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Mr Bricolage received an award at the 24th “Meilleurs Franchisés et partenaires de France” competition. This competition is organised by the Fédération des Réseaux Européens de Partenariat et de Réseaux de Franchise (Federation of European Partnership networks and Franchise networks). This institute is better known by its acronym, IREF, and unites independent structured trading networks.

The franchisee of the Mr.Bricolage store in Hazebrouck, Dominique Duquesnoy, received the Grand Award for Commercial Attack. The awards were sponsored by Pierre Lellouche, Secretary of State in charge of foreign trade, and Frédéric Lefèvre, Secretary of State in charge of Commerce and Crafts, SME’s, Tourism, Services, Independent Professions and Consumption.

The IREF also celebrated its 30th anniversary on this occasion. Since its creation, over 600 franchisees and partners have received awards from this institute. The competition received 30% more applications than usual for this 24^th edition.

The awards are based on criteria focusing on economic performance, participation in the network, advertising, communication campaigns and involvement in the local community (Chamber of Commerce, associations, etc.).

Dominique Duquenoy (franchisee for the store in Hazebrouck and Thierry Portelette (in charge of development for the Northern region)

The Mr Bricolage group will attend Franchise Expo 2011.

This annual event will be held at Porte de Versailles, Paris, 20 – 23 March. Franchise Expo enables those planning to start their own businesses to discover the opportunities offered by the almost 450 companies present.

The Mr Bricolage group stand handles several hundred contacts each year. Some of these contacts lead to real results and the candidates create their own businesses. Each year, Mr Bricolage and Briconautes propose documentation on how to create new stores or take over rival stores and on sales outlets for sale within the group.

For more details, check out the new businesses page on the Mr Bricolage.com web site.

For more details on the Franchise Expo fair.

The Franchise Expo fair opened its door yesterday in Paris, Porte de Versailles. This fair brings together 400 franchisors, and provides the opening for many franchisees to meet up with their future store names.

Mr.Bricolage, 3rd actor on the DIY market with 700 stores and 12 000 members of personnel, is clearly present at this franchise fair.

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