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Expansion Challenges & Opportunities 2016 @ International Retail Franchise Summit

This year discussion was enriched by particularly strong contributions from senior representatives of some of the world's leading fashion, food, convenience and toy brands, as well as the hospitality industry. Focusing on mutual profitability as the life-blood of franchising and healthy business relations, speakers stressed partnership flexibility coupled with consumer understanding as key success factors, occasionally with persuasive reminders of the strains that can be caused when thes...

Putting your Brand in the Right Hands, Markets & Homes

At Going Global's recent event in London Olympia, December 2015, Sarah Pavlou, our Managing Director and Founder of Kyclo, spoke about putting your Brand into the right Hands, Markets and Homes when expanding into new markets. "When on holiday and purchasing an item in a foreign currency, have you ever mentally translated the value of that item into a currency you know and understand?" Now imagine when a country changes currency permanently. Perhaps it is going into Europe. Think of the posi...

Today's Franchise Challenges and Future Expectations

Delighted to be a Member of the Advisory Board for the International Retail Franchise Summit IRFS, (www.irfsummit.com) the MD of Kyclo, Sarah Pavlou came together with the Senior Executive team of Legend Exhibitions and Heads of International Expansion of a number of key Retailers to address the current needs and future trends of what makes for Successful International Retail Franchising ...

Breaking down Borders in Retailing

In a world of vast economic and political change, markets are evolving and the process of being globally connected and educated at the touch of a button, offers the opportunity for international retail growth at a whole new level and pace. Not only are companies evolving and adapting to market changes but so too are customers. Retail is no longer restricted by borders but is in fact changing the way people live. Through bricks and mortar as well as multichannel facets international retail bran...

Team Ingredients

A team at its best is when the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. A Team does not only mean a group of people working together but a team of different people working together.     How one defines these differences could be based on skill, knowledge, talent, culture, age, experience etc but what is without doubt essential is, in order to make a team a success there has to be a combination of these differences between the team players, in order to greater the success of the...

Personality a Priority in Business

Are you a personality in business and does your business have personality?  In today’s world where going global is fast becoming the future for business success, the people factor is something far greater than perhaps first thought.   Having a Brand name, a product and /or service is no longer enough. The conventional skills of being a good communicator, both in person and on paper, having the ability to embrace change with a ’can do’ attitude and ensuring you are effi...

Going Global with your Business

Having worked in the field of international franchising for over ten years the most commonly asked questions from those looking to take their brand global for the first time are, “where should I open my business internationally and what are the challenges in managing businesses on a global level? “   Both are very important questions however the questions that are often forgotten and should in fact be a priority are,  “who are the companies that are doing well internatio...