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Type of Franchise: Sales & Management
Industry Sector: Healthcare, sales & management
Year established: 1901
Franchising since: 2005
WPA is one of the leading medical insurance companies in the UK (with a heritage of over 100 years), looking after some 300,000 customers with numerous awards for excellence. We operate in the private client, small corporate and large corporate marketplaces and have gained a well deserved reputation for excellence in customer service. You will work with us to promote our ethos of providing exemplary levels of customer care, and will actively promote yourself as the "local face of WPA". We provide full Head Office support and training with the opportunity to work towards monthly, quarterly, half-yearly and yearly incentives.
We employ around 220 staff with another 150 in global locations. Our franchise team is nationwide and we currently have around 100 successful franchises in operation throughout the country. There's no need for premises, vans, stock or staff. You will be supported by the WPA team in areas of training, advertising, marketing, sales techniques and business planning. Regular training events are held at Head Office in Taunton, Somerset and regionally; you will also have the day-to-day support of Regional Directors in your local area.
Investment Requirement: £7,500 (including VAT) plus £2,500 returnable fidelity bond (VAT exempt)

Oct/Nov 2008: Robert Westhorp, WPA, South Manchester
“Only the best people become franchisees”
September 2008: Tina Kemp, Hampshire
The diversity of the job keeps me focused
September 2008: WPA seeks 20 new franchisees
Medical Insurance provider WPA has launched its nationwide recruitment campaign and is looking for 20 franchisees who will treat customers fairly in accordance with the WPA culture.
January 2007: Challenging & varied sales/customer service business
Entering its second year as a franchise, Western Provident Association (WPA) is confident that its WPA franchise will become even better known throughout the UK. WPA is a not-for-profit Private Medical Insurer with over 300,000 customers in the UK and a history going back over 100 years. The business is split relatively equally between private business (individuals and self-employed) and corporate business (SME and very large FTSE 100). "We are best known for our culture of putting the customer at the centre of all that we do and actually meaning it,"states
the company.
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