Franchise Information Centre

When choosing to invest in a franchise or business opportunity, you must first assess your personal and professional skills and decide what your strongest and weakest skills are. List your skills by order of preference, so if you like organising; list this as your priority skill. Knowing who you are and what you’re best skills are will be a determining factor in what franchise or business opportunity you decide to invest in.

For a brief history overview of the origins of franchising and how it all started, click on the link provided.

Don’t even consider franchising your business until you have proved that your format really works. We've written the ultimate guide.

The Franchise Show Ireland 2016 is coming to the RDS in Dublin this September.

"Seeing commonplace items treated like novelties was a bizarre experience for me, especially given how many American brands populate Ireland." This is an American's experience of visiting US franchises here in Ireland.

Millennials are proving they’re Generation Entrepreneur. Read our guide to overcoming a possible lack of experience and finance.

Franchise Direct would like to extend warm congrats to this year's impressive winners at the 2016 Irish Franchise Awards.

Franchising is set to continue growing this year and here’s our list of general trends and business categories that we predict will dominate the world of franchising in 2016.

TED Talks is a nonprofit organisation that is devoted to spreading new, interesting, inspiring, and usually entertaining ideas in short powerful talks. We’ve put together the top eight TED Talks that every franchise owner, franchise holder and aspiring franchisee should watch. So put the kettle on, dig out your headphones and use your next break to get motivated! How to get your Ideas to Spread –...

In our latest report, we examine every aspect of franchise territories: what they are, how they are decided upon and what to look for in acquiring one.