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Recognition Express

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Description: We will show you how to maximise the opportunity and minimise the risk with Recognition Express, winner of the British Franchise Association's Franchisor of the Year Award.
Opportunities: Franchises available in all areas of the UK only.
Business Type: Franchise.
Minimum Investment: £15,000.
Financing Assistance: Yes, through a third party.
Training Provided: Yes.
Home-based: Yes.

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Recognition Express Encourages Women into Franchising

January 25, 2012. Europe’s leading promotional gift and branded clothing franchise, Recognition Express, is sponsoring the EWIF Award for New Woman Franchisee of the Year 2011.

BUSINESSMAN HELPS OUT WORLD RECORD HOLDER

January 23, 2012. A BUSINESSMAN who specialises in creating badges and branded products of every shape and description has just landed one of the most unusual jobs in a decade of running his own company.

TOP POLICEMAN TURNED BUSINESSMAN SPONSORS COUNTRYSIDE AWARD

December 7, 2011. A FORMER top policeman turned businessman has sponsored an award which has honoured the green efforts of a youngster from Wednesfield.

Road Safety Competition A Huge Success For Recognition Express

December 1, 2011. Staff at Recognition Express, the leading European franchise in promotional products, branded gifts and school uniforms, are thrilled at the success of their annual Schools Road Safety competition. Over 8,200 entries were received, from 180 primary schools across England, Wales and Scotland.

Bardon Group Board Strengthened by Top Appointment

November 30, 2011. John Pratt, one of the franchise industry’s leading international legal experts, has been appointed by the Bardon Group as a non-executive director.Within the Bardon Group are the Recognition Express, ComputerXplorers and The ZipYard franchise brands, and Managing Director Nigel Toplis is delighted that John Pratt has agreed to bring his experience to the main board.

MPs Hear Franchising Will Help Economy

November 9, 2011. Representatives from Recognition Express, ComputerXplorers and the ZipYard franchises led the British Franchise Association delegation to the Houses of Parliament this week.

Kids Say Slow Down With Recognition Express

August 30, 2011. Recognition Express, the UK’s leading promotional product and personalised clothing franchise, has announced that it will be supporting Road Safety Week (21 - 27 November 2011) for the third year in row, by running a Design a Road Safety Banner competition amongst primary schools across the UK.

Guilford Businessman smashes trading figures

August 24, 2011. Promotional products specialist Nick Manning, owner of Recognition Express Guildford has won a top business award two months running. Nick was presented with crystal trophies by Recognition Express managing Director Nigel Toplis for achieving record sales during the months of May and June.

Charity match nets £4,000 for children’s charity

July 29, 2011. A CHARITY celebrities v franchise industry football match has raised thousands of pounds for two appeals.

Recognition Express Lancashire Teaches Local Children How to Make Mugs

July 19, 2011. On Wednesday 6 July Howard Ashworth, co-owner of Recognition Express, visited Year 6 pupils at St Mary Magdalen’s CE Primary School in Accrington, to teach them how to print their own mugs, with a special design created by the class, to keep as a memento of their time at the school.

Recognition Express Backs New Awards For Women In Franchising

June 17, 2011. ONE of the country’s leading franchise companies has backed a new awards scheme aimed at getting more women involved in the sector.

Recognition Express South Bucks Champions Under 14’s Football Team

March 31, 2011. Beaconsfield based promotional products and personalised clothing franchise, Recognition Express South Bucks, is showing its support for Holtspur FC by sponsoring the team’s Under 14’s training jackets in a deal worth over £900.

Recognition Express North Staffordshire sponsor rural policing award

March 25, 2011. A former police officer who now runs his own business has sponsored an award at the Staffordshire Rural Policing Liaison Group (RPLG) Countryside Awards. Keith Walker, owner of Recognition Express North Staffordshire, sponsored the young persons award which went to a volunteer on the Trentham Estate.

Recognition Express West Scotland celebrates 30 years of business

March 3, 2011. Ayr business Recognition Express West Scotland is celebrating its 30th birthday this month.Recognition Express West Scotland was started in March 1981 by Harry and Shonach McFarlane, the mother and father of current owner Ciorsdan.

Come Fly With Recognition Express

February 16, 2011. Staff at Kettering based promotional product and personalised clothing franchise Recognition Express, were surprised to receive an unusual order from Tresham College of Further and Higher Education, for embroidered head rests to adorn the seats of the colleges own BAC 1/11 airplane, situated within its grounds!

