For over 25 years, Franchise Expo Paris has been year after year stimulating the development of networks in France and internationally, giving thousands of entrepreneurs the opportunity to make their dream of creating a company come true. Franchise Expo Paris is the platform for privileged encounters, putting company founders and shopkeepers in touch with one another to go into business via networks with over 400 French and international brands.

As an original touch, the trade show will be staging hundreds of franchising concepts from about twenty different countries. This will represent 75 businesses, going from fine foods to ready-to-wear, from car repair to real-estate, from toys to beauty parlours, from stationery to swimming pools. It will be receiving 30,000 qualified visitors, all project owners.

In order to help them all succeed in their project, Franchise Expo Paris will be gathering all the professionals in a position to support, advise and inform them, and help them find the required financing.

Thanks to this unique offer, featuring highly renowned brand names, or concepts being developed over new markets, entrepreneurs will be able to compare, to immerse themselves into a brand, a know-how or an entrepreneurial spirit, thus being in a position to join the network best suited to their ambitions. Franchise Expo Paris will provide key information and counselling about contracts, obligations, the European franchising code of ethics, the Doubin Law and more. On that occasion, the French Franchise Federation and the Experts College will be offering free consulting sessions. There will also be conferences and workshops dispensing everything one needs to know about franchising and company creation.

What’s new in 2009

Friday, international franchise day!

Franchise Expo Paris is going international, witness 14% foreign visitors in 2008. To meet the needs of foreign investors, franchisors and master franchisees, the Friday will be devoted to them. The Franchise Expo Paris 2009 opening ceremony, as well as a special programme of conferences held on that day, will be translated simultaneously into English.

Master Franchise School!

Over the 4 days of the trade show, the Master Franchise School will be dispensing 2 hours of free training in English every afternoon. The Master Franchise School is devoted to: foreign franchisors seeking a master franchisee in France and foreign investors looking to develop French or international brands within their country of origin via a master franchise.

The World Franchise Council Meeting in Paris!

The annual World Franchise Council summit will gather all WFC-member franchise federations in the world on March 12^th and 13^th. From the 14^th to 16^th, foreign federations will attend the trade show to inform entrepreneurs and investors about franchise development within their respective countries. Brazil will be the guest of honour in 2009. The Brazilian Franchise Association (ABF) will join Franchise Expo Paris in presenting a pavilion of brand names seeking to expand into France and the world. In addition, meetings with Brazilian investors will be organised.The Business Award Franchise will reward, as it does every year, a successful international franchisor. This year, it will concern a Brazilian concept since the event is welcoming Brazil as guest of honour. This initiative, started by Franchise Expo Paris, the French Franchise Federation and Reed Expositions France, aims at encouraging the development of brand names beyond their own borders.

New international pavilions. In addition to the regularly attending Spanish, Australian and Italian Pavilions as well as the International Village, in 2009 Franchise Expo Paris will welcome a Danish Pavilion.