Posted on: 02/07/2009 

THE search this year is to find the UK’s top recession busting franchises and demonstrate ‘Success in Challenging Times’.

It will be run by British Franchise Association’s (BFA) Franchise of the Year Awards and will be sponsored by HSBC Bank and Express Newspapers.

The winner will be walk away with £5,000 followed by the two runners up who will win £3,000 and £2,000 at the International Conventional Centre (ICC) in Birmingham on October 1.

Entry forms are available from the BFA offices, A2 Danebrook Court, Oxford Office Village, Langford Lane, Oxford, OX5ILQ. Otherwise copies from the members only section of the BFA website at www.theBFA.org.