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I have built the perfect business and lifestyle for me. I've shaped my business to exactly what I wa..
Well, here I am up and running with my very own Ed's business. I am growing in confidence each week ..
My business is really flying now. Beyond what I could have imagined. I couldn't have achieved what I..
I have grown so much in knowledge since joining Ed's. Delivering the services was relatively straigh..
I am into my stride running my Ed's business now. I look back and realise how much I have learnt. It..
One of the things that I really love about my Ed's business is the flexibility that I have. In my pr..
It will soon be my first anniversary with Ed's. I feel like I have learned so much in a a relatively..
I would never have believed it possible to get as much work as I do from being part of the Ed's fran..
I worked in landscape gardening before joining Ed's. I loved the outdoors nature of the job but I wa..
I am running a strong Ed's business and I am constantly fine-tuning it to be more profitable. I enj..
I am getting great satisfaction from building my Ed's business and could never go back to my previou..
I have been with Ed's almost ten years now. My experience is that, once you get a business like this..
Another summer season begins and I am just as enthusiastic about my business as I was at the very st..
This is my second summer season with Ed's and I am enjoying being in the driving seat so much. I fee..
I'm getting well into the swing of running my gardening business already. I cannot believe how busy ..
I am totally in my element running my Ed's business down in Somerset. I feel like I get the best of ..
I realised quite quickly after I joined Ed's how much scope there is to build a great business of sc..
I enjoy sharing my experience with newer business owners who are still in the phase of getting their..
I've built up a lot of gardening experience over the years and I definitely still get a big thrill f..
I've run a successful Ed's business on the outskirts of London. I subsequently moved to a very rural..
I am really ambitious and I never rest on my laurels. When I see things going really well in my busi..
It's a huge thing to set up and run your own gardening business. You put a lot of yourself into your..
I am extremely proud of the business I have built with Ed's. I have made some sound business decisio..
I still love gardening and I still love running my Ed's business. My wife and I have managed to carv..
I guess I am now a seasoned Ed’s business owner now as it will soon be my fourth anniversary with ..
I’ve now been running my Ed’s business for over six years. I have grown so much in skills and co..
Well this is my seventh spring with Ed's. Each year there is such a sense of opportunity at this tim..
My business continues to flourish and I love running it. Mowing is really central to my business and..
As time goes by I value my holidays more and more. I love having the best of both worlds - I have a..
I'm still very much enjoying running my Ed's Gardening Business. I find it fulfilling in that I gene..
I've recently renewed my contract with Ed's and still enjoy running a strong gardening business . I ..
I'm really proud of the gardening business that I have built with Ed's. I sometimes take new busines..
We still thoroughly enjoy running our gardening business. We have some lovely loyal regular customer..
One of the great things about Ed's is the other business owners. I find that if ever I have a questi..
My Ed’s business continues to grow almost as quickly as my children do! I would never have predict..
The lifestyle aspect of running an Ed’s business cannot be underestimated. Everyone wants to run a..
I’m one of many business owners who have renewed my contract to stay with Ed’s. A very high perc..
I have been with Ed's almost thirteen years now, through so many stages of my life - single, married..
I have learned so much since joining Ed's. I knew the business I wanted to build when I started runn..
I'm now into my sixteenth year with Ed's. The franchise still works very well for me. I'm still ful..
I had a long and successful teaching career before joining Ed’s. I had no shortage of passion for ..
I have been with Ed's since 2017 and I still really enjoy running a flourishing gardening business. ..
The flexibility in Ed's is wonderful. Not just the flexibility to shape your ideal business but also..
One of the best things about being part of Ed's is the freedom it gives you. I am Canadian and can t..
I am one of Ed's most experienced business owners, having been with the franchise for almost fourtee..
I'm now into my eleventh year as an Ed's Operator. My business is unrecognisable - it has gone from ..
I have spent many years working in production-related roles for companies that have huge internation..
