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Simon McNeill-Ritchie : Helping you to recruit pre-qualified and fully-funded franchisees

Find out how you can access pre-qualified and funded candidates for your franchise system. FranchisingWorks is an innovative programme aiming to reduce unemployment by helping the unemployed create new businesses and jobs through franchising. It has also developed a unique fund to lend to successful candidates with insufficient financial resources of their own.

Simon McNeill-Ritchie was executive chairman of a public company listed on AiM which became one of the UK’s largest franchise companies, with 12 individual franchise systems, 800+ franchisees and operations in 14 countries. A former British diplomat, Simon was subsequently a director at a leading City corporate finance house for early-stage, providing corporate finance and fundraising services. He has an MBA from CASS Business School, London.