30/07/2025
"Is franchising also available for swimming pools and pool facilities, Veronika Bellone?"
🏖️ “An obvious question in summer😉. Yes, there is. There is a fundamental standardisation in the planning and implementation of pool facilities in particular. This makes such companies predestined for licensing and franchising.
🏖️ The French provider ‘Waterair’ is the big player in Europe and works with pool construction kits that can be adapted to different circumstances. This means that licence partners have standardised and certified tools to create pools in individual planning meetings with customers.
🏖️ In Switzerland, we have already been able to advise ‘eco-pool’. The company specialises in sustainable pools and swimming ponds and has started franchising.
🏖️ Franchising can be interesting not only for traditional commercial enterprises, but also for local authorities. For example, my initial customers include ‘Berliner Bäder Betriebe’, the largest municipal swimming pool company in Europe. New network ideas such as franchising or licensing are also inspiring for similarly large, managed businesses.
🏖️ Swimming pools and pool facilities also offer complementary companies potential for franchising or licensing concepts. In the leisure sector, the English franchise system ‘Water Babies - learn for life’ (swimming courses for babies) and the Australian franchise system "Jump! Swim Schools" franchise system. However, craft businesses are also welcome and active as franchise or licence systems for construction, care, repair and maintenance."
An additional tip: If you would like to get to know the perspective of new franchisees or licencees in the pool sector, we interviewed Gundi Poch and Raimund Schmauder, licence partners of Waterair, shortly after their launch for our Tinystartup_ch platform. Their success speaks volumes to this day. https://www.tinystartup.ch/interviews/psheimatpool/
If you are also thinking about franchising or licensing your offer in or around the leisure sector, you are welcome to contact Veronika Bellone or Thomas Matla directly. They offer individual and team counselling, project coaching as well as lectures and workshops (local on site and on-line).
Photo: Prof. Veronika Bellone by Bellone Franchise Consulting GmbH www.bellone-franchise.com