Fernwood Fitness and Plus Fitness among 2024 Topfranchise award winners

The 10 THOUSAND FEET Strategic Market Research team has announced the 2024 Topfranchise Award winners with Fernwood Fitness and Plus Fitness among this year’s overall top 10.

Every year the Topfranchise Awards – delivered by the 10 THOUSAND FEET Strategic Market Research team - recognise best practice within the franchising sector across six categories; marketing, branding, passion, support, lifestyle and innovation.

The Top 10 Awards recognise franchises that perform well in the selected category as rated by current franchisees – highlighting the best franchises for sale in Australia.

10 THOUSAND FEET is a strategic market research agency that provides a full range of quantitative and qualitative research services in areas such as brand research and strategy, employee engagement research, franchisee satisfaction surveys, customer usage and attitude research, customer journey mapping research, customer satisfaction research, sales data aggregation, segmentation and profiling research, campaign and product testing, social impact research and online reputation management.

Alongside the fitness industry, this year’s 10 Topfranchise Award winners come from a wide array of industries including human resources, food, retail, personal services, renovations and mortgage brokers.

Winners include Frontline Recruitment Group, Soul Origin, Snap-on Tools Australia & New Zealand, Fernwood Fitness (above left), Mister Minit, Dream Doors Australia, Snooze, ANZ Mobile Lending, Ferguson Plarre's Bakehouse and Plus Fitness (above right).

The 2024 Topfranchise Awards placed Fernwood Fitness in 4th place overall and Plus Fitness 10th overall.

The highest placement for Fernwood Fitness in a category top 10 was for Passion where they came 2nd.

The highest placement for Plus Fitness in a category top 10 was for Lifestyle where they came 4th.

The 10 THOUSAND FEET Strategic Market Research team surveyed thousands of franchisees across Australia to determine the award winners.

Ian Krawit (pictured above), Founder 10 THOUSAND FEET Market & Social Research and Project Director 10 THOUSAND TREES enthused "a massive congratulations to all of this year's winners and top 10 place getters! Your support teams should be very proud. With such a diverse range of industries represented in this year’s top 10 it highlights that with the right strategy, brand and people, anyone can thrive, no matter the industry vertical.”

10 THOUSAND FEET was founded in early 2003 by Krawitz. As a 100% private Australian owned company, 10 THOUSAND FEET are an independent, agile and responsive partner to their clients.

For more information on the award selection process

For more information on franchisee satisfaction surveys

Image top. 2024 Topfranchise Award; Image centre top: Fernwood Fitness Masterclass Live. Credit: Fernwood Fitness; Image centre bottom: Plus Fitness Glebe. Credit: Plus Fitness; Image below: Ian Krawit, Founder 10 THOUSAND FEET Market & Social Research and Project Director 10 THOUSAND TREES