Youth in India are ready to explore the franchising opportunities. With the youth gaining more interest in the concept of franchising, franchising industry in India is gaining high momentum. After witnessing the success of franchising in India, great numbers of young entrepreneurs are joining this bandwagon in the recent times. A young entrepreneur finds franchising a convenient mode to expand his business.

In this era, when beauty, wellness and healthcare have gained a universal appeal in urban India, franchising offers huge business opportunities to these sectors. In a recently held franchise knowledge series workshop, in Mumbai, experts from these fields shared their views on the rising trends of franchising in beauty, wellness and health sectors. My sole aim is to provide my readers with some major factors that have propelled the Indian entrepreneurs to invest in these sectors.

Women, with the 10th year of the millennium 2000, are synonymous of power, grace and independence. This can be rightly called as the women’s era, seeing the remarkable progress of the fairer sex in the field of entrepreneurship. Till a few years back any woman venturing into the business arena was looked upon as an alien and was always believed that it was a man’s prerogative to earn money. But with time, women have made a successful transition from home-makers to business entrepreneurs.

The whole world has been engulfed by environmental crisis. If nothing is done things are going to spiral out of control. If everyone decides to go green and make eco friendly lifestyle changes, then we would all be in a much better position. Being an integral part of the business industry, franchising has also been enfolded by this rising concern.

Levi’s, KFC, or Mc Donald’s are some of the international brands that have made successful entry to the Indian soil. Today’s youth and old generations have adopted such brands into their daily lifestyles. Be it, wearing a pair of levi’s jeans or having sumptuous burgers at KFC. Till few years back, franchise was almost an unknown domain to the people. But the concept of franchising has gained a huge popularity particularly with the young/upcoming entrepreneurs.