About Us

Recognition Express has been successfully operating franchises in corporate recognition and promotional products since 1979 and is the most successful franchise network for the sector in the UK, with over 40 franchisees in the UK and Europe.

Recognition Express supplies branded business gifts and personalised promotional products, name badges, staff awards, posters and signs plus a full range of branded clothing to organisations in the UK. The opportunity is huge with an established and growing market worth in excess of £3 billion per annum.

Hardworking, ambitious and driven franchisees with good ‘people skills’ are well suited to the ethos of the company.

Walk around your local area and see the opportunities everywhere for badges, branded clothing, promotional products, large format colour posters, corporate gifts and awards. The market is massive, and the good news is that the majority of the business is repeat business.

Training and Support – How We Support You

It’s you who makes the key decisions in your franchise business, but we are always on hand with help and advice, training, marketing, business and financial planning and much more.

As part of the largest franchise network for corporate merchandise and recognition products you benefit from our considerable purchasing power. We get the best products from the best suppliers, keeping you ahead of the competition.

Recognition Express franchisees benefit from:

  • Extensive marketing support
  • Centralised marketing programmes
  • Integrated business planning
  • On-going training and support
  • In-house procurement services
  • Range of equipment

Franchise Training

Training is comprehensive and extensive, covering all key business areas – marketing, sales, finance, business planning, production, products, pricing etc.

Equipment

Additionally many products are held in stock at our own warehouse with distribution service to ensure immediate dispatch and to allow you to respond to customers – ‘on-demand’.

Marketing

Recognition Express has extensive marketing experience in the business to business field, and retains the services of a marketing agency to coordinate activities with our head of marketing.

Centrally designed, managed and implemented direct marketing programmes form the backbone of the Recognition Express marketing system. These are augmented by high quality literature, marketing tools and ongoing training designed to drive business growth, client contact and brand awareness.

Constantly on the lookout for exciting products and innovations, we invest both the time and money in on-going new product development programmes and in constant R&D, across the whole product range.

Support Across The Business

Support includes:

  • Business planning
  • Centralised marketing programmes
  • Ongoing training
  • Financial planning
  • Comprehensive marketing launch programme
  • Annual symposium
  • Monthly magazine
  • Dedicated extranet
  • Help and advice lines
  • Franchisee websites

Financial Information

Initial franchise package includes:

  • Marketing Launch Programme
  • 3 Weeks Training
  • Centralised Marketing programmes (REACT)
  • Appointment Generating System
  • Contact Management System
  • Own website
  • Extensive marketing collateral
  • 250 Recognition Express Product Catalogues
  • Sage Accounting Software
  • Ongoing training; business reviews and network meetings
  • Immediate installation at your home or office
  • Hugh O’Neill, Bromley & Dartford

    Hugh O’Neill, Bromley & Dartford

    When I did my research, I was impressed with the quality of products I could supply, the margin that could be achieved, the low overhead costs and the support that would be offered. Commenced Trading: May 2010 Previous Job: Regional Business Manager for a Cont...

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  • Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone And Jump Into Franchising

    Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone And Jump Into Franchising

    Stuart Fisher spent nearly 20 years working as an Accountant before realising his ambition to run his own business. He set up Recognition Express Harrow in 2008, providing a marketing ideas and promotional products to businesses in Wembley, Pinner, Edgware and...

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  • Stephen and Ciorsdan Price, Recognition Express West Scotland

    Stephen and Ciorsdan Price, Recognition Express West Scotland

    Stephen and Ciorsdan met on a blind date on a night out in Ayr and married in 1989. They have a 21 year old son David James Price who is studying Chemistry at St Andrews University. ‘The best thing we have ever done!’ Stephen and Ciorsdan met on a blind da...

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  • Recognition Express Case Study: Russell Golding

    Recognition Express Case Study: Russell Golding

    Russell worked for Reuters in the City for 13 years selling financial information, software and hardware to financial institutions, when in August 2003 he was unexpectedly made redundant. Here Russell gives some insight into his experience of redundancy. Made ...

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  • New Franchisee Joins Recognition Express

    New Franchisee Joins Recognition Express

      Nick Manning joins Recognition Express after finding the franchise online.   Recognition Express is proud to congratulate recent franchisee Nick Manning, who operates in the Guildford area. He found Recognition Express and is now on his way to crea...

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  • Jan Chidley, Hull & East Riding

    Jan Chidley, Hull & East Riding

    Jan did a multitude of jobs, including banking, working as a nanny and a credit controller, before meeting her husband Chris and starting a family. Commenced Trading: 2008 Previous Job: Full time mum Jan Chidley, 47, was born in New Zealand and first came to E...

