Fibrenew Franchise Opportunity Throughout Australia

Does this describe you?

Are you ready to be your own boss?
Do you like to work with your hands?
Do you enjoy relationship selling?
Can you distinguish colours adequately? (not colour blind)

Fibrenew, a recognized and respected global brand:

Since 1987, Fibrenew has been the industry leader with the development of exceptional leather, plastic and vinyl repair products and restoration techniques. The combined knowledge and experience of our 230+ franchisees around the world is unparalleled. We have expanded our global presence to include franchise units in the United States, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand and Australia.

When you are awarded a Fibrenew franchise, you will receive:

An exclusive protected territory
Use of Trade name and Trademark
Access to proprietary products and methods and manuals
Comprehensive training program
Complete inventory and equipment
Stationery and marketing package
Personal website and online marketing support
Ongoing Technical Support via phone and internet
Access to our Technical Library
Continuous education, support via seminars, workshops and conferences

A Fibrenew franchise in Australia offers:

Flat-fee franchise model
Low overhead, home-based mobile business
Cutting edge research & development
Exclusive service and product line
Flexible lifestyle and work schedule – you set your own hours
Being part of winning team with a proven business model

Source: Franchise Territories Now Available Throughout Australia

Leather Repairs in Durham Region - Fibrenew Port Perry

Anne and Maurice Fadalti with their Fibrenew Port Perry van. The fibrenew franchisee owners are in the business of repairing and restoring leather, plastic and vinyl. And if you're sick of the colour of that leather chair, Maurice can change it. - Courtesy of Fibrenew Port Perry.

DURHAM — You’ve heard of the three Rs, right? Well at Fibrenew Port Perry, they stand for other things.

“We repair, restore and re-dye most things that are leather, plastic and vinyl,” says Scugog-based franchisee Maurice Fadalti.

The former Slick Kitty rocker says his area covers most of Durham Region, including Oshawa and Whitby, and Kawartha Lakes. He’s 100 per cent mobile and will come to you to do the work.

And the work is wide-ranging. That beautiful leather couch your cat loves more than you, as evidenced by all the scratch marks? Fibrenew can repair it and other leather furniture. And if you want to change the colour of your leather item or furniture, it can do that, too.

Leather car seats, vinyl dashboards, benches and plastic moulding in boats and even your home’s damaged vinyl siding are all within range of a Fibrenew repair. And the finished product won’t look as if you did it yourself; there will be little if any evidence of a repair at all. Fadalti has met a few clients who tried a home repair on their own...read more!

Finding the Right Franchise Fit

How Fibrenew Has Grown to 240+ Global Locations

We recently caught up with Fibrenew’s Director of Franchise Development, Bob Johnston. Bob joined the Fibrenew family in 2012, and he knows which qualities make a great prospective franchisee. As he tells it, finding the right fit has a lot do to with aligned values–namely honesty, and integrity. Fibrenew’s transparency is a big part of why we’re in the top 15% of Franchise Business Review’s 2017 Top 50 Franchise list. Of course, there’s a bit more to the story. Here’s how we help would-be owners decide to invest in a lifestyle franchise like Fibrenew.

 Getting Started
Finding the right fit starts with scheduling a phone call with Bob or a member of the development team to learn a bit more about each other, including why you’re considering a franchise. We hear from people with a variety of motivations, from a recent layoff, to a desire to be more self-reliant, i.e. ready to be your own boss. Once you’ve had a chance to ask questions, and you’re interested in continuing the conversation, Bob and the team will dig a little deeper to confirm you possess, what he refers to as “5 Essential Qualities”.

5 Essential Qualities of a Fibrenew Franchise Owner

Trait #1: A Tetrachromat
“Tetra-who?” – don’t let the term throw you off, it’s just the technical term for having complete color vision. A significant part of our mobile repair business involves working with color and color-matching, so being color-blind is one of the few things that might stand in your way of being a successful Fibrenew franchise owner.

Trait #2: Handy
Do you enjoy working with your hands? This is a great role if you like rolling up your sleeves and getting your hands dirty on the occasional DIY project or light repair job. Keep in mind you don’t need technical knowhow to do our repairs just yet – that’s what we’re here to teach you about.

Trait #3: Trainable & Coachable
Be open to training and certified coaching. We’ve been fine tuning our processes since 1987. So while you will certainly bring your own personality and strengths to franchise ownership, please respect that we have a proven business model – reinvention of the wheel is not necessary.

Trait #4: In Shape
Doing repair work is going to require some bending and lifting. You don’t need to be a top athlete, but you do need to be in reasonable physical condition, as opposed to having chronic arthritis in your hands, or nagging knee or back issues.

Trait #5: People Person
According to Bob, the most important quality is being a people-person. As he explains, you need to be somebody who “isn’t afraid to introduce yourself, shake hands and go right to showing [before & after] pictures. When people see these pictures, their first words usually are ‘You can do that?’ ” Yes, we certainly can! continue reading!

Leather Renovation/Restoration Man of Wilkes-Barre/Scranton : Dick Streever

By: Clare Parkhurst of InSide The Back Mountain

My first meeting with Dick Streever is very memorable for me. Our meeting came about after he phoned me with questions about InSide the Back Mountain magazine. He had received InSide in his Shavertown mailbox and was curious about how our magazine could benefit his business. Our first meeting was early last fall at his business located in Swoyersville.

More than writing about the people, the businesses and the “going’s on” in The Back Mountain, what I find most rewarding is really getting to know about how people arrived here, why they came here and what they find so appealing about our community. That conversational process is the best thing about what I do. I love getting to know new people and their stories. Dick Streever’s story is a special one.

Dick is a quiet man but certainly not one reluctant to share his story. Dick and I are contemporaries…. baby boomers. We share a lot of the same opinions like the old comments from grandparents and parents who have always claimed, “This new generation is just not the same”. Our conversation interestingly started by talking about what we both call “the disposable generation”. John C. O’Keefe from Creative Commons describes this so well in his blog: “Recently we had an issue with our coffee maker. It refused to make coffee – and, generally speaking, for a coffee maker that’s not a good thing. So, I did what all dutiful husbands would do to keep their wives from destroying the house: I contacted the company in hopes of sending it back to them for repairs. The company was quick to offer us a new one, sent to us at no charge. I thought, ‘Ok, we will send back the old one, they will fix it and sell it online as refurbished.’ When I asked what to do with the broken one, I was told, ‘Toss it out – it’s broken.’ Unfortunately, this is nothing new, we live in a disposable culture, a culture where tossing something away when it breaks is easier, and often cheaper, than it is to get it fixed. TV breaks, get a new one; fan breaks, get a new one; coffee maker breaks, get a new one. Disposable lighters, computers, cell phones, radios – you name it, it’s made to be tossed away, and not repaired – we have moved from a ‘repair culture’, to a ‘consumer culture’. If it is broken, toss it out.” more of the story!