Easyhome announces first of four franchise winners
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| Shane Birch and wife Karri |
In October, 2009, easyhome launched the “Be A Contender” program to provide the industry’s top operators a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to win a franchise financing package.
Candidates submitted complete business plans and a rigorous screening process narrowed the field to some of the best operators in the U.S.
Birch started his career with Rent-A-Center in early 1999 as an account manager and quickly moved up the corporate ladder to store manager.
In early 2004 Birch started with Aarons as a store manager and worked until selected as a contender winner earlier this year. Birch’s career spans over 10 years in the RTO industry and he has demonstrated his ability to consistently dominate his competition. He has extensive knowledge and experience in the industry and has built several extremely successful and profitable stores throughout his years in RTO.
Birch will open his franchise store in Oklahoma in 2010.
- Rent-A-Center top 50 corporate store
- Aarons General Manager of top 5 all-star store 2006
- Aarons General Manager of the #4 corporate double diamond store in 2007 and 2008
- Aarons General Manager of the #1 corporate double diamond store in 2009
- Aarons Chairman Circle member Top Performer in 2006-2009
- Aarons Top proļ¬ ting Mid-America divisional store 2007-2009
Round 2 begins Fall 2010.