The Quality Franchise Association are delighted to announce that the Virtual Franchising Awards are open for nominations for 2023. Back for their third year, the awards have previously attracted hundreds of nominations from businesses across the UK.
Free and open to the entire franchising community, the awards promote and celebrate ethical franchising.
This year, the headline sponsors of the awards are Worldpay and the awards are expected to be bigger than ever. Once again there are eight categories of excellence, and businesses can be nominated for up to 3 of each. These categories are:
- Marketing Excellence – Awarding franchises, franchisees and businesses that have excellent marketing that helps their franchise networks and clients.
- Best Franchisee Support – The best franchisee support award recognises franchisors and businesses which go above and beyond to help franchisees.
- Best Franchising Supplier – The best franchising supplier award recognises partners and suppliers of the franchising sector who bring out the best in franchising.
- New Franchisor of the Year – This award recognises new franchises which have successfully set up their franchise network.
- Best Technology & Innovation – This category recognises franchises and businesses which utilise a wide range of technology to help their franchise network and clients thrive.
- Best Adaptation to Change – In a rapidly changing world, the Best Adaptation to Change award recognises businesses which have gone above and beyond to support their franchisees during times of change, either in pandemics or sector changes.
- Franchisee of the Year – This category recognises individual franchisees within the franchise sector
- Franchisor of the Year – The most prestigious award.
We’re delighted to have Barclays and Azura Group onboard as category sponsors this year, with Barclays sponsoring the Franchisee of the Year category, whilst Azura Group are sponsoring Franchisor of the Year. We’re also delighted to welcome Cymphony as sponsors of the Best Franchisee Support category. The Marketing Excellence category is sponsored by Franchiseek.com, a global franchise directory with over 2 decades of franchising experience, whilst New Franchisor of the Year is sponsored by Franchise UK.
Over the coming months, the Quality Franchise Association will be getting to know more about each of the sponsors, before the awards ceremony in January 2023.
