Franchise Group Ireland helps small to medium sized enterprises grow their businesses through franchising. It takes successful businesses and multiplies their sales and profits by applying its unique Upside-Down Franchising System. “We’re not consultants in the traditional sense of the word. We partner with successful companies to develop a successful franchise operation with an international reach”.

The company also works with enterprises to get their business franchise ready through an ‘incubator’ offering. Here businesses are coached on how to develop a successful pilot in advance of launching a franchise. The company is expanding its Partner base throughout Ireland. Currently it has two Senior Franchise Partners and four Franchise Partners. The Seniors, Tony Dignam and Richard Lowry, are both chartered accountants with a wealth of business experience. The Senior Partners perform the feasibility assessment on all prospective clients, doing an in- depth competitive analysis, identifying what (if any) the unique selling proposition is to the end customers, reviewing the financial performance of the pilot, and assessing how attractive the business proposition is to the prospective franchisees. The four Franchise Partners, Paul Spiller, Michael Noonan, Mike Harman and Finbar McCann are highly qualified professionals with extensive business management experience.

The Partners perform all the project management involved in the launch of a franchise system; defining the most suitable structure in terms of layers, developing the operations manual, defining the appropriate contracts, developing all the launch marketing materials, recruiting and training franchisees, developing the franchise support services, and managing the performance of the franchise network. The company is currently working with a broad range of ‘business formats’ ranging from management franchises to premises based (restaurant / retail) to man-in-a-van to home based. Clients include Recharge Cartridges, Hibernian Cleaning, Casa Carers, The Ultimate Floor Sanding Company, Gallagher’s Boxty House, Business Finance Plus, and Cyberhut (a unique first to market electronic payment kiosk franchise). For further information, please see our listing on this site: