Franchise India 2015 Reaches out to Indian Youth for 13th Annual International Franchise & Retail Opportunity Show

The Franchise and Retail Industry’s most coveted Annual Business Gathering and Regarded as Asia’s Biggest Business Show: “Franchise India 2015” is scheduled on October 18-19, 2015 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi.

Franchising is mounting at pace faster than any other sector of the economy will contribute approximately 4% to India’s GDP by 2017, For the Fifth following year, Franchise Industry in the FY 2014- 2015 witnessed 35% Y-O-Y growth, with addition of approximately 4,050 new brands to the franchise brandwagon. Franchises are expected to add One Lakh Plus+ jobs this year.

India has recently been declared as the 2nd most attractive destination for franchisors among 30 emerging markets .Franchising business in India was worth US$ 13.4 billion in 2012 & now it is estimated at US $24 billion.

Commenting on the same Mr. Gaurav Marya, Chairman, Franchise India expressed” “In today’s time, If a product or the service business has not been planned around a 25-year-old – ideally both for the customer and as business Partner, Franchising cannot flourish. Franchise India 2015 has factored the Power of the Youth Entrepreneurship with its theme # I Run my Business and will highlight business opportunities in Franchising for people in their 20s or early 30s, considering them as prime franchisee candidates. I salute the Youth Entrepreneurial Spirit of India and we will reach out to a million plus young entrepreneurs and invite them to the mega event to enable them to make an informed decision to Startup”

The Biggest Franchise Show – Franchise India 2015 is back in 13th Year

Promoted with Youth entrepreneurial spirit of # I Run my Business,“Franchise India 2015” is the largest Business marketplace , bringing together Franchise, Modern Retail, Direct sales, Brand Licensing, Distribution, and New age business opportunities.Every year, over 35,000 business Investors, Franchisees, Distributors and Dealers , SME’s, HNI’s, women and college entrepreneurs from India and south-east Asian countries visit the show to find fruitful business partnerships, ranging from small, medium, and large investments. Thousands of businesses get invested in over two days.

There will be 513 Brands at the Expo Trade floor of which 152 new Business Ideas will be showcased largely from Ecommerce, E-Retail, Analytics, Robotics, Telecom, Logistics and Technology. Leading Consumer brands of India like Attica Gold, Essar Oil, Babyoye, DLF Brands, Mothercare, Kids kart, Jaipuria School, Chisel – A Virat Kohli Initiative, Siyarams, Chicago Pizza, Store 99, Dr. Lal Path Labs, Baskins Robbins, Giani, ICICI securities, Crocodile, WH Smith, Smart Scool, Strands salon, Aubade Solar, IIHT, Chai Garam, Bio Beauty and 375 more Brands would come together under one roof to meet with prospective Business partners and Investors. Click here for complete list.

Parallel to expo, there will be a knowledge platform “Start-up Summit 2015” for entrepreneurs to capture what is the right business to start, How to fund your business at Idea stage , How to get business growth on OPM(Other People’s Money) , How to Transform your traditional Product Business to a Modern Brand .Key thought leaders speaking are – Satya Narayanan, Chairman, Career Launcher, Anand Singh, Director, Cartoon Network​, Manav Sethi, Group CMO, Askme, Lina Ashar, Chairperson, Kangaroo Kids, Shishir Jaipuria, Chairman, Jaipuria Education Society, Anupam Bansal, ED, Liberty Group.

Some of the International speakers are Chris Evans, Managing Director, Oxford Ltd, UK, Mike Hanrahan, Founder, Maid 2 Clean, UK, Yannick Colaco, Managing Director, NBA, USA, Michelle Minieri, President, Bradford Licensing Associates, USA, Martin Brochstein, SVP Industry Relations, LIMA Worldwide,USA

Leading Investment Groups speaking at the Summit and Incubation center are Alok Mittal, Angel Investor & Founder, Indifi Technologies; Rajat Jain of Pad Up Ventures; Ajay Ramasubramaniam, of Zone Start-ups; Gaurav Kachru, of 5ideas Startup Superfuel; Vinod Keni of Peachtree Capital Partners; Shailesh V Singh of Seedfund Ventures; Shivani Bhasin Sachdeva of India Alternatives; Saurabh Arora of Lybrate; Ramesh Dharmaji of SIDBI; Arpit Agarwal of Blume Ventures Advisors; Prof. Arya Kumar of Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management, New Delhi.

About Franchise India Group

The Show is brought to you by Franchise India, which started its journey 16 years ago, on the premise that franchising can build partnerships between entrepreneurs and business enterprises. Franchise India is today India’s most trusted Business Growth Solutions’ Organisation, enabling start-ups to build growth, and mature in business. With a network of 300 + events across the length and breadth of the country, our media divisions delivering latest ideas, knowledge and insight, a bouquet of consulting and advisory services linking investors to business opportunities and corporate enterprises to entrepreneur partners through a 700-member Franchise India family, we have grown by delivering growth to Lakhs of business entities.