VFFranchise Consulting

20/09/2026

🇬🇧 Invest in Opportunities. Expand Your Business. Strengthen Your Brand.
In today's competitive business landscape, franchising has become more than just a business model—it is a proven strategy for sustainable growth, brand expansion, and market development.
Successful franchising is built not only on a strong concept, but also on meaningful connections, strategic partnerships, and valuable business opportunities.
That is exactly what VietFranchise delivers.
💼 As an exhibitor at VietFranchise, you will have the opportunity to:
▪️ Showcase your franchise concept and brand to investors, business partners, and qualified prospects.
▪️ Expand your professional network with local and international businesses.
▪️ Explore new partnerships and business expansion opportunities.
▪️ Gain insights into the latest trends and developments in the franchising industry.
▪️ Strengthen your brand presence on a professional business networking platform.
Participating in VietFranchise is more than exhibiting at an event—it is an investment in long-term business growth and future opportunities.
📩 Contact the Organizing Committee today to explore exhibitor opportunities and become part of VietFranchise.
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18/09/2026

🍕 What actually disqualifies a strong restaurant group from a heritage casual-dining brand? Increasingly, it is not the dining room.
PizzaExpress runs dine-in, its own delivery platform, a supermarket retail business and a 3.5 million-member loyalty club as one connected system. For a master partner in Asia Pacific or MENA, that reshapes the qualification conversation.
🔸 Nearly 360 pizzerias across the UK and Ireland, 60 years after the first site opened in London's Soho
🌍 Over 100 international sites, with owned operations in Hong Kong and the UAE and franchise operations across Asia, the Middle East and Europe
📈 Targeting 1,000 restaurants globally by 2030
💰 VF publishes an entry investment level of US$1,500,000
💡 The channels do not all launch at once. Dine-in comes first, delivery shortly after, the loyalty layer once an estate exists, and supermarket retail only where a partner has chilled distribution. A partner expecting the retail business in year one has misread the model.

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17/09/2026

💰 A US$1 billion cheque from Abu Dhabi just landed on the cap table of a 36,310-store Asian coffee platform.

Mubadala is taking a significant minority position in Luckin Coffee alongside Centurium Capital. For anyone holding or hunting franchise rights across Asia Pacific and MENA, the structure matters more than the headline number.

🔸 Announced 10 September, valued at around US$1 billion, invested alongside controlling shareholder Centurium Capital
📈 36,310 stores globally as of 30 June, with 2,714 net new stores added in Q2 alone
🌍 Two playbooks running side by side overseas: 63 self-operated stores in Singapore, 24 partnership stores in Malaysia
💰 Mubadala manages a US$385 billion portfolio across six continents

💡 Gulf sovereign capital is now underwriting Asian consumer platforms, not just Western ones. A brand that can run direct in one ASEAN market and a partner model in the next has already built the documentation, supply chain and training a master franchisee would need. That is precisely the window when territory terms are still negotiable.

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15/09/2026

🔬 Can you hire a Nurse Practitioner in your market? That question decides this deal, not your capital.

DAMO Hair Loss Solution is a New York clinical hair and scalp restoration brand releasing its first-ever master licence across Asia Pacific and MENA. Most operators evaluate it as a wellness concept. It is a clinical one, and that changes who should be at the table.

🔸 A documented four-stage protocol — diagnose, restore response, optimise environment, sustain recovery — not a founder's personal technique
📈 Six operating US locations already prove the model runs without the founder in the room
🌍 Two revenue layers in-clinic and retail, plus sub-licensing rights under a master agreement
🔸 The bench required: TCM practitioners, Nurse Practitioners, RNs, clinical trichologists, nutrition specialists

💡 Market selection here turns on regulatory fit before consumer demand. An existing medical or aesthetic clinic group layers this onto compliance it already carries. A premium spa group can make it work, but only with the clinical hiring plan committed before signing — not after. A pure F&B or retail franchisee, however strong, is the weakest fit in the category.

VF publishes one entry figure: a US$500,000 investment level. Territory scope and terms are set case by case with the brand under NDA.

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A DAMO franchise is a clinical business, not a beauty franchise. What the New York hair restoration model demands of master licence partners across Asia Pacific and MENA.

14/09/2026

🥐 A French brand built on one flatbread just signed up for 50 restaurants in India.

Flam's opens its first India restaurant in Hyderabad's Hitech City in November, then targets 50 units in two years. For anyone underwriting European casual dining in Asia Pacific, the structure matters more than the headline number.

