Franchisee Testimonials – Kevin Harden

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Kevin Harden of ServiceMaster Clean Contract Services Mercia has been a franchisee for 10 years and has built up his territories to cover East, South & Central Birmingham, Coventry, Mercia and North Warwickshire. 

We managed to catch Kevin for 5 minutes to ask him a few questions as to owning his own business, choosing the cleaning sector and of course, partnering with us!

Here’s what he had to say on choosing the cleaning sector…

Here’s what he had to say on owning his own business…

And finally, here’s what he had to say on partnering up with us! 

If you’d like to find out more about a ServiceMaster Clean franchise, give our Franchise Sales team a call on 0116 275 9005 or email franchisesales@servicemaster.co.uk for further information 

Franchisee Testimonials – Siva Kugathas

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Siva is one of our newest franchisees to join the network and joined us in early 2017 

Having worked in senior roles in franchising in both the UK and Europe, Siva wanted to tackle something for himself and bought an existing business in the Contract Services network. With high hopes of doubling turnover in the first 18 months, Siva is not afraid of a challenge and had this to say about his relationship with ServiceMaster Clean almost two years on …

“I have owned my franchise for almost two years and have worked closely with Guy Strang (Brand Operations Manager) and Vicky Tayler (Marketing Executive) at ServiceMaster UK Ltd, as well as the existing franchise network to achieve my goals in business.

I set myself some pretty tough targets to achieve within the first two years and I have already exceeded my year two target with a few months to spare!

I have also been able to help others in the franchise network using my own experiences and expertise which is very rewarding. It’s good to give help as well as receive it.”

Siva’s experience and zest for business is welcome in our franchise network of hard working and driven business owners. We are sure he will achieve big things with his ServiceMaster Clean Contract Services business.

 

For further information on our existing and new franchise opportunities in the ServiceMaster Clean Contract Services network, call 0116 275 9005 or email franchisesales@servicemaster.co.uk to receive our prospectus 

 

Franchisee Testimonials – Chris Blewitt

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Chris Blewitt is one of our newest franchisees to join the network and joined us in early 2018 

Having kindly took the time out of his busy schedule of quoting clients and managing his team, Chris has given us an insight in to his buying decisions in purchasing his business by answering the following three questions…

Q. What made you want to own your own business?
A. Lots of reasons..!

  • Fed up of not being in control of my own destiny
  • Fed up of working very hard for poor managers that didn’t appreciate me
  • Wanted to earn more than an average income
  • At an age and point in my career where I needed a new challenge
  • Need more security going forward – recognising in the short term I might have less security but that in the long term I would have much more security

Q. Why did you choose to partner up with ServiceMaster Clean?
A. Lots of reasons..!

  • Low franchise fees and sliding scale were attractive
  • People I thought I could work with
  • Long established brand
  • Low cost entry
  • Experienced brand operations managers
  • MD was prepared to say hello and have a chat

Q. What would your advice be to someone looking to start their own business with a franchise?
A. Really research it thoroughly and particularly focus on the financials.

We asked Chris if he had anything that he’d like to add…

If a true service business is what you want to do and you want a real management franchise, as an all-round package, I don’t think there is a better opportunity in the market place than ServiceMaster Clean Contract Services. I researched the world of franchising really thoroughly and this opportunity, I thought, was tremendous value-for money initially and as the business grows. My expectations were conservative, after just a couple of months I can see that the reality is that they will be far, far, exceeded.