Why not own and operate a trusted and valued business in the Commercial Automotive Industry with an award-winning Screen Rescue Franchise?
Many service-leavers struggle with the return to civilian life and take up franchise ownership in their mission to find a role that continues to fulfil, motivate, and challenge them.
With transferrable skill sets ideally suited to most franchise systems and a proven business model to follow closely, franchise ownership can provide a robust safety net for ex-forces yearning to be their own boss.
Screen Rescue is the UK’s only award-winning franchise providing a wide range of vital windscreen and glass repair services to all sectors of the thriving Commercial Automotive Industry, now worth £67bn to the UK economy.
Our purpose is simple: we repair windscreen and glass damages on a regular and reliable basis rather than replacing them, so that hundreds of our commercial automotive clients continue to make significant savings every day.
Our clients include new and used car garages, freight, haulage, transport, distribution and logistics carriers as well as school transport, mini-bus and coach hire, and public transport. Even civil engineering and construction companies together with local government, essential services and major fleet operators all enjoy the ‘wow!’ factor of our unbeaten repair results.
Screen Rescue provides an excellent opportunity for those seeking the freedom and flexibility of running a van-based franchise from home where the more clients you look after, the more repeat business you carry out; the more you can earn.
The franchise license comes with a protected territory designed to deliver the maximum reward for your efforts so you can build a multi-van operation and scale up your franchise in line with your real ambitions.
Full training and award-winning franchisee support is provided in all areas of this franchise business, so no previous experience is required. The business model is simple to learn; highly profitable and easy to manage with Head Office support from Screen Rescue. Generating repeat business and multiple revenue streams, the rewards for hardworking franchisees really are unlimited.
There is no better time to join Screen Rescue. In January’s VFA23 Awards we collected ‘Best Franchisee Support’ Gold Award Winner and last year our Stevenage franchisee, Keith Harrison picked up ‘Franchisee of the Year’ Gold Award Winner in the VFA22 franchise awards, as judged and sponsored by Barclays Bank. In the VFA24 awards, record breaking franchisee, Glenn Bowker is already nominated for ‘Franchisee of the Year’.
We are on a mission to recruit ambitious franchisees with the drive and energy to be their own boss. If you are looking to return to civilian life and want to take up a business with real purpose, owning and operating a Screen Rescue franchise business could be the right resettlement opportunity for you. But don’t just take our word for it.
The franchise package
• Unlimited earning potential
• Large exclusive protected territory
• Scalable proven business model
• Unrivalled gqa nvq & 4m advanced repairs training
• Multiple revenue streams
• 10-Day induction training
• 10-Day in-territory assisted launch with franchisor
• 10-Year renewable franchise license
• Comprehensive training & coaching programmes
• Award-winning franchisee support
• Head office invoice, collections & administration support
• Lead generation
• QFA (Quality Franchise Association) full members
CASE STUDY: Franchisee, Glenn Bowker
TERRITORY: Screen Rescue BIRMINGHAM
TRADING TIME: 12 Months
TURNOVER Y1: £103,980
GROSS PROFIT MARGIN: 87.2%
OPERATING VANS: 1
Q1.
Why did you decide to become a franchisee and start this franchise business?
I had come to a point in my life where I needed to make a definitive decision as to which direction I wanted my future working life to take and after much thought and soul searching I decided that I wanted to be my own boss and the Screen Rescue business model ticked the boxes that I was looking for in being able to manage my own business alongside the extensive support they provided.
Q2.
What research did you do before choosing Screen Rescue?
I performed as much local market research as possible, including looking at the numbers of potential clients in each business sector and trying to find out as much as I could about my local competition to see what kind of market may exist for the commercial screen repair services
Q3.
What were the challenges you faced, and how did you overcome them?
Initially it was a big challenge to get enough decision makers to talk to me and discuss my service offering but with tenacity and calling back, I managed to speak with them and once I was able to demonstrate my capabilities I repeatedly signed up new clients for regular fleet checking services over the first 3-4 months.
Q4.
How have your daily activities changed now you’re in month 12 of trading?
My time is now spent mainly providing my repair services to my current client base rather than selling to new potential clients, because I’m pretty much at full capacity for a single van operation.
Q5.
How do your client numbers look now vs when you first started trading?
I currently have around 90 active clients and I’m still adding approximately 1-3 clients per month on average.
Q6.
What makes your business unique?
Alongside offering both chip and scratch repair – which no other provider in my area seems to do – I feel my professionalism, my repair quality and my reliability is what really sets my business apart from the competition.
Q7:
How do you feel about setting a brand-new Screen Rescue record of £103,980 turnover in your first trading year?
I’m absolutely delighted with how the first year’s trading has gone. My original revenue target was for around £50k in my first year so the actual performance being double that has way exceeded my expectations of what the franchise business model could offer so early in the process. The challenge now is to keep producing consistent results in my second year.
Q8.
What do you most enjoy about working for yourself?
I love the flexibility working for myself provides and the lack of any stifling corporate culture and structure.
Q9.
What would you say are your top three skills and attributes that helped to get you there?
I really don’t think the answer is that complex; just a mixture of hard work, tenacity, delivering high quality repairs and being consistently reliable for your customers while following the proven business model – it does what it says on the tin.
Q10.
What is the greatest challenge you now face?
To keep the jobs rolling in and ensure I continue to use my time as effectively as possible. It genuinely does help with the daily support I receive from Head Office – without them I’d be desk bound chasing invoice payments and pushing paperwork.
Q11.
What are the qualities of a successful entrepreneur?
Hard work, tenacity, having a good understanding of which jobs and which clients make money and prioritising them accordingly while having a good handle on your P&L on an ongoing basis.
Q12.
What advice would you give to any other franchisee considering joining Screen Rescue?
Do your local market research and understand the local business potential.
Q13.
What plans do you have over the next three years?
I plan to consolidate and stabilize the business for the next 6-12 months and then look at possible expansion of a new technician in the Birmingham area and then also review the possibility of expanding the operation into new postcode areas in the Midlands in the mid to long term.
Screen rescue
• Vfa24 glenn bowker nominated: franchisee of the year
• Vfa23 gold winners: best franchisee support
• Vfa22 gold winner: franchisee of the year
• Vfa22 silver winner: best franchisee support