Recognition Express Colleagues Conquer Kilimanjaro

January 4, 2011. Nigel Toplis, managing director of the Bardon Group that includes the franchise brands Recognition Express and ComputerXplorers and Recognition Express franchisee Russell Golding have just returned from a 10 day charity mountain trek up Mount Kilimanjaro where they were part of a five man WellChild charity team raising over £30,000.

Recognition Express Inundated With Road Safety Competition Entries

November 15, 2010. Recognition Express has received over 1300 entries from school across the UK, in response to its ‘Design A Road Safety Banner’ competition, which it is running for the second year in a row, alongside the national road safety charity, Brake.

Epiphany Led Matt to Set up his own Business

November 12, 2010. The owner of Recognition Express Bristol urges anyone thinking of going self employed to take the risk and follow their heart.

Recognition Express North Wales supplies t-shirts for charity walk

September 17, 2010. Recognition Express North Wales, local specialists in promotional gifts, personalised clothing and school uniform, have provided the t-shirts for an annual charity walk organised by the Red Cross.

Recognition Express says ‘20 is Plenty’

August 23, 2010. …and asks children to Design a Road Safety Week Banner

High Visibility Support for Cockermouth Street Angels

July 1, 2010. Six months after devastating floods swept through Cockermouth in Cumbria the community is still working hard to repair the damage.

Young Sports Stars Dressed to Impress Thanks to Recognition Express Coventry

May 24, 2010. For the second year running Recognition Express Coventry is supporting young athletes from Coventry and Warwickshire, by providing them with special team ‘hoodies’ to celebrate their CAP Bursary Scheme awards.

Franchising Guru to Join WellChild Kilimanjaro Trek

April 30, 2010. Leading champion of franchising, Nigel Toplis will be taking part in a charity mountain climb this December.

Redundancy opens new door for Sam and Runa

April 15, 2010. When Sam Giddy, 41, saw voluntary redundancy looming he saw it as a perfect opportunity to realise his dream of running his own business. Three months later and, together with his wife Runa, Sam is launching Recognition Express Birmingham Tamworth, specialising in the supply of a wide range of branded products, promotional giveaways, personalised clothing, badges and just about anything you can put a logo on!

Recognition Express Stock the Shelves For New Brewery Shop

April 15, 2010. Ian Marshall, owner of Recognition Express Wolverhampton, is delighted to have been chosen as the official merchandise supplier for the new Banks’s Park Brewery Shop, which opens to the public on Wednesday 31 March.

Recognition Express Wakefield celebrates five years of business

April 6, 2010. Nigel Hawkin, owner of Recognition Express Wakefield is celebrating five years of business this month and has marked the occasion by planting a young cherry tree on a site close to his premises.

Steve and Paul Help Ice Hockey Champions

February 26, 2010. With the winter Olympics in full swing in Canada, on this side of the Atlantic one local business is a bit of a specialist when it comes to providing clothing and promotional merchandise for ice-hockey teams.

The Ring of Success

February 25, 2010. Listening to the customer is the key to success. Finding out exactly what his customer needed has led to a large re-order for owner of Recognition Express Newbury Keith Burr.

Recognition Express Esssex ‘Quick as a Flash for County Council!

February 15, 2010. When Essex County Council’s inward investment department ‘INVEST Essex’ needed 1000 fully customised USB flashdrives in a hurry, Graham Marshall & his team at Recognition Express in Essex rose to the challenge producing them in just 7 days including importing the flashdrives from China.

Recognition Express Helps Out with Gifts for Young Cancer Patients

December 21, 2009. Nigel Hawkin, owner of Recognition Express Wakefield is donating gifts to the Laura Crane Trust, a youth cancer charity which sends gifts to the 400 young people aged 13-24 across the UK that are suffering from cancer and who will be spending their Christmas day in hospital, often miles away from home, family and friends.

Recognition Express Network Vote Listawood Top Supplier 2009

December 10, 2009. Recognition Express has voted Listawood, a manufacturer of promotional products based in Fakenham, their Supplier of the Year 2009.

Recognition Express helps to fill Samaritans Purse

December 2, 2009. When father and son team, Keith and Rob Walker, owners of Recognition Express North Staffordshire, found they had a surplus of 500 packs of coloured pencils and wax crayons they immediately thought of the Operation Christmas Child project run by Samaritans Purse.

