Established in 1969, Oakleaf
has become one of the UK’s leading manufacturers of decorative and period mouldings, offering a wide range of unique and high quality products.
The company launched its franchise opportunity in October 2001 at the National Franchise Exhibition after recognising the importance of providing customers throughout the country with easy access to its niche products and services. Most importantly by using the franchising route, Oakleaf could achieve its goals of allowing customers the facility to appreciate first hand the quality of its products and sharing its success with its franchise owners.
“Despite our then 30 plus successful years’ trading,” says Jonathan. “we wanted to provide a better service to the homeowner, a market from which we were enjoying steadily increasing demand.
Franchising had been recommended to us by consultants hired to assess our marketing strategy and I believe for two key reasons.