Card Connection
Description:
Card Connection is the UK's No 1 greeting card franchise, servicing over 15,000 outlets in Britain and Ireland.
Opportunities:
Re-sale franchises now available in the UK. Master franchise opportunities in France and Spain.
Business Type:
Franchise.
Minimum Investment:
£40,000.
Home-based:
Yes.
News
August 14, 2008
Card Connection Launches New Management Focused Strategy to Help Franchisees Maximise Profits
Card Connection has today announced it has launched a new management focused business strategy to help its franchisees maximise profits.
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June 19, 2008
Innovative Greeting Card Designs Launched by Card Connection
Mums will always be key targets for card publishers and leading greeting card publisher and franchisor, Card Connection, is keeping these important customers happy with two new groups of innovative releases over the coming weeks: Licensed Character cards and Flashing Badge Format cards.
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June 10, 2008
Ireland is ‘Top Trumps’ at Card Connection’s Franchisee Awards
Pat Blake, Card Connection franchisee for Dublin has been named the winner of leading greeting card and publisher, Card Connection’s highly prized Franchisee of the Year award, for achieving the highest level of sales of greeting cards across the company’s team of almost 100 franchisees.
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May 27, 2008
Card Connection Franchisees Rewarded for Referrals
Card Connection announces that four of its UK franchisees have been rewarded with £500 cash because they referred friends or family to buy a Card Connection franchise territory this past year.
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May 8, 2008
Card Connection Franchisee Doubles Size of Business with Acquisition of New Territory
Card Connection has announced its Chelmsford franchisee, Paul Davis, has doubled the size of his business with the acquisition of the neighbouring Colchester territory.
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April 30, 2008
Card Connection Franchisees Improve Productivity by 20% With Introduction of Electronic Hand-Held Terminals
Card Connection announced its franchisees are becoming 20% more productive with the introduction of new electronic hand-held terminals that help calculate stock levels automatically.
April 14, 2008
Card Connection Becomes Part of UK Greetings Ltd
Card Connection has announced it has become part of UK Greetings Limited as of 26 March 2008. UK Greetings (UKG) is the British subsidiary of American Greetings Inc AG. It is the world’s largest publicly owned greeting card company and the largest direct to retail greeting card publisher in the UK.
March 30, 2008
Card Connection Celebrates Success at Sweet Sixteen
Card Connection has this week been celebrating its sixteenth successful year in business with results that managing director Robina Every describes as: “even stronger than expected.”
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March 15, 2008
Card Connection Extends Handmade Card Design Range
Following the success of its initial Handmade greeting card offering leading greeting card publisher and franchisor, Card Connection, has today announced the extension of its Handmade design range.
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February 22, 2008
Card Connection Appoints New Senior Franchise Manager
Card Connection has announced the appointment of Darren Bull as its new senior franchise manager.
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February 18, 2008
Card Connection Franchises Are Popular Choice
Card Connection announced it has recruited 14 new franchisees to run territories throughout the UK and Ireland in the past six months – three already in 2008.
January 30, 2008
Business Expansion is on the Cards
In 2002 Pat Blake was working as a transport manager for Pizza Express in Uxbridge. However, after three years, the gruelling commute to and from Dublin each week finally led him to look for a different career. It was at this point he discovered Card Connection.
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January 15, 2008
Card Connection Strengthens Management Team With New Sales & Franchise Director
Following its best ever year, leading greeting card publisher and franchisor, Card Connection, has strengthened its management team with the appointment of new sales & franchise director, David Whelan. With the goal of further increasing the profitability of Card Connection’s network of franchisees across the UK and Ireland, one of Whelan’s main responsibilities will be to develop and extend the company’s relationship with its national retail account network.
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December 22, 2007
Card Connection Launches Christmas Gift Selection
Card Connection has launched a new selection of seasonal gifts to add to its Gift Connection range, which will be available in retail stores across the UK in time for Christmas.
October 18, 2007
Card Connection to Launch New Memorial Card to Remember Colleague
Card Connection, is launching a new memorial card in memory of Heidi Sulley, one of the company’s business development managers, who sadly passed away in 2005. Part of the sales proceeds from the birthday card which features a humorous design entitled ‘older and better’ will be donated to The Samaritans.
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September 29, 2007
Card Connection Appoints Robina Every as Managing Director
Following its best ever year, Card Connection, has today announced the appointment of Robina Every as its new managing director. Every, who will celebrate her tenth anniversary with Card Connection this month, takes over the day-to-day running of the organisation from company founder Simon Hulme who moves into the role of chairman.
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July 12, 2007
Card Connection Recruits New Franchisees
Card Connection announced the two latest recruits to its greeting card franchise operation as Kuljit Jandoo, who is taking over the Dartford/Gravesend territory, and Bal Pardesi, who is buying the Maidstone/Chatham area. Kuljit and Bal join more than 100 Card Connection franchisees in the UK and Ireland.
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