By George Pomfret, Business Broker, Franchise Resales
For many professionals job promotion follows a familiar pattern. You work hard, deliver results, and then wait. Sometimes the next role appears, but often it may not.
Even strong performers operate within constraints, such as salary bands, headcount limits, internal politics and economic cycles. Progression depends not only on performance but on timing, which is rarely in your control.
That’s why we are seeing a growing number of ambitious executives choose a different route. Instead of waiting for a promotion they’re buying into something that already generates income, not by launching a brand-new franchise territory from scratch, but by acquiring an existing resale.
Most buyers leaving employment have one clear objective and that’s to replace their salary. A franchise resale gives them a realistic platform to do that because the business is already trading.
There is revenue to analyse, customers to retain, margins to understand and performance history to assess. The franchisor framework is in place and demand has already been proven.
• To read the full article, view Franchise World Spring 2026 issue, page 39.