Successful Start For New Blazes Franchise Owner

The Franchise Magazine:

Fire and heating retail franchise Blazes has recruited its latest franchise owner to take over its Wakefield branch. After more than six years in Asia Jane Stuart returned to the UK and took over the Wakefield blazes franchise from retiring franchise owners Pam and Graham Bastow.
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Jane said: “Hong Kong was fantastic, but it was only meant to be for a couple of years! My husband, Paul, works for a multi-national and was offered the chance to head up their Asian buying operating. I went along for a few years’ sabbatical, leaving my job in Urban Development in the North East. Paul’s contract kept getting renewed and, before we knew it, we’d been living out there for over six years. I had a number of jobs on a self-employed basis and that’s where I got a taste for working for myself.

“When the novelty of life in Hong Kong wore off, Yorkshire started to look very attractive again and we had kept our home here in ‘Summer Wine’ country. The Blazes showroom came up for sale and that’s when our thoughts about taking on a franchise were crystallised. We knew the business was well established and we had been familiar with the showroom before we left the UK.

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