Sales leads are the lifeblood of a successful business – which is why a family with years of experience in the automotive sector chose to expand their business by joining The Wheel Specialist franchise.

Has lockdown made you decide to fulfil your dream of running your own business? If that means changing your career, consider investing in a franchise.

In the first full month open after lockdown, network sales reached a new record: 10% up on our previous best, and 13% up on July 2019.

The Wheel Specialist is the UK’s only national alloy wheel refurbishment company to operate from fixed premises. This experienced and growing franchise hosted their 10th annual conference shortly before the coronavirus lockdown, following another record breaking year in 2019.

Catch up with the owners of the Ribble Valley territory. Find out how they split the day-to-day, life through (and since) lockdown, and what it’s like to franchise with your partner.

Ginny, our CEO & Founder, recently caught up with In Automotive to give an insight into franchising and how it works, and how she developed her own career.

It all begins with an idea.

The Wheel Specialist has reported impressive growth, with signs the sector remains unaffected by the country’s biggest drop in new car sales since 2008. Thankfully for TWS, used car sales are up, which only means more wheels to be refurbished after taking a thrashing on Britain’s pothole laden roads.

A rise in sales of 14% saw the national Franchise turnover almost £10 Million in 2017, flying in the face of the years predicted fall in overall new car sales.

The Wheel Specialist’s 2017 annual conference got underway this February with figures showing the ever-growing rise in demand for alloy wheel refurbishment and yet another year of huge success for the UK’s only national alloy wheel refurbishment and customisation franchise, refurbishing almost 106,000 wheels throughout 2016.