On top of investigating and discussing your franchising options, there are several seminars
and presentations planned.

With guidance on how to select the right business opportunity or franchise for you, as
well advice on how to franchise your own business model, these presentatiosl provide
valuable and practical advice from leading industry experts.

	Roy Seaman Founder and Chairman Franchise Development Services Professor Roy Seaman founded Franchise Development Services (FDS) in 1981 and has now been involved in over 500 National and International Franchise Development Programmes for clients in the UK, Europe and around the world. In the course of this, he has built a growing network of regional offices in the UK and overseas – all themselves franchised and delivering the full range of FDS services. A tireless ambassador for Franchising as an economic growth system, he has visited 43 countries promoting and speaking on many subjects to both business owners considering Franchising as a market growth strategy and to foreign governments eager to harness the economic power of Franchising. He also guides investors to obtain Franchise rights from some of the world’s leading brands. FDS has grown to be the world’s largest Franchise development organisation offering a wide range of services from initial evaluation for owners of businesses considering Franchising, to assisting them with the development of a professional infrastructure prior to the recruitment of the Franchise network. FDS has now assisted more than 10,000 people to own either a Single Unit Area or Master Franchise. In recognition of Roy’s work in China, where FDS helped to create a new symbol for business format Franchising in the early 1980s, then course materials and training programmes for the Universities, he was awarded an Honorary Professorship of Franchising from the Bejing Normal University. Roy’s speeches are all carefully planned, with a fascinating historical and statistical backdrop, appropriate anecdotes, passionately delivered and designed above all to educate and motivate delegates. FDS also publishes the award-winning United Kingdom Franchise Directory, The Franchise Magazine, Franchise International, European Franchising and other publications ranging from the Irish Franchise Magazine through to a Spanish Franchise Magazine. Roy is a Fellow of the Institute of Directors and is acknowledged as one of the world’s most sought after speakers in all aspects of National and International Franchising. Many of his clients are today famous brands in the world of Franchising. Small wonder that as early as during the 1980s, Roy was already being referred to by the Institute of Directors as “Europe’s Franchise Boss”. In addition to being a Professor of Franchising, Roy is also a certified Franchise Executive of the International Franchise Association.
	Malcolm Porter, Regional Director Franchise Development Service   Malcolm has first-hand franchise knowledge and a wealth of expertise in training and sales & marketing. Malcolm provides a full range of consultancy and recruitment services developed by FDS