The franchising of successful brands is a multi-billion dollar global business, but one that requires careful monitoring in order to reduce the risk of bad practice and ‘off-record’ trading. Before considering franchising a brand or business operation, franchisors need to feel confident that their franchisees will operate within the terms of their agreement.

As well as offering due diligence of potential franchisees, we can conduct discreet investigations to ensure, once an agreement is in place, that standards are being maintained and ensure that there is no ‘off-record’ trading. Typical assignments would involve making test purchases and inspections as part of a quality control program and establishing ‘off-record’ trading through covert investigation.