Road Safety Competition Success Delights Recognition Express

November 19, 2009. Recognition Express, Europe’s leading supplier of corporate recognition products, has been inundated with nearly 700 entries from primary schools across the country, in response to its Design A Road Safety Mug competition, run in partnership with Brake, the road safety charity behind Road Safety Week (23-29 November 2009).

Hey – there’s our Port-a-ledge! Recognition Express does it for Leo

October 9, 2009. WHEN world-class climber Leo Houlding climbed to the top of Mount Asgard and jumped 1,350 metres to the bottom in a wing-suit and parachute, there was one man in Cumbria holding his breath.

Recognition Express spreads Road Safety message in primary schools

September 25, 2009. Recognition Express, the UK’s leading supplier of promotional products, corporate gifts and branded clothing, is running a competition with primary schools across the UK, asking pupils to ‘Design a Road Safety Mug’ to raise awareness about road safety.

40 fundraising ways to celebrate 40 years

September 11, 2009. Brothers Alex and Bill Newman, owners of Recognition Express Coventry are helping Nuneaton mum Sarah Wood chart her progress as she completes 40 fund raising events in a year to celebrate her 40th birthday, by designing and donating a new T-shirt every few months to promote all her forthcoming activities.

Stuart wins award for rock solid business

August 25, 2009. Starting a business in a recession isn’t the easiest choice, but it’s one that has paid off for Stuart Fisher, owner of Recognition Express Harrow, who has just been awarded ‘New Franchisee of the Year’ after a rock solid first year of trading.

Huge Badge Contract for Manchester Business

August 20, 2009. Recognition Express Manchester has won a massive order for 9000 name badges and 9000 mouse mats from the Britannia Building Society /Co-operative Financial Services following their recent merger.

Ayr Couple Receive Award for Business Excellence

August 13, 2009. A dynamic husband and wife team have been honoured for their business success

Recognition Express Southern key rings take a slow boat to St Helena

August 10, 2009. This franchise explores business opportunities in some distant waters

West Scotland Franchise Recognised for Business Excellence

August 4, 2009. Scottish husband and wife Recognition Express team win the Terry Howarth Memorial Award for Excellence in Business 2008/09.

Wigan business pins down bumper badge deal

July 29, 2009. When Recognition Express Wigan & Wirral got an order for 2,000 badges, it was no ordinary mission.

Hoodies for local ice-hockey players, fencers, long jumpers, golfers……

July 8, 2009. Recognition Express Coventry, a leading supplier of corporate gifts, promotional products, badges and branded clothing. has donated special embroidered hoodies for 24 young athletes who have been selected for the CSW Sport CAP bursary scheme this year.

It’s the Right Stuff for White Stuff

July 7, 2009. Recognition Express Southern is brimming with festival fever after securing a deal with clothing retailer White Stuff.

Ayrshire Outsiders triumph 10-0 at Celtic Challenge charity match!

June 19, 2009. The recent Celtic Challenge between Colwyn Bay Fans and Ayrshire Outsiders raised a fantastic £2151.88 in aid of Boots for Charity, an organisation that sends old football boots to disadvantaged children in Africa.

Glasgow University Flies the Kite for Customer Care

June 18, 2009. Glasgow University has engaged Recognition Express West Scotland to help develop its own quality ‘kite mark’ to motivate staff to uphold the highest standards of customer care, and create a positive and enjoyable experience, for people who use the University.

Now is the Ideal Time to Promote Local Businesses

June 12, 2009. After a career in marketing where he was responsible for buying promotional items, Keith Burr has set up his own business in Newbury specialising in corporate recognition products such as badges, personalised clothing, signs, business gifts, plaques and promotional products!

Recognition Express business helps Defence Academy create new College image

June 2, 2009. Recognition Express in Swindon has just completed a re-branding exercise, to help the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom launch its newly unified College of Management and Technology.

Working from home (in the back garden!)

May 20, 2009. When the lease came to an end on his office in the town centre, local businessman Steve Gledhill, decided it was time for a change. He gave up the tenancy on the dilapidated building and set to work on building his own premises in the back garden of his home in Mulbarton.

Ian follows in his family’s footsteps

May 14, 2009. After nearly 20 years in the gas industry, local man Ian Marshall is starting his own business, Recognition Express Wolverhampton & Telford, specialising in supplying printed products, such as badges, signs, mugs, pens, promotional products, clothing and much more, to businesses, schools and local authorities.