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  • Franchise Boss Raises £7k in Charity Biking Challenge

    Franchise Boss Raises £7k in Charity Biking Challenge

    6th November 2017

    Nigel Toplis, managing director of The Bardon Group, cycled 540k from Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) to Angkor Wat (Cambodia), raising £7,000 for the charity WellChild. The trek was a true endurance challenge. Nigel cycled up to 100k per day in temperatures of 90 ...

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  • New recognition Express Franchisee for Peterborough

    New recognition Express Franchisee for Peterborough

    12th October 2017

    Local businessman Stephen Loasby is now the proud owner of two businesses-Kall Kwik and Recognition Express in Cowgate, Peterborough. Stephen became the owner of Kall Kwik Peterborough in 1998. Since then the graphic design and print business has gone from str...

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  • Local Businessmen Swing into Action for WellChild

    Local Businessmen Swing into Action for WellChild

    26th July 2017

    Recognition Express raised more than £3,000 for the charity WellChild last week at its annual golf tournament. The leading branding and promotional products franchise held its Recognition Express Masters at the Hinckley Golf Club, with seven teams of four gol...

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  • Midlands franchising chief recognised for twenty years’ service to the industry

    Midlands franchising chief recognised for twenty years’ service to the industry

    4th July 2017

    Nigel Toplis, managing director of Recognition Express and The Bardon Group, has been named as one of the top 20 faces of the UK franchising industry. Leading franchise industry publication, What Franchise magazine, has included Nigel in its 2017 list of influ...

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  • Fitness Pals Take on Mountain Challenge for Charity

    Fitness Pals Take on Mountain Challenge for Charity

    16th June 2017

    Chris Masters, head of operations at leading promotional products and branded clothing franchise Recognition Express, led a team of 11 gym buddies to complete the formidable National Three Peaks challenge recently, raising funds for local charities. The challe...

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  • Over 230 Miles of Badges from Recognition Express Manchester

    Over 230 Miles of Badges from Recognition Express Manchester

    10th April 2017

    Recognition Express Manchester has sold over five million badges during its 30 years in business. Laid end to end they would stretch from the city centre to Plymouth! Their biggest ever single order for 150,000 units came from Job Centre Plus. The business cel...

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  • Recognition Express Nets a Top Business Award

    Recognition Express Nets a Top Business Award

    1st December 2016

    The owner of Recognition Express West London, Ed Kennelly, is headed for Wembley! But he’s not going to the famous stadium for sport. His promotional goods and branded clothing company has been named a finalist in this year’s prestigious West London Busine...

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  • Recognition Express Network Expands in the Midlands

    Recognition Express Network Expands in the Midlands

    2nd September 2016

    A new Recognition Express territory has been set up in Birmingham by former sales director Paul Ferreira. Paul is running Recognition Express Birmingham South from his office in Solihull, where he and his wife Tracy relocated to 10 years ago from South Africa....

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  • Recognition Express Organises Charity Golf Tournament

    Recognition Express Organises Charity Golf Tournament

    8th August 2016

    Nigel Toplis, managing director of the UK’s leading promotional product and branded clothing company Recognition Express has helped to raise thousands of pounds for WellChild by organising a charity golf tournament. The Recognition Express Masters 2016 was h...

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  • Jan Helps CASE Get Recognised

    Jan Helps CASE Get Recognised

    3rd May 2016

    Local charity CASE Training is sporting smart new lanyards thanks to promotional goods and branded clothing specialist Recognition Express Hull. Recognition Express owner Jan Chidley met Steve Rusling, marketing manager for CASE, at their recent business event...

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  • Recognition Express Finalist in Top Industry Marketing Award Express

    Recognition Express Finalist in Top Industry Marketing Award Express

    4th March 2016

    Leading branded clothing and promotional products franchise, Recognition Express, has been named a finalist in the Best PR Campaign category 2016 Franchise Marketing Awards. Recognition Express entered its annual ‘design a road safety banner’ competition f...

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  • Recognition Express Mid Surrey Helps New Community Garage Break The Ice

    Recognition Express Mid Surrey Helps New Community Garage Break The Ice

    16th February 2016

    Promotional products and branded clothing specialist, Recognition Express Mid Surrey, has supplied a consignment of eye-catching ice scrapers to a community garage in Surbiton. The garage in Red Lion Road has been open for six months. Whilst it offers top qual...

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  • Grangemouth Trio Join Forces to Buy Thriving Local Company

    Grangemouth Trio Join Forces to Buy Thriving Local Company

    20th November 2015

    Two long-serving employees at a Grangemouth firm in Powdrake Road are celebrating becoming the bosses! Along with David Marshall, the son of the previous owner, Moira Ashby and Mark Everingham have bought Recognition Express South East Scotland, following the ...

