You are interested in starting your own business, you are a good manager with a keen sense of business - you want to be independent, but appreciate the support of a reliable partner...

Join the A u g i a s® Network

Today, which franchises enable you to:
Start a business:
- virtually without stock?
- with no costly N° 1 location?
- with no sumptuous fixtures?
Have 80 to 100% of recurrent contracts over several years?
Know what your earnings will be for more than a year?
...With the personal satisfaction of being an audacious CEO, significant generator of economic activity and job creator over an exclusive area.

Our network aims to become an essential part of the market with an innovative franchise concept including:
- Externalisation of basic administrative jobs at controlled cost;
- Low investment costs (no stock, no lease premium, no fixtures);
- A rapid return on investment;
- The experience and prior presence of a partner reputed in the profession for its innovative market approach;
- Daily support by the franchisor.

A u g i a s® franchisees can therefore devote all their time to developing the business, unlike most SME managers who waste half their time on non-profit making jobs.

The market study on cleaning performed by Augias at the time of its creation was very pertinent. According to its founder and chairman, Lionel Bieder, a new economic model was needed in the sector.
It required the construction of a model midway between the major players in the sector and the PME type, which are often precarious or ready for repurchase.
The A u g i a s® model retains the qualities of two classic models:
- Large companies: reputation and economy of scale (structured management, purchasing cooperative)
- Small companies: service quality, proximity and reactivity;
without, however, suffering the difficulties.
Organisation and reactivity are the two factors for A u g i a s®' success in this fast-growing sector.

Our customers and franchisees have understood perfectly: "Customer-proximity" and "service-reactivity" are vital competitive advantages...
- Relational proximity and sales drive
- Quality of service and systematic inspection
- Centralisation of associated prerogatives (administration, management, communication).

Twice as much time devoted to company development:
By centralising and automating most of the administrative and social management, by simplifying equipment purchasing procedures (purchasing cooperative), the Augias concept enables the entrepreneur-franchisee to concentrate on:
- Sales development
- Personnel management
- Operation monitoring
- Quality control procedures.
...unlike most SME managers who waste half their time on non-profit making jobs.
The Augias network offers its franchisees complete logistics (advice, theoretical material, practical tools) so that they can devote themselves fully to developing and running their business.
Apart from the initial training provided for all new franchisees, Augias also provides support and rigorous monitoring throughout the start-up and installation phases.

Advice and theoretical materials
Quantitative and macroeconomic analyses
Range of competition
Sectoral specificities
Sales arguments
Advice in drawing up offers
Advice in social law (and its aspects which are specific to the cleaning sector).
Management advice
Advice on techniques, products and equipment
Access to specific training courses
Quality control materials.

Management tools
Incoming information processing (phone/fax) and redispatching via Blackberry
Order and purchase processing via access to the Augias purchasing cooperative
Salary processing including salary advice preparation
Customer invoice processing
Supplier invoice processing
Accounting entries
Drafting monthly management charts (per site, customer and company)
Customer follow-up and reminders
Regular Network Benchmarking and corrective actions

Communication tools
Stationery (Visiting cards, correspondence cards, letter heading, envelopes, specimen fax)
Specimen estimate and commercial proposal
Sales leaflets and brochures
Website augias-proprete.net
Professional press advertising campaign

Our brand name
Euristheus ordered Hercules to go to the Augean (Augias in French) stables.
The stables, where more than 3000 cattle were kept, had not been cleaned for 30 years...
Hercules opened up breaches in the stable walls then altered the course of the river Alpheus and sent its purifying, tumultuous water flowing through the stables. He then closed up the walls.
The stables were made clean and healthy in a single day....
This was the first cleaning job in History...

Your profile
Our current unit managers are from backgrounds as different as international trade, supermarket management, consultancy, training, temporary employment and defence. One of them is a young commercial college graduate.
No particular previous experience in the cleaning sector is required: Five weeks of training and support during start up are included in the franchise pack.
Charismatic leaders with a keen commercial sense will be the most successful. They will be capable of managing a team of twenty employees and of attaining sales of up to 700 000$ before tax within three years, and a regular 15% to 20% growth in sales in their exclusive territory. A sense of service and belonging to a network will be essential.

Our details
Augias (France)
Postal address P.B. 20 014
F-57 129 Thionville CEDEX
Tel: +33 (0)3 82 86 00 01
Fax: +33 (0)3 82 86 00 02
Offices: 178 B avenue des Nations 57970 YUTZ
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Contact: Jean-Christophe CHAMPEIL
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