Schoolchildren learn numbers by t-shirt, courtesy of Recognition Express

May 6, 2009. Learning by numbers is a whole lot easier at Pinewood Infant School in Farnborough, thanks to Recognition Express.

Ollie and his dad fix hoodies for school leavers

April 23, 2009. Enterprising Ollie Slack is not head boy of Greenacre School for nothing. He picked up a leaflet offering hoodies for school leavers, and asked his businessman dad if he could come up with a better deal.

Streets awash with eager fundraisers

April 17, 2009. On Saturday 4th April, people queued up at Marlow fire station, in Marlow in Bucks, to get their cars washed, and managed to raise £1,756 for 16 year old, Elisha Herbert who is suffering from a benign brain tumour.

Calling Local Schools - Win a Free Sports Kit!

April 15, 2009. On Wednesday 29th April local schools from Slough, Maidenhead and Windsor are invited to attend an information evening at the Tithe Barn, Tithe Court, Langley, hosted by the owners of Recognition Express Thames Valley, Paul and Edwina Mitchell.

Husband and wife team from Recognition Express take helm at business networking group

April 9, 2009. A husband and wife team from Alton-based Recognition Express have taken the helm of a local networking group.

Ducati Fan Becomes Part of The Team

April 7, 2009. Graham Marshall, owner of Recognition Express Essex, has been a lifelong fan of Ducati Italian Motorcycles, so he was quick to respond when Jason Boswell of Kapital Moto Racing, who are racing a Ducati this summer, put out a request for a supplier of race-wear on the Ducati Sporting Club online message board.

Five Years Getting Businesses Recognised

April 3, 2009. This week Sally and Adam Findlay, owners of Recognition Express Mid-Surrey based in East Molesey, celebrate 5 years in business helping local businesses to promote themselves.

David Does Scuba Diving, Walking- And Promotional Gifts

April 1, 2009. DAVID Pugh isn’t worried about the recession – he’s diving into a new business.

Recognition Express Introduces Transport Co. to the World of Promotional Gifts

March 19, 2009. Alton-based Recognition Express has secured a new convert to the world of promotional gifts.

Recognition expert’s university teaching fellowship extended

March 13, 2009. Nigel Toplis, managing director of Hinckley-based Recognition Express, has had his appointment as Honorary Teaching Fellow at Lancaster University’s Institute for Entrepreneurship & Enterprise Development extended for another three years.

Badgemaker Kevin to the Rescue

March 12, 2009. One of the benefits of having your own manufacturing facility is that products can be made very quickly if necessary.

Support Cancer Research UK

March 11, 2009. Local business Recognition Express Coventry donated branded bags for the UK’s first Ultimate Frisbee fundraising tournament, held by the LUCRE (Lemmings Ultimate and Cancer REsearch) to raise money for Cancer Research UK.

Stuart Fisher Case Study

March 10, 2009. Name : Stuart Fisher, Recognition Express Harrow; Commenced Trading : January 2008; Previous Job : Finance Director- Exhibition & Conference Venue

Anti-piracy t-shirts make a splash

February 24, 2009. Branded goods experts Recognition Express in Horndean have produced t-shirts with an anti-piracy slogan for the Royal Navy’s patrol near Somalia.

Who wants to be an Entrepreneur?

February 12, 2009. Hull-based badge and promotional products business Recognition Express has donated five Valentines themed t-shirts to a team taking part in ‘Who wants to be an entrepreneur’, set up by national charity Young Enterprise.

New Owners Expand Local Badgemaking Firm

February 4, 2009. Since Steve Randerson, 25, and Paul Slack, 54 took over as new owners of Recognition Express in Kent business has flooded in. So much so that they have moved to larger premises in the Medway Enterprise Centre to meet growing production demands.

Recognising the importance of energy efficiency

January 20, 2009. The UK’s top supplier of corporate gifts, badges and clothing, Recognition Express, is leading the way in the franchising world when it comes to reducing its impact on the environment. They’ve achieved CarbonZero status for the second year running and become members of the Carbon Zero Federation.

Ten Years and Still Going Strong

January 16, 2009. When Jonny Masters was 17 yrs old he joined Recognition Express Ltd in Coalville (originally based in Hinckley) as a Production Operative, printing and packing name badges.

The Explorers Return

January 9, 2009. Weary explorers, Gavin Booth and Adam Wilton, have returned from their two month Antarctic quest in which they raised over £20,000 for the United Kingdom Heritage Trust and their campaign to save Scott’s Hut.

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