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Venture is widely recognised as the market leader and the only nationally represented brand within the premium portrait market. Our 90 UK studios provide a truly unique service to our customers and our business model delivers great returns. Venture is quite possibly one of the best franchise opportunities in the market today.


Venture has changed the UK Portrait industry forever. Having shaken the industry out of its traditional past, Venture has pioneered the concept of contemporary and stylish portraiture.

Our Brand

There are many independent portrait studios around the country so why wouldn’t you follow their lead and open one yourself? The strength of the Venture brand sets us apart from the rest. As a Venture franchisee you would benefit from a brand that has been built over a number of years and continues to be recognised by more and more people. Venture is now the ‘first choice’ portrait brand recognised by nearly 40% of our target population.

Our brand is much more than just the sign over our door. It represents our entire approach to our business and our customers, our values and our beliefs about our organisation and remains one of the key differentiators between Venture and the rest of the market.

Over 6 years of trading Venture has established itself as the prominent and pre-eminent high street brand within the portraiture market. Global expansion is currently underway with studios now trading in Hong Kong and the USA.

Venture has not just changed consumer perceptions of what a family portrait should be, it has also totally changed the economics of studio ownership

Our ideal franchise partner will possess many of the following qualities:

• Have a strong interest in photography and a desire to move from ‘interest’ to ‘passion’
• Have self determination and an inner desire to own and run your own business.
• Comfortable leading, motivating and managing a small team of people.
• Possess the discipline to work under a proven method of doing business.
• Are commercially aware – we are not looking for ‘behind a desk’ franchisees.A basic grasp of small business administration would be needed – we can help with the rest.
• Recognises the value of working within a branded business model.

Investment

Whether buying an existing franchise or opening a new one in the UK, you need to be sure that you have adequate financial resources to acquire and open the studio and then have some working capital to cover the first few weeks of opening and the odd ‘rainy day’.

The Initial Franchise Fee for a Venture Franchise is £20,000. This would include all of your initial training and the support throughout the purchase or opening of your business.

We have strong relationships with major lending institutions that would be able to support you with the acquisition price and initial working capital requirements, subject to their normal lending criteria.

Support

You focus on running your business. We take care of developing and then manufacturing and supplying all of the finished products to you as you sell them. Our unique production facility is a ‘one stop shop’ and only supplies Venture studios.