🔸 3,000 sq ft first store — full casual dining, not a kiosk or delivery-first format
📈 50 restaurants targeted across major Indian cities within 24 months
🌍 City-level operators recruited through a development partner, not one national master franchisee
🔸 Single-dish format with a localisable topping layer — the supply chain barely moves

💡 Read the 50-unit figure as pipeline ambition, not a committed build schedule. Spreading rights across many city operators buys speed and dilutes network control at the same time. The Hyderabad unit's trading performance will set the real pace — and that is the number worth waiting for.

The wider signal: India's organised foodservice market is now deep enough to absorb single-dish European formats that would have looked too narrow five years ago. Specificity has stopped being a liability.

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11/09/2026

🗺️ Most franchise deals don't fail on the brand. They fail on the map.

When a master franchisee signs a development schedule, they are contractually promising that a specific territory contains a specific number of viable trade areas. Across much of Asia Pacific and MENA, that promise has historically been made on instinct — because the underlying data was thin.

🔸 Catchments modelled by radius, drive time, walk time or freeform shape — a Kuala Lumpur mall and a Ho Chi Minh City high street are not the same trade area
📈 Resident, worker and consuming-class estimates curated specifically for markets where official statistics are limited
🌍 Available through VF across 23 markets, from Australia and Japan to Saudi Arabia and the UAE
🔸 Competitor and reference-brand mapping across thousands of tracked brands and millions of points of interest

💡 Territory depth is diligence, not decoration. Investors who model catchments before signing negotiate a schedule they can actually meet — and franchisors who check the map first stop awarding rights against opening schedules that were never achievable. VF Franchise Consulting is the exclusive representative of GapMaps across Asia.

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GapMaps franchise location intelligence explained: how master franchisees and multi-unit operators validate sites, model catchments and plan territory across 23 Asia Pacific and MENA markets.

10/09/2026

🌏 A global brokerage just carved India into 126 sellable franchise territories.

Century 21 is entering one of the world's largest residential markets without opening a single office of its own. Regional owners buy a territory, then recruit the network beneath them.

🔸 126 regions mapped for individual sale, with only 6 to 10 awarded in year one
📈 1,500 offices and 30,000 agents targeted within five years
🌍 82 countries and roughly 400,000 agents already under the brand
💰 Royalties stack three layers: franchise owner to regional owner to brand

💡 The signal for capital: service franchising is absorbing money that used to default to F&B. No fit-out, no kitchen, no equipment package — the asset being franchised is a brand, a process and a technology stack. And the India–UAE cross-border corridor is the part a purely domestic competitor cannot replicate.

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Century 21 is entering India by carving the country into 126 franchisable regions, targeting 1,500 offices and 30,000 agents within five years via a regional-master model.

09/09/2026

💯 TEXAS ROADHOUSE – THE ICONIC AMERICAN STEAKHOUSE IS OFFICIALLY COMING TO VIETNAM!

Welcome to Vietnam, Texas Roadhouse! ❤️

⭐ In Vietnam, customers can expect an authentic American steakhouse experience, characterized by generous portions, robust flavors, and a vibrant atmosphere ideal for enjoying memorable meals with family and friends.

💥 VF Franchise Consulting congratulates Texas Roadhouse International and SOL on signing the development agreement to bring Texas Roadhouse to Vietnam!

If you’ve enjoyed Texas Roadhouse abroad, the wait to experience it closer to home may soon be over.

And when the doors open, we’ll be lining up right alongside you. 😊

Legendary Food. Legendary Service.

08/09/2026

🎬 India's largest cinema chain just turned 300 secondary cities into a franchise pipeline.

PVR INOX has opened the first site under a new format built specifically for Tier III India — and it runs on a Franchise-Owned, Company-Operated structure. The partner funds the asset. PVR INOX runs the cinema. For anyone holding rights in capital-heavy experience categories, this is the direction of travel.

🔸 First site: Muzaffarpur, Bihar — 4 screens, 644 seats, opened 4 September
📈 Six further properties already signed, opening within nine months
🌍 Roughly 300 cities mapped, typically 150,000–500,000 population
🔸 A deliberately leaner build than the flagship format, engineered for secondary-city pricing

💡 Format segmentation is becoming standard practice. Mature brands now run flagship, compact and franchise-only formats in parallel, each with its own partner profile — so the question for an investor is no longer which brand, but which format you are actually being offered. Separating ownership from operations is becoming the default wherever fit-out cost is high and operating complexity is higher: cinema, fitness, entertainment, experiential retail. That structure travels cleanly into Southeast Asia and the Gulf, where developers hold the real estate and want anchor traffic rather than another tenant.

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PVR INOX has opened its first SMART Cinema in Muzaffarpur, Bihar under a Franchise-Owned, Company-Operated model, mapping roughly 300 Tier III Indian cities for an asset-light rollout.