I've built a great business with Ed's and I am really proud of what I've created. I have a strong an..
I am an experienced groundsman, most recently working for a well known London stadium. It was an ama..
I’m looking forward to another busy season with Ed’s. No year is the same. Every new one brings ..
Well, the time has come for me to sell up, hang up my gardening gloves and move on from Ed's. My wif..
I was a groundsman for years before joining Ed's. I loved the work, not so much the structure and la..
I worked in the hospitality sector for a number of years. Career progress came quickly for me and I ..
I've achieved many of the goals that I set out to when I joined Ed's. I have been able to tailor the..
I was fortunate to have a successful business career at quite a young age. It was great in many way..
I first discovered Ed's some years ago when I worked for an established Ed's business in the London ..
A lot of things impressed me about Ed's but the quality of the people stood out from the start. Ed a..
I have got the best of all worlds with Ed. I am running a thriving and profitable business whilst li..
I love the flexibility that Ed's gives you to shape your business to suit your life. We moved to a b..
I've learned so much since joining Ed's. The past five years have gone by in a flash and I've develo..
I've built up a really strong and efficient gardening business with Ed's. Balance has always been im..
I feel that I have now got my Ed's business exactly where I dreamed it might get to. I am kept very ..
The Ed's franchise has worked really well for me. I worked in catering before and thanked my lucky s..
Well, what can I say about Ed's...I love the work, I love my freedom and I love the lifestyle that g..
I knew when I joined Ed's that I was joining a quality brand that could really propel my business to..
I can't believe just how much I have learned and how much my confidence has grown since I joined Ed'..
I am the living proof that an Ed's franchise is pretty much bomb-proof! I joined right at the start ..
Just a quick update from me....I have been blown away by how much my business has taken off since jo..
I have just recorded my most profitable month ever and I am feeling great about the season ahead. I..
I’d hankered after setting up a gardening business and being my own boss for quite some time. I am..
I thought (very) briefly about going it alone but I instinctively knew my chances of success were mu..
Just a little summer update... It's been pretty much business as usual for me during the Pandemic. I..
I lived in Greece until a few years ago, where I worked as a grape producer. Since moving to the U..
Life has changed a lot in recent months as I have become a new dad, which is fabulous although exhau..
I am now into my fifth year of running my Ed's business and things are going very well with my busin..
The true strength of Ed's is effective pooling all of our collective knowledge. We do that really we..
I really enjoy the freedom that Ed's gives me compared to what other career paths would do. I can ru..
I am now in my sixth year as an Ed's Business Owner. I've built a strong, strategic business that ..
I am now an 'experienced Ed's Business Owner' yet I still feel that I'm learning all the time. I sti..
I had spent many years working in sales management in a visual communications business. I had the cl..
I feel like everything has really slotted into place with my business. I've reached my target of re..
For many years I played a very active part in the running of a sizeable and successful family busine..
I can hardly believe that I've been running my Ed's business for almost eight years now. I'm deligh..
My Ed's business has grown beyond recognition. If someone had told me when I started that my busines..
I've been running my Ed's business for seven and a half years now and it has exceeded my expectation..
Running an Ed's business has been an excellent choice for my wife and I. We really enjoy the gardeni..
I now have a very well-established Ed's business. I really enjoy the work and can run it like clockw..
Before joining Ed’s I was a European Sales Director for a large American Company which involved a ..
Well here I am, six years in with my Ed's business and I still really enjoy running it and find new ..
I started my Ed's business in Streatham in April 2018. It’s still early days for me as I’m only ..
I was a college lecturer for many years. I taught students with public service careers skills such ..
I've been with Ed's since 2014, which was around the time my brother-in-law started his Ed's franchi..
My previous job was Managing Director of a Risk Management consultancy before joining Ed's in June 2..
Running my own business is not a new thing for me. I have been running my own golf club catering man..
