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Manchester housekeeping business grows to £3.5 million turnover

Manchester entrepreneur Rachel Ray has tripled the turnover of her business in just two years, reaching a record £3.5 million turnover milestone this month with Bright & Beautiful a professional housekeeping service that she set up in 2007 from her home in Sale, Greater Manchester.

Rachel now has over 50 franchises operating the ethical homecare business across the UK, employing over 300 people nationally and 120 in the North West.

All of the franchises, which deliver professional cleaning, tidying, laundry and ironing services, are owned and run by women who wanted a career that would allow them to have a better work/ life balance

Rachel, also plans to expand the business significantly in 2015, recruiting 20 new franchisees, creating over 150 new jobs and launching additional specialist housekeeping services.

Rachel, said: “As well as building a £3.5 million turnover business and creating 300 jobs, we are also working hard to raise the bar and standards for a £4.7 billion industry which is largely unregulated in this country, with many agencies and employers offering workers no holiday or maternity pay and little quality control.

“The evolving labour market has really shaped the speed at which we have been able to grow both our client and franchisee base.

“People are working longer hours so are employing more domestic help and an increasing number of women aren’t prepared to sacrifice their family for work, which leads them to look at becoming self employed.

“Our business model works so well because the franchisees earn a good salary running the business, delivering an impeccable service for the clients and managing their own team of professional housekeepers, yet they can still be in control of their own diary and create a great work-life balance.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Sophia Taha .