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  • Bardon Group Boss Completes 10-day Charity Jungle Trek

    Bardon Group Boss Completes 10-day Charity Jungle Trek

    5th October 2015

    Battling illness and 90-degree heat in the Sumatra jungle has been the toughest but most rewarding challenge yet for Bardon Group managing director Nigel Toplis. Every two years Nigel and his colleague Russell Golding owner of Recognition Express Kettering und...

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  • Competition helps schoolchildren ‘put road safety first’

    Competition helps schoolchildren ‘put road safety first’

    19th August 2015

    Franchisor Recognition Express is collaborating with national road safety charity Brake for the seventh consecutive year to run a competition aligned with Road Safety Week (23 – 29 November). The UK’s leading supplier of promotional products and corpor...

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  • Bardon Group Boss to Swap Desk for Jungle

    Bardon Group Boss to Swap Desk for Jungle

    18th August 2015

    Undeterred from his previous fund raising challenges of cycling over 360 kilometres around Cuba, climbing Mount Kilimanjaro and walking across the Sahara Desert, Bardon Group manager director Nigel Toplis is pushing himself once more with a new adventure. Next...

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  • Award-Winning Sally Mentors Female Engineer

    Award-Winning Sally Mentors Female Engineer

    9th July 2015

    Enterprising Women in Franchising (EWIF) franchisee of the Year Sally Findlay has spent the past six months mentoring 22 year old space engineering student Karine Murray. Alongside running her busy promotional products and branded clothing business Recognition...

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  • Local Businessmen Swing into Action at Charity Golf Match

    Local Businessmen Swing into Action at Charity Golf Match

    23rd June 2015

    After bicycling across Cuba, climbing Kilimanjaro and trekking through the Sahara in aid of WellChild, it was a walk in the park for Recognition Express managing director Nigel Toplis to hold – and win – a golf tournament to raise even more money for the c...

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  • EWIF win for the Bardon Group

    EWIF win for the Bardon Group

    19th May 2015

    Bardon Group top franchisee Sally Findlay from Recognition Express Mid Surrey has been named as the 2015 Encouraging Women into Franchising (EWIF) Woman Franchisee of the Year. Another Bardon Group franchisee, Jude Parker from ComputerXplorers North Yorkshire ...

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  • Top Motorsport Aviation Airline Flies High with Recognition Express

    Top Motorsport Aviation Airline Flies High with Recognition Express

    30th January 2015

    When Southend Airport based specialist airline Jota Aviation wanted stylish branded accessories to match their new cabin crew uniforms, they turned to local company Recognition Express. Promotional goods and clothing expert Recognition Express in Rochford has ...

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  • Recognition Express ends 2014 on a high

    Recognition Express ends 2014 on a high

    5th January 2015

    Recognition Express owners came together for an energy charged annual conference recently where the branded goods specialists celebrated outstanding trading achievements. Managing director Nigel Toplis presented Matt Bevis and Claire Lindley from Recognition E...

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  • Recognition Express Supplies Eastenders Star with Charity Vests

    Recognition Express Supplies Eastenders Star with Charity Vests

    14th May 2014

    Local business man Hugh O’Neill, owner of Recognition Express Bromley and Dartford, has sponsored former Eastenders star Brooke Kinsella and her celebrity friends to help with their fundraising activities for the Ben Kinsella Trust. The charity, which aims t...

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  • It’s Ten Years in Business for Sally and Adam

    It’s Ten Years in Business for Sally and Adam

    2nd April 2014

    Recognition Express Mid Surrey celebrates its tenth anniversary this week. Established in 2004 by Sally and Adam Findlay, the East Molesey based company has gone from strength to strength building up a thriving promotional products and branded clothing busines...

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  • Recognition Express Essex Supports Charity Bike Ride

    Recognition Express Essex Supports Charity Bike Ride

    6th March 2014

    Graham Marshall, owner of Recognition Express Essex, has sponsored a team of ten from Rochford, to help with their fundraising activities for the Marfan Trust. In May the owner of Argon Computing and nine of his friends and colleagues will cycle to Paris from ...

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  • Rochford team get on their bikes for charity

    Rochford team get on their bikes for charity

    12th February 2014

    The owner of Rochford-based Argon Computing and nine of his friends and colleagues are training hard to get ready for a charity bike ride in May to Paris in aid of the Marfan Trust. Jason Smith, who has owned the computer repairs shop for eleven years, first h...

