Legal Brief with Alan Tate of Harris Tate www.harristate.co.nz

Once again Tauranga businesses performed well in the Westpac New Zealand Franchise Awards celebrated in Auckland earlier this month.

Our star local performers were:

Exceed Maintenance – Home Services Best Franchise System winner;

Exceed Maintenance – Home Services Best Franchisee winner;

Grout Pro – Franchise Export Award winner;

Paramount Services – Qualified Franchisee – Business services.

The highly contested supreme Franchise System of the Year award went to Paper Plus NZ Limited and the supreme Franchisee of the Year award went to Columbus Coffee Ashburton.

The guest of honour Minister of Commerce Simon Power commented on the substantial contribution to the economy that is made by the franchising sector.

'In entering the Westpac New Zealand Franchise awards each entrant opens up their business to the scrutiny of the evaluators and judges,” says Franchise Association of New Zealand chairman David Foster.
'Through this process those entrants learn more about their business, its strengths and its weaknesses, to enable them to chart the directions for their business to follow for ongoing success.”

The next meeting of the Tauranga Branch of the Franchise Association of New Zealand is on December 7. The system that attendees will learn about at this meeting will be the well known ‘Coffee Guy' whose vans are regularly seen around the region and whose coffee is a joy.
Richard Karam, the Franchisor based in Auckland, is presenting at the meeting, along with local operators Mike Baxter and Francis Fitzgerald.

This will be an interesting event which will demonstrate the tactics used to promote the rapid growth of the Coffee Guy system throughout New Zealand.

To attend the meeting please contact Larissa at Harris Tate, phone 07 578 0059 or email larissa@harristate.co.nz

This article was written by David Foster of Harris Tate Solicitors and Regional Coordinator of the Franchise Association of New Zealand.