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MicroFranchising

A Powerful Tool in the Fight

Against Poverty

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MicroFranchising: A Powerful Tool in the Fight Against Poverty

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MicroFranchising: A Powerful Tool in the Fight Against Poverty

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MicroFranchising: A Powerful Tool in the Fight Against Poverty

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MicroFranchising: A Powerful Tool in the Fight Against Poverty

Objective:

Winning the fight against poverty

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MicroFranchising: How does it fit with Asset-Based Community Development?

Belief:A community can use what it has

to get what it wants –

Mathopestat

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MicroFranchising: How does it fit with Asset-Based Community Development?

Result:A community takes stock of

• what it has – assets -

• what it earns – income -

to create its own economic development plan – i.e. create more wealth

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MicroFranchising: How does it fit with Asset-Based Community Development?

Leaky Bucket Exerciseleads to

Community Development Plan

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MicroFranchising: How does it fit with Corporate Social Investment?

Corporate Social InvestmentA Powerful Change Agent

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MicroFranchising: How does it fit with Corporate Social Investment?

Strategic Plan = Win-WinCommunity = Asset to Corporate

Investor

Corporate Investor = Asset to Community

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MicroFranchising: How does it fit with Corporate Social Investment?

CSI Objective:

Strategies which result in measurable positive

impacts to both community and corporate investor

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MicroFranchising

MicroFranchising

What is its relationship to ABCD and CSI?

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MicroFranchising

TEAM WORK

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MicroFranchising

A Powerful Tool

in The

Fight Against Poverty

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MicroFranchising: A Powerful Tool In The Fight Against Poverty

This Session’s Objective:• Explore How World’s Most Successful

Business Model Can Create Wealth for South Africa’s Least Successful Communities

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MicroFranchising: Meeting Agenda

MicroFranchising: Crossing the Frontier

from Non-Profit to Profit

Martha DeaconFounder and CEO, The Townships Project

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MicroFranchising: Meeting Agenda

Franchising in Frontier Markets

Robin Miller Dalberg Global Development Advisors

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MicroFranchising: Meeting Agenda

Franchising in South Africa:Getting to the Bottom of the Pyramid

Peter MoyangaMcDonald’s Franchisee in South Africa

Past Chair of FASA

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MicroFranchising: Meeting Agenda

Banking the MicroFranchisor

RoleneGovindasamy

Franchising Manager, Standard Bank

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MicroFranchising: Meeting Agenda

Lending to the MicroFranchisee

VuyiswaKeyiManaging Director

Bittersweet Trade & Invest

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MicroFranchising: Meeting Agenda

Question & Answer – Moderated byLana Lovasic

Greater Rustenburg Community Foundation

Close of Symposium – JacoImmelman

Department of Geography, UNISA

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Crossing the Frontier from Non-Profit to Profit

Martha Deacon

Founder and CEO

The Townships Project

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Crossing the Frontier from Non-Profit to Profit

Why is a Canadian talking about MicroFranchising in South Africa?

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Crossing the Frontier from Non-Profit to Profit

The Townships Project:

• 12 years supporting business loans to poorest in SA

• Act through local organizations; not direct

• Addressing the changing marketplace

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Crossing the Frontier from Non-Profit to Profit

• Mission: Better stuff at a lower price

• Reality: The poor pay more for virtually everything

• Opportunity: Find out what they buy & offer better products at a cheaper price

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Crossing the Frontier from Non-Profit to Profit

• MicroFranchising – based on most powerful business model on earth

• Franchising - more millionaires – faster – than any other business model in history

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Crossing the Frontier from Non-Profit to Profit

• Starts with a successful business whether it’s selling hamburgers or cars – and clones it

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FIRST KEY: MAKE A PROFIT

• The business must be successful

• Cloning an unsuccessful business multiplies losses and compounds failures

Crossing the Frontier from Non-Profit to Profit

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Crossing the Frontier from Non-Profit to Profit

• Consistent, well-defined processes and procedures

• Create a well-recognized brand

SECOND KEY: CREATE SATISFIED CUSTOMERS

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Crossing the Frontier from Non-Profit to Profit

• Operated by well-trained franchisees at a profit to both the franchisees and the franchisor in a …

• Constantly improving model

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Crossing the Frontier from Non-Profit to Profit

Asset Based Community Development meets

Corporate Social Investment meets

MicroFranchising

Mathopestat – in the future?

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Crossing the Frontier from Non-Profit to Profit

• Light and energy• Water and sanitation• Cooking stoves and

ovens• Food production and

agriculture

• Health and wellbeing• Transportation and

communication • Education and training

All communities need the same products and services:

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Crossing the Frontier fromNon-Profit to Profit

Those at the BoP spend the same money as those at the top…

just not the same amount

Bottom of Economic Pyramid (BoP)

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Crossing the Frontier fromNon-Profit to Profit

• What is the BoP already buying?

