Franchises for Africa: An online directory of international franchises designed with Africa in Mind.

April 8, 2009 - PRLog -- Darrell Hill Limited continues to use the Internet to increase relationships between global businesses and African entrepreneurs.

Today, the online publishing start up adds another “afrocentric” online driven service to its portfolio; www.franchisesforafrica.com is an online directory of global and international franchises that can thrive in Africa; i.e franchises that have Africa in mind. This means that all the franchises listed on this website can be implemented and run in Africa.

Africa entrepreneurs interested in buying a franchise or business opportunity to implement and run in Africa need not look any further because this service has pulled together a directory of franchises capable of thriving in Africa’s unique and challenging markets. The franchises listed on franchisesforafrica.com are from USA, UK and the rest of Europe as well as from South Africa.

Franchisesforafrica.com allows visitors to quickly find and research information about the listed franchises and business opportunities by area and niche industry categories such as advertising, consulting, computer services, automotive, B2B services, and more. Prospective buyers can then request additional no obligation information directly from the franchise and business opportunities companies of their choice.

Hillary Obomighie, Director of Business Development in Darrell-Hill says that the website is easy to use; but technical enough to ensure that relevant information is easily found and that numerous businesses or franchisors can be contacted through just one click of a button. He  elaborated on three key reasons why Africa entrepreneurs that intend to buy a franchise should visit the site;
1. Afrocentric Franchises: Franchises that cannot thrive in Africa have been screened out so visitors do not waste time making fruitless enquiries
2. Supported Franchises: All franchises have training and support structures that can extend to Africa.
3. Funding Assistance: Should our visitors need funding, their plan or proposal will be posted on www.afrifunding.com; a world class entrepreneur - investor matching system that will support their objective.

Hillary also mentioned four reasons why franchise businesses should start considering offering their franchise licenses to Africa:
1. Africa is experiencing a revolution in franchising: Heavily populated emerging markets are starting to create a substantial consumer class fuelled by manufacturing and service franchises.
2. Africa takes IP rights seriously: The backbone of a franchise operation usually involves the licensing of a bundle of intellectual property rights.
3. Return on Investment: Africa is currently experiencing its best economic performance in years and is therefore an attractive market to invest in with great business opportunities.
4. Africa is growing and growing fast and the future is Africa: As franchising becomes saturated in developed countries, the emerging markets like Africa become fertile grounds for franchising to take root.

For Franchisors and other advertisers, Franchiseforafrica.com is also dedicated to helping you sell your franchise to Africa by offering a world class listing service that caters for franchise models with Africa in mind. As such, this site will only advertise franchises that can be set up and run in Africa and are be able to provide training and support structures that can extend to Africa.

The site offers the advantages of not only being a niche directory that provides targeted exposure and cost effective advertising packages, but also helps keep their offering from getting lost in the crowd of the thousands of different franchises and businesses available on some large franchise portals.

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Our primary aim is to contribute to the economic development of Africa by connecting customers, entrepreneurs, business intermediaries and marketplaces within the B2B and B2C arenas that have special interests in Africa