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  • MP Makes 10 Year Anniversary Return Visit to Recognition Express

    MP Makes 10 Year Anniversary Return Visit to Recognition Express

    5th February 2014

    A new Recognition Express territory has been set up in Suffolk, by Stewart Green (53), who is also the owner of Kall Kwik Bury St Edmunds. In 2003 MP David Ruffley officially opened Stewart’s Kall Kwik centre. Ten years later Mr Ruffley returned to Burridge ...

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  • Franchise giant recognises top performing businesses

    Franchise giant recognises top performing businesses

    30th September 2013

    The Bardon Group – parent company of Recognition Express, ComputerXplorers, The ZipYard and Kall Kwik – recently celebrated its brightest players at an awards evening attended by 150 guests.   From left to right: Back row: Laurence Bagley, Richard McConne...

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  • Graham’s Been ‘Hired’

    Graham’s Been ‘Hired’

    5th September 2013

    It’s not just his ‘apprentices’ that Lord Alan Sugar challenges. In a scenario not unlike the famous TV series, Graham Marshall, owner of promotional goods and branded clothing company Recognition Express Essex, was approached by Lord Sugar’s office lo...

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  • Competition helps schoolchildren ‘tune in to road safety’

    Competition helps schoolchildren ‘tune in to road safety’

    19th August 2013

    Franchisor Recognition Express is collaborating with national road safety charity Brake for the fifth consecutive year to run a competition aligned with Road Safety Week (18-24 November). The UK’s leading supplier of promotional products and corporate mercha...

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  • Recognition Express Organises Charity Football Match

    Recognition Express Organises Charity Football Match

    19th August 2013

    Nigel Toplis, managing director of the UK’s leading promotional product and branded clothing company Recognition Express has helped to raise thousands of pounds between two charities by organising a football match last Sunday. The match was an intense battle...

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  • Recognition Express Supplies Eastenders Star with Charity Hoodies

    Recognition Express Supplies Eastenders Star with Charity Hoodies

    12th July 2013

    Recognition Express Dartford and Bromley owner Hugh O’Neill donated the personalised hoodies and t-shirts that former Eastenders star Brooke Kinsella and her sisters wore when they walked to the highest point of Machu Picchu, to raise money for the Ben Kinse...

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  • Sally Presents EWIF Outstanding Achievement Award

    Sally Presents EWIF Outstanding Achievement Award

    30th May 2013

    Surrey Businesswoman and one of the country’s most successful female franchisees, Sally Findlay, recently presented Pam Bader OBE FRSA, chief executive of Molly Maid, with the Recognition Express sponsored award for Outstanding Contribution at the EWIF (Enco...

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  • Recognition Express Warwick Kits out First Responders

    Recognition Express Warwick Kits out First Responders

    1st May 2013

    Recognition Express Warwick owner Paul McCarthy recently presented the Warwick District Community First Responders with a set of logoed high visibility waistcoats to help their fundraising activities. Often first on the scene at medical emergencies are the War...

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  • Recognition Express helps keep pet rescuers shining

    Recognition Express helps keep pet rescuers shining

    26th April 2013

    Promotional product and printed clothing company, Recognition Express Essex has donated customised safety equipment to help pet rescuers, Bella’s Angels, keep safe in the dark. Bella’s Angels is an Essex and Suffolk based volunteer group. The group helps t...

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  • Move Opens Promotional Window of Opportunity

    Move Opens Promotional Window of Opportunity

    18th February 2013

    Caversham Solicitors has called on the expertise of branded products specialist and fellow local business, Recognition Express Newbury, to help raise the company profile following an office move and business expansion. Caversham Solicitors is a small but expan...

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  • New Chapter Opens for Paralympic Torch Bearer

    New Chapter Opens for Paralympic Torch Bearer

    22nd October 2012

    When Steve Randerson, owner of Recognition Express Kent was diagnosed with cancer he never imagined that seven years and 23 operations later he would have carried the Paralympic Torch and have built a business so successful that it had to move to larger premis...

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  • Recognising 30 Years In Business

    Recognising 30 Years In Business

    15th October 2012

    Dennis D’Arcy (60), owner of Aberdeen-based promotional products and signage company Recognition Express North Scotland, has been presented with an award celebrating his three decades in business. Dennis D’Arcy being presented with his 30 Years In Business...

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  • What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger

    What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger

    19th September 2012

    Steve Randerson, owner of Recognition Express Kent which specialises in branded promotional goods and clothing, was one of just five people from his hometown chosen to be amongst the 116 teams that took part in the Paralympic Torch Relay last month. The Medway...

