Retail Sales Company (RSC), Retail Property Company (RPC), Franchise Alliance (Victoria & Tasmania) and John Downes & Associates have recently merged to form the Business Development Company (BDC).  

The principles Jon Sully (ex Michel’s franchisor) pictured here, Vaughn McGuinness (ex Stockland general manager), John Downes (ex Deloitte partner), Steve Nicoll, Gill Gialamatzis, Carly Mackay (property and sales experts) as well as the recent merger of Phil Blain’s Franchise Alliance, and New Zealand’s Site Retail, all now operate under the BDC banner.

“The shareholders identified a large gap in the market between a one to two person consulting firm, who are one dimensional in their service and the larger international companies that are too generic and lack the ability to implement change”, principle Jon Sully said.     

Services include business advisory and strategy development, franchise recruitment and business sales, franchise system development, asset management, property management and lease negotiation, merger and acquisition due diligence, legal support, marketing, visual designs and shop fit out.  

The key personnel have combined business experience of more than 250 years. Offices are in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and Auckland but the company is planning expansion to other states and countries.