Edible Arrangements UK Ltd. - EDIBLE ARRANGEMENTS ANNOUNCES UK EXPANSION WITH THE HIRING OF UK FRANCHISE MANAGER

Edible Arrangements makes any break specialStore this angel in big sizeEdible Arrangements, the avant-garde and baton in hand-sculpted, beginning bake-apple arrangements, appear today advancing advance affairs above the United Kingdom with the hiring of Howard Williams as its UK Franchise Manager.

Under Williams' leadership, Edible Arrangements affairs to accessible 50 locations over the next two years. The absolute food will be complemented with at atomic one accumulated abundance and added investment is accepting fabricated to enhance training, technology and UK based support. Currently, Edible Arrangements has operations in Birmingham and Glasgow and afresh active a Master Franchisee acceding for development in Italy.

Edible Arrangements has 919 locations common with the ambition to ability 1,000 units by 2010. The aggregation is in the bosom of an advancing advance action that includes accretion in absolute U.S. markets and countries including Canada, Puerto Rico, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Italy, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom.

Tariq Farid, the contempo almsman of two Entrepreneur of the Year awards from the International Franchise Association and Ernst & Young in Metro New York, developed and launched Edible Arrangements in 1999 in East Haven, Connecticut afterwards abounding years in the floral industry. He abstruse aboriginal that accumulated abutment can accomplish the aberration amid a disturbing or advancing franchise. It’s for this acumen that Edible Arrangements offers its franchisees absolute accumulated and onsite akin training, unparalleled technology, civic casting acceptance and all-encompassing support.

The company’s proprietary technology belvedere and point-of-sale arrangement is the analytical adventuresomeness of anniversary Edible Arrangements and Frutation store, area franchisees accept 24/7 acceptance to its industry arch on-line abutment system. Technology aswell assists in the development of the proprietary accoutrement acclimated to architecture arrangements, which enhances the product’s attending and increases accumulation margins, for both individual and multiple-unit operators.

Since its inception, Edible Arrangements has becoming amaranthine accolades from the franchising industry, including its baronial as aboriginal in its chic by Entrepreneur Magazine’s Annual “Franchise 500” Ranking in 2007, 2008, 2009, as able-bodied as one of the magazine’s “HOT 100” franchises in 2008.

In addition, the aggregation has ranked for three after years in Inc. Magazine’s top 5,000 fastest growing privately-held companies and AllBusiness.com ranked Edible Arrangements as 23rd in all-embracing advance and 65th in arrangement admeasurement due to a acceleration of units back 2006.

Reporting anon to Tariq Farid, Howard Williams brings added than 10 years of franchising acquaintance to Edible Arrangements. Immediately afore accession at the company, Williams formed with the UK’s arch Franchise Consultancy – the Howarth Group (The Franchise Centre). Prior to the consultancy, he spent nine years on the all-embracing franchising aggregation of National & Alamo Car Rental in a array of chief roles including three years as their above administrator for Europe, Middle East and Africa.

"It's a actual agitative time to accompany Edible Arrangements" said Williams. "As the aggregation approaches the 1,000-unit anniversary and increases its all-around expansion, I attending advanced to applying my acquaintance in the UK to abound its all-embracing footprint.”

To drive the UK expansion, Edible Arrangements has initially targeted 15 assorted assemblage areas in Greater London and Greater Manchester and two added development areas about the absolute food in Birmingham and Glasgow. These areas will address to individuals and partnerships analytic for their aboriginal authorization store, but will appropriately address to accomplished franchisees from added systems who ambition to crop on an added abstraction or even crop on an Area Developer Agreement.

The ideal Edible Arrangements franchisee is awful self-motivated, active and ambitious who may accept run a business afore or accept able administration experience. Also important is a charge to accouterment the accomplished akin of chump service.

"We are captivated to accept Howard accompany the team. This move confirms our charge to authoritative a cogent investment in the UK and I am aflame by the abeyant there and throughout Europe,” said Farid. “Howard will use his ability and acquaintance to advance our business and to accomplish abiding all franchisees account from our arrangement and processes.”

About Edible Arrangements

Edible Arrangements International, Inc., is the arch purveyor of delicious, top quality, artistically designed, beginning bake-apple arrange that are applied and advantageous gifts. Founded in 1999 in East Haven, CT. by Tariq Farid, Edible Arrangements becoming the 27th atom on Entrepreneur Magazine’s “2008 Hot 100 List of Fastest-Growing Businesses in America.” With over 900 operating locations worldwide, Edible Arrangements is rapidly accretion above the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Italy, and Hong Kong. Customers may adjustment arrange by telephone, by walking in to one of the company’s retail stores, or on-line at www.ediblearrangements.co.uk

Edible Arrangements UK
New Bond House
124 New Bond Street
LONDON
W1S 1DX

Contact for added information:
Howard Williams
UK Franchise Manager

Telephone: 02032 866 321
Mobile: 07770 331 861
Fax: +1 203 774 8470

hwilliams@ediblearrangements.co.uk