I bought an established Ed's business from Lucy towards the end of 2016. I considered several garden..
I've been an Ed's Operator for many years and I've built up a sizeable business in the Wimbledon are..
I was a director in the financial services sector before joining Ed's in the Spring of 2018. I enjoy..
I've now been with Ed's eight years. Life has changed a lot since then. I've got married (Ed was at ..
Well, here I am coming up to my 10th anniversary as an Ed's Operator. My business and my children ha..
I joined Ed's in the spring of 2014 after working for a long time in oil. The oil sector had taken a..
Tired of my City career, I started an Ed’s business in Surrey in March 2014. Fuelled by my success..
I recently moved with his family to the UK from Zimbabwe to invest with Anita, the Wimbledon Ed's Op..
Since joining Ed's I've moved my Ed's business twice to suit my personal circumstances. Ed's systems..
I've been more successful with my Ed's business than I could ever have imagined. That hit home when ..
I've recently celebrated my 10th anniversary as an Ed's Operator. I was asked how I wanted to celebr..
Having worked in the ultra-competitive world of media sales and marketing for many years, I underst..
I joined Ed's Garden Services in the Spring of 2017. Prior to joining Ed's, I was a Works Manager fo..
I bought my Ed's business in September 2016 when a successful Ed's Operator decided to release some ..
I moved from South Africa with my family in 2016 and was looking for a good business to run. Ed's ou..
I set up my Ed's business in Rustington in October 2016 and the Ed's experience has been excellent f..
I was a black cabbie before joining Ed's in June 2017 and I know how important it is to go the extra..
My life has moved on quite a bit since I joined Ed's. I'm now married and have a young child. When ..
Lucy decided to sell her Ed's business and follow her dream to move to Bali for a while. She had a g..
I've got young children with intensive healthcare requirements. For a franchise business to work for..
Paul Crocker runs an Ed's franchise in Swindon. Paul worked for over 20 years in auditing in financ..
Tired of the extensive travelling in his wholesale business and an increasingly difficult business e..
I joined Ed's because I wanted to take control of my life and get outdoors. I was attracted to runni..
Ed's Garden Maintenance welcomes Ian Waters who has taken on a franchise business covering Norwich a..
Prior to Ed's I was involved in property development and landscape gardening. I really enjoyed garde..
Having spent time in the Army, on leaving school I joined Cobham - an Aviation engineering services ..
Ed's Garden Maintenance is the best thing that I have ever done. I ran my own gardening business ..
In my previous life, I worked in landscape gardening and knew a healthy outdoors job was where I th..
Maybe life does begin at 40. At 39, my career as a salesman in the motor industry was going no..
My decision to join Ed's was really a lifestyle choice – a healthy outdoors life and the flexibili..
We moved out of London to the West County and I had to either find a job or start up my own business..
After 28 years in recruitment I wanted to feel energised again. I wanted a different life. I had al..
I was a communications officer with the Metropolitan Police for 19 years and took early retirement. ..
In my previous life, I managed a fencing plant and had a lot of management responsibility. I got so ..
I was working as an employee in my Eds business when the operator decided he wanted to do something ..
I bought an established garden maintenance business from an Ed's Operator. Redundancy gave me a grea..
I recently acquired an established garden maintenance business from an existing Ed's Operator, who h..
Sarah ran her business from January 2007 to 2012, and successfully grew her business into a multi em..
I tried to set up my own gardening business before joining Ed's as an Operator, but marketing, which..
I moved to the UK from New Zealand where I worked in agriculture, so I've always been a hard working..
I'm pleased to be part of the Ed's team. All of us Ed's operators are motivated and dedicated to suc..
A little initiative pays off a lot. After being made redundant twice from jobs in the city I'd ha..
Five years ago, I moved from South Africa where I cultivated two acres. Now I am back outdoors. Afte..
After living abroad and running a ski hotel I started looking for a business opportunity that fitted..
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