• Can we provide better stuff at a cheaper price?

MicroFranchising Focuses On BoP

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Crossing the Frontier fromNon-Profit to Profit

Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP)Low income, not no income

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Crossing the Frontier fromNon-Profit to Profit

How the 20% at South Africa’s BoP spent each Rand in 2004

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Crossing the Frontier fromNon-Profit to Profit

Bureau of Market Research, Unisa. 2004a. Total Household Expenditure in South Africa by Income Group, Life Plane, Life Stage and Product. Research Report No. 326, Pretoria

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VODACOMA MicroFranchising Success

Government mandate of 1994

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VODACOMA MicroFranchising Success

Government mandate of 1994

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VODACOMA MicroFranchising Success

• Now one of South Africa’s most valuable companies in 2010

• The Community Phoneshop: Better Stuffat Lower Cost

“Low Income does not mean No Income”, Pierre Coetzer - http://web.me.com/reciprocity2/BOP_Lab/Publications_files/Vodacom08.pdf

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VODACOMA MicroFranchising Success

• 1.2% share of BoP Spending – from 0 to 90,000 microfranchises in 15 years

• Franchisor Adaptability – ‘call per second’ leads to

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VODACOMA MicroFranchising Success

• Customer loyalty – portability results in net loss of a mere 6,000 on a total customer base of 24 million

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VODACOM A Community Phoneshop

• Rate per minute is set at 30% of commercial pre-paid rates so customers using community phoneshops can make calls at a 70% discount

• Customers purchase exactly the amount of airtime they need or can afford

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VODACOM A Community Phoneshop

• Shop owners earn on average R 9000 per month in centrally located townships site =

real franchisee profits

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VODACOM A Community Phoneshop

VODACOM Benefit• Lower management

and infrastructure costs• Minimizes financial and

business exposure • Builds large distribution

channel and brand recognition in its largest market

FRANCHISEE Benefit• Ownership in the community• Owner buys discounted,

prepaid airtime and on-sells it• Owner understands

community’s needs and has huge incentive to succeed

• Owner gets training and support from 3rd party

By May 2008nearly 90,000 micro-franchises from 0 in mid-90s

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VODACOMA MicroFranchising Success

Huge potential for Vodacom and for other microfranchises –

A cellphone is a

BANK – payment/transfers

SCHOOL - training

RADIO – news/market

ACCOUNTANT – restocking/bookkeeping

And accessible to 2/3 of Africans

2007 FinScope survey for FinMark Trust

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MicroFranchising and Cellphone Technology

• The future: Spectaculareconomic leverage from data services

• Tanzania: Text message questionnaires took the stockout rate in malaria clinics from 75% down to 25%

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MicroFranchising and Cellphone Technology

• Get prices down - India - $0.02 per minute vs South Africa at $0.20 to $0.50 per minute –

• Look to the future – banking, education, training, stock-taking, accounting

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MicroFranchising and Cellphone Technology

MicroFranchising&Cellphone Technology

Can Provide

Better Stuff Cheaper

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Crossing the Frontier from Non-Profit to Profit

HOW CAN ABCD HELP?

ABCD can ensure MicroFranchising goes where it is

needed and wanted

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Crossing the Frontier from Non-Profit to Profit

• Light and energy• Water and sanitation• Cooking stoves and

ovens• Food production and

agriculture

• Health and wellbeing• Transportation and

communication • Education and training

All communities need the same products and services:

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Crossing the Frontier from Non-Profit to Profit

• Communities at the BoP need essentially the same sets of goods and services

• We already know how much BoP is spending on these goods and services…

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Cloning Success vs. Reinventing the Wheel

Huge market incentive

for franchisors

to enter the BoP market and

do what they have always done

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MicroFranchising Expertise

• Simple, efficient training – 3 days to 2 weeks

• Find Locations – no more than 1 hour walk from clients

• Build Brand – credibility and loyalty

• Create efficient supply and restocking chains

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• Provide appropriate contracts and legal support

• Arrange loan financing for franchisees (R 1500 to 3x GDP)

• Develop products and payment methods consistent with cash flow of clients

MicroFranchising Expertise

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Bureau of Market Research, UNISA

Small business success and failure in Soweto

Prof. A.A. Ligthelm, Bureau of Market Research, UNISA

Small Business Success and Failure in Soweto: A Longitudinal Analysis (2007 – 2008) (Research Report No. 377)

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Bureau of Market Research, UNISA

• Background: 83% of Sowetans have no plans to move

• Implication: Substantial market potential because of the rapid increase in consumer expenditure

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Bureau of Market Research, UNISA

• Reasons for business success: Highest yearly survival rate (70%) attributable to business skills

• Examples of business skills: Business plans, marketing policies, analyzing competition and adjusting strategies to deal with it

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Bureau of Market Research, UNISA

Question: Can MicroFranchising

help with this?

