, hence our focus on optimization. But we are building Retail Metrics as a platform that is able to quickly connect senior experienced leaders with businesses that need specific skills or solutions. This might be for a fixed term project, a recurring weekly or monthly meeting or coaching session and as your requirements change, so can your retail practitioner.
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At Retail Metrics we like grey hair, in fact we believe that it really helps if our practitioners have been there and done it before. But grey hair alone is not enough, all our practitioners have been personally recommended and we make sure that they have definitely earned the t-shirt!
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