As we went to press, the Cartridge World great and good were meeting in the USA to hear the words of wisdom from new CEO Steve Weedon on how the franchise is going to move forward – away from a service-orientated franchise to a product-orientated franchise that is looking to compete in the B2B channel space.
It’s a big challenge, especially as franchisees are exiting at a great rate of knots. A press release issued this week suggested that there were now only 1,000 stores, well down from a peak of 1,800 a few years ago.