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  • Personalised Rewards Go Down a Storm

    Personalised Rewards Go Down a Storm

    18th September 2012

    A local recruitment consultant has called on the expertise of branded products specialist and fellow local business, Recognition Express Newbury, to create a unique way of praising and rewarding its staff. The Basingstoke-based independent recruitment consulta...

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  • Grimsby firm hits new heights with landmark contract

    Grimsby firm hits new heights with landmark contract

    21st August 2012

    Recognition Express Eastern, a corporate recognition specialist based in Grimsby, recently achieved its best ever month with sales up 44 per cent year on year. The firm’s growth trajectory has accelerated in the past six months following a major contract win...

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  • Celebrity Football Match Raises £6,000 for Charity

    Celebrity Football Match Raises £6,000 for Charity

    10th August 2012

    An electrifying charity celebrity football match, held at the Dovecote Stadium last Sunday, organised by a local businessman has raised thousands of pounds for two charity appeals. Organised by Nigel Toplis, managing director of the UK’s leading promotional ...

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  • Best Student Award in Franchising Goes To…

    Best Student Award in Franchising Goes To…

    3rd August 2012

    A group of students at Lancaster University’s Management School have been selected for the Best Franchise Report, as part of the Franchising module of the course. As a reward for their hard work the five students have each been presented with a cheque for £...

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  • Recognition Express Launches Schools Road Safety Competition

    Recognition Express Launches Schools Road Safety Competition

    1st August 2012

    Recognition Express, the UK’s leading franchise supplying promotional gifts & printed products, has announced that it will be running its popular Road Safety Design competition for the fourth year in a row. Recognition Express first joined forces with n...

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  • Ensure Your Olynpic Branding is a Winner

    Ensure Your Olynpic Branding is a Winner

    19th July 2012

    As Olympic fever sweeps the nation Recognition Express is warning local businesses who may be considering producing some last minute promotional items to beware the potential minefield of the Olympic branding. Nigel Toplis, managing director of Recognition Exp...

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  • Star Studded Vs Businessmen In Charity Football Match

    Star Studded Vs Businessmen In Charity Football Match

    2nd July 2012

    On Sunday, 5 August stars from the soap world will be tackling a team of local businessmen in a special football match and fun-day, aiming to raise money for two leading charities. Organised by Nigel Toplis, managing director of Hinkley-based Recognition Expre...

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  • Recognition Express Give Schools A Jubilee Party To Remember

    Recognition Express Give Schools A Jubilee Party To Remember

    11th June 2012

    Leading promotional product and printed merchandise franchise, Recognition Express, received nearly 900 entries from children across the country, in response to their Diamond Jubilee competition. Twelve winning schools received Jubilee Party Packs with flags, ...

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  • Win A Recognition Express Diamond Jubilee Party

    Win A Recognition Express Diamond Jubilee Party

    24th April 2012

    Leading promotional product and printed merchandise franchise, Recognition Express, is giving primary schools in the UK the chance to win an official Diamond Jubilee Party Pack with balloons, flags and bunting to decorate their school and celebrate in style. P...

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  • Surrey Business Woman Presents Award for New Woman Franchisee of the Year

    Surrey Business Woman Presents Award for New Woman Franchisee of the Year

    3rd April 2012

    Surrey businesswoman and owner of Recognition Express Mid Surrey, Sally Findlay, presented the award for New Woman Franchisee of Year 2012 at the Encouraging Women Into Franchising (EWIF) Annual Awards Ceremony held in London on last week which was attended by...

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  • Proud Dad Backs Daughter’s Team

    Proud Dad Backs Daughter’s Team

    28th February 2012

    BUSINESSMAN and proud dad Keith Burr has put his money where his mouth is and has sponsored his daughter’s soccer team. Keith Burr, who runs branding and corporate clothing specialist Recognition Express in Newbury and Reading, spends most of his weekends st...

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  • Print Man Goes Into Business For Himself

    Print Man Goes Into Business For Himself

    22nd February 2012

    A PRINTING expert is putting his years of experience in the industry to good use with the launch of a brand new business, Recognition Express Warrington, specialising in branded goods and promotional products.   Alan Stones, 50, decided to launch his new ...

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  • "The business is always looking forward and has always been focused on improving its systems. The training is very sophisticated and with all the added support, the franchise package is second to none." Read More...

    Paul Mitchell

    Paul Mitchell

  • "“Having been away from the workplace for some 18 years I was apprehensive about starting my own business. The support I have received from Recognition Express has been exceptional so much so that at the end of my first year I achieved all my financial target..." Read More...

    Jan Chidley

    Jan Chidley

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Available across the UK
Business Type:
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Minimum Investment:
£15,000
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Yes
Home-based:
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