The Australian Franchising Summit is the premier new event for franchise executives to connect, learn, and collaborate on solving critical challenges and seizing opportunities.

This franchise executive-only gathering brings together top brand leaders, providing exclusive insights and inspiration outlining their strategies and actions to drive progressive growth in their businesses. With over 300 franchise systems invited to participate in this jam-packed program, this event is a must-attend on the Australian business calendar.

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We are a preeminent franchising legal practice with lawyers who are recognized as being superior in industry and regulatory knowledge. With unrivaled experience handling major franchise transactions and market-leading disputes experience, our franchising lawyers have an extensive client base of more than 200 franchise systems.

Our franchising lawyers advise domestic and multi-national corporates on the full spectrum of franchising legal matters including regulatory, strategy and government policy, contractual issues, M&A transactions, trademarks and brands, including portfolio management and enforcement, competition and consumer law, dispute resolution and litigation and other general commercial issues.

With comprehensive industry knowledge, our lawyers act for brands who seek an international perspective that our global footprint can provide, blending strategy and sector knowledge with legal input. Our clients’ industries span the entire retail and consumer product sector, from food and agribusiness to health and beauty, and from electronics and telecommunications to automotive and transport.

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At ANZ, we’re dedicated to shaping a world where people and communities thrive. We bring this purpose to life through our strategy, helping customers start, buy, and sustainably grow their business. With the largest network of franchisors in Australia, we offer invaluable insights and opportunities to entrepreneurs.

Understanding the unique needs of businesses, we provide dedicated local banker support along with a streamlined assessment process. Whether you’re a new or existing customer, our expertise in the franchising sector allows us to tailor solutions to support your business throughout its lifecycle.

We take a comprehensive approach to evaluate cash flow, assess borrowing capacity, and unlock value to help you achieve your goals sooner. We collaborate closely with customers to ensure that their success becomes our shared achievement.

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Brand integrity across every location, faster local marketing, lower production spend, and a marketing team freed to focus on strategy instead of asset wrangling. Franchise networks like Bakers Delight already run on it.

Every franchise system carries the same tension: head office needs brand and compliance control, while franchisees need speed and local relevance. Sesimi is the brand asset management and creative automation platform built to resolve exactly that.

Franchisees localise approved templates themselves, changing price, offer, store and dates, without ever going off-brand or looping back through the agency. One asset auto-formats across every channel, so a single campaign reaches social, print, in-store, and digital in minutes rather than days. A single source of truth means the creative in market is always the current version, with no rogue files floating around the network, and the brand team maintains full visibility into what franchisees are actually using.

This is where AI and automation deliver real results in a franchise context, not hype: routine resize, reformat and localisation work that used to sit with an agency now happens in seconds, at a fraction of the cost, with compliance baked into every template.

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Gallagher is an international insurance brokerage, risk management and consulting firm, operating in over 130 countries.  In Australia, we have become the chosen partner to clients from small family run businesses through to multinational corporations.

The Gallagher network of regional and metropolitan branches across Australia means we’re connected to local business communities because we’re part of them ourselves, helping us to better understand the unique risks and needs of every business we service.

We are the proud broker to some of Australia’s largest Franchisors and Franchisees ensuring that everyone is covered with the bespoke policy wordings we have developed.

Gallagher proudly partners with organisations, events and teams that touch communities around the globe.  From worthwhile charities like Special Olympics to the excitement of elite sports, the mission and the message of Gallagher are on display through our partnerships.

Your Trusted Partner for Insurance and Consulting, Gallagher Helps You Face Your Future With Confidence

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CFI Finance is a non-bank commercial lender funding small business in Australia and New Zealand.

At CFI we’ve helped thousands of customers to start, acquire, and grow their franchise businesses. As an independent finance company we have the flexibility to learn more about our customers and to say yes more often.

Through our competitive range of loan, lease and working capital products we help franchisees to fund new store fitouts, store refurbishments, business acquisitions, equipment purchases, motor vehicles, and more.

Our advanced accreditation model allows us to work closely with a broad range of franchise networks to provide existing and new franchisees with streamlined access to the funding they need, whether they’re expanding to multi-site ownership or just starting out.

If you’d like to find out how CFI Finance can help make your business goals reality, contact us now on 1300 659 676, and talk to a CFI Franchise Lending Specialist – we have team members dedicated to supporting and growing franchise networks ready to assist you.

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