Research indicates the answer

Is probably a resounding

YES!

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Bureau of Market Research, UNISA

Impact of Shopping Mall Developments

Prof. A.A. Ligthelm, Bureau of Market Research, UNISA

The Impact of Shopping Mall Development in Township Areas on Small Townships Retailers (Research Report No. 359)

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Bureau of Market Research, UNISA

Retail expenditure in Soweto In 2004, before the new malls

Total of all retail expenditure 25%By the most affluent 9%

By the poorest households 49%

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Bureau of Market Research, UNISA

Townships are emerging as the last retail frontiers for many national retailers,

especially supermarket chains

Will that be at the expense of small business?

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Bureau of Market Research, UNISA

• Spaza shops and hawkers employed 750,000 in 2004

• Distance related declines: 75% within 1 km reported declines; 37% of those 4 km or more reported declines

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How can CSI help?

By encouraging MicroFranchising over other business models because of the social advantages..

• More people on the economic ladder

• Building more small businesses better and faster

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How can CSI help?

• Giving a BoP entrepreneur a chance at success that he otherwise wouldn’t have

• Spreading new technology faster and cheaper as it did with Vodacom

• Building a family culture of business ownership

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How can CSI help?

• Developing a successful MicroFranchising business model is expensive and time consuming

• But history demonstrates it’s more efficient than creating 10,000 stand alone businesses!

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South Africa has necessary resources

• Bureau of Market Research – knows what BoP currently spends

• Franchise Association of Southern Africa – excellent infrastructure of skills: legal, business, technical, financial

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South Africa has necessary resources

• Country infrastructure – transportation, energy, communications, legal, government policy to support BoP

• MicroFinance Institutions to bank the MicroFranchisee

• Commercial Banks with expertise in franchising

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South Africa has necessary resources

• Supportive government policy

• Sophisticated legal and franchising structure

• Consultants and technical experts

• Mobile/smart phone system and coverage

• Superb and sophisticated banking/finance sector

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South Africa has necessary resources

Successful MicroFranchises need

• Resources to design businesses with a strong profit potential within a reasonable time frame

• Active BoP urban sector to test concepts

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South Africa already hasFranchisors who know

• local policies and regulations matter; that quality control is essential

• their market; listen to their customers; communicate with all parties constantly; provide effective promotional advertising

• how to provide products and purchasing methods consistent with the cash flow of their customers

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How small is a MicroFranchise?

• David Lehr, Mercy Corps, “MicroFranchising at the Base of the Pyramid” – businesses costing up to R 12,000 ($1500)

• Kirk Magleby, up to 3 x Gross Domestic Product – in South Africa that’s up to R 250,000 ($30,000)

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How do we get there?

Bring all the resources together

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MicroFranchising Trade Show and Convention

In Khayelitsha and Cape Town

In 2011

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MicroFranchising Trade Show and Convention

• Bring together Community Leaders, Entrepreneurs, Franchisors, Bankers, Franchisees, Microfinance Institutions, Not for Profit Organizations, Angel Investors, Exceptional Students

• Mixing, talking, planning, brainstorming

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When We All Win

• When everyone is getting better products and services at a cheaper price

• We will still struggle, but it will be a struggle up, a struggle with a purpose and blue sky potential

• That’s an empowering vision

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South Africa has all the assets it needs!

• Let’s finish with a kind of ABCD exercise – lest you are thinking this is all some kind of dream very far removed from reality and South Africa’s ability to realize it…

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The Global Competitiveness Report 2009-2010

World Rank Competitiveness Indicator for South Africa

2 out of 133 Strength of auditing and reporting standards

2 out of 133 Accessing credit

4 out of 133 Financing through local equity markets

6 out of 133 Financial market sophistication

6 out of 133 Soundness of banks

9 out of 133 Investor protection

© 2009 World Economic Forum, p. 283

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MicroFranchising –Proudly South African!

So let’s get started…

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Franchising in Frontier Marketsby Robin Miller

• Past 5–10 years – Acumen Fund, Brigham Young University & others provided important leadership

• Heavy players have noticed this search for “better and cheaper” stuff by and for the BoP

• Robin’s study funded by the John Templeton Foundation and International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank Group

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MicroFranchising

A Powerful Tool in the Fight

Against Poverty