The UK’s leading Commercial Cleaning & Facilities Management Franchise Opportunity
Build a recurring income | be your own boss | grow an asset to sell
Commercial cleaning and facilities management is a vast sector with continuous demand where you manage the needs of your clients, combining your team and the latest tech to deliver the bespoke mix of services their premises require.
Unlimited potential: NO territory restrictions
We have a refreshingly different approach: guiding, supporting and encouraging you to build a larger business, without restricting you to only operating in a small local territory. You can even utilise other franchisees located around the country to deliver your furthest contracts. Win-Win.
Additional income streams from multiple FM services
Your team will deliver the range of repeating relatively simple services, enabling you to build a contracted recurring income. Forge deep client relationships, while continually adding more contracts to grow an asset to sell in the future, all while enjoying a stable monthly income.
The latest cleaning science, tech and robotics
Benefit from the wider group’s experience and buying power to leverage the latest tech to save your cleaning operatives’ time and energy, enabling your NIC business to have a competitive advantage and to maximise profitability with the SME markets you will serve.
No experience needed: 1-2-1 business mentoring
“We believe we provide franchisees the highest level of personal guidance and support of any established franchise in the UK. Typically, each of our full-time Business Development Managers works 1-2-1 with five franchisees; providing ongoing coaching, guidance and support on every element of their business. The support changes as the franchisee confidence grows - it really works.- ”Jo Lock - BDM & Franchise General Manager (and former NIC franchise)
A market-leading brand for your business
Established over 50 years ago, the NIC Services Group has a team of over 10,000 people, serving the UK’s biggest brands. NIC Local benefits from the brand, accreditations, systems, tech and buying power, to target the higher-margin SME market.
Administrative support
We know how to make it easier for you, so you can engage the departments of the group’s vast head office team for supporting your business with functions such as administration, invoicing and credit control giving you valuable time to work on, not in, your business.
Daily Contract Cleaning – a necessity, not a luxury
With 80% of our customers being contracted to regular, often daily, cleans our franchisees businesses remain largely unaffected by seasonal or economic influences. Whilst many other sectors are struggling in the current environment our services have become even more valued.
Franchisees come from a wide range of backgrounds, all hungry to be successful
Leverage your prior career, contacts and sector experience to your benefit. With NIC alongside you, take on higher-margin locally based contracts: schools, colleges, offices, doctors and dental surgeries, retail outlets, university accommodation, car dealerships, pubs and restaurants…
It’s a massive market with no limits to growth and 80% of our customers are contracted for daily cleans.
A journey with guidance every step of the way
Before your business launches, you will undertake a one-week training course at our support office in Leeds. This enables you to really get to know the people at NIC – it’s like joining one big family.
Your role changes as you grow
Initially you can work from your home office, focusing on growing your contracts, with the constant support of your BDM’s 1-2-
1 guidance for every element of your business. This will enable you to learn and grow in confidence as you work together. We don’t know of another franchise with this level of personal mentoring in the UK.
Once your business is established your role elevates to leading your management team, who will oversee your operators. This will free you to focus on maintaining and building client relationships.
Join the NIC Family
NIC Services Group is one of the UK’s largest Contract Cleaning and Facilities Management businesses. Despite our size, with NIC still being family-owned and operated, we are able to retain the culture of a small business where people really do matter.
And with no territory restrictions, you won’t ever run out of target clients!
We have great relationships with the franchise departments of the major high street banks, who have a strong appetite to lend 70% of the start up costs. With a total investment of circa £45,000 including working capital, you will need to invest in the region of £14,000 from your own resources, with bank funding for the rest.
Build from a fresh start, or invest more to buy an existing portfolio. You won’t just build a healthy recuring income with your own NIC business, you will be creating an asset to sell in the future.
Get in touch with Phil to find out more…
Don’t hesitate – make the call that puts your future in your own hands
An introduction to Phil Harrison – NIC Local’s Head of Franchise Recruitment
We are excited to introduce Phil Harrison as the new Head of Franchise Recruitment at NIC Local.
With 20 years of experience in the franchise industry, Phil brings a wealth of expertise and a unique perspective to his role.
Phil’s career began as a Business Development Manager (BDM) for a greetings card distribution franchise, where his dedication and results led to a promotion to National Sales Manager.
This role sparked his passion for franchising, which was further nurtured during his time at the British Franchise Association (BFA). There, he gained a deep understanding of what makes franchising such a powerful business model.
From franchise support to franchisee – and back again!
Phil then moved on to another well-known franchise brand, where he served as Head of Domestic Sales and Franchise. In this role, he was responsible for recruiting, training, and supporting franchisees to help them succeed.
After an internal restructure, Phil took the bold step of becoming a franchisee himself, which was something he had always aspired to do. He acquired a greenfield territory and worked with the goal of building a business to sell within six years.
Thanks to his hard work and dedication, he successfully sold the business after just five-and-a-half years, gaining invaluable insight into the challenges and rewards of franchising from the franchisee’s perspective.
Following a brief return to franchise operations and network development, Phil was excited to take on the opportunity to become Head of Franchise Recruitment at NIC Local.
“We offer the highest level of personal support available”
Discussing what drew him to the NIC Local opportunity, Phil explains: “The NIC brand is well-established and respected within the franchise industry, and the level of support franchisees receive was a key factor.
“With our 1-8 BDM-to-franchisee ratio – which is far better than the industry average of 1-15 or more – we offer franchisees the highest level of personal support available.
“This support spans everything from comprehensive training before launch, to administrative services such as invoicing, credit control, and health and safety compliance. This empowers franchisees to really focus on growing their businesses.”
Phil’s broad experience in franchise operations, network development, and as a franchisee himself gives him a unique perspective on what makes a franchise opportunity truly successful.
Now he’s eager to help others take their own “leap of faith” and build a thriving business with NIC Local!
