Negotiations will continue between Pets Paradise and two former Queensland franchisees, after the decades-old pet care chain was found to have breached the Trade Practices Act by making misleading and deceptive claims when the franchisees signed up.
Franchisees Elizabeth Campbell and Lynda Donnelly, owners of the business Pampered Paws Connection, took legal action on their own behalf and on behalf of other present or former Pets Paradise franchisees, accusing Pets Paradise of misleading and deceptive conduct over a range of claims made when the pair entered into their franchise agreement in 2007.
In a judgement handed down last week in Federal Court in Adelaide, Justice Ronald Mansfield found the majority of the former franchisee’s assertions were… read full post here.