Partnering with FS Brands: The Story

The essence of successful partnership is alignment and communication. These two requirements form the essential thinking around partnership at, and with, FS Brands.

FS Brands excels at partnership with successful businesses that seek partnership with a company anchored to mission and values, clear about its goals, and committed to growth at the franchisee, employee and corporate levels.

The company has been both the recipient of a successful model of partnership through its relationship with FirstService Corporation and its acquisition, in 1989, of College Pro Painters and the initiator of this model, to great success, in its partnerships with CertaPro Painters, Paul Davis Restoration, California Closets, BrandPoint Services, Pillar To Post Home Inspection, Floor Coverings International, Handyman Connection and TLS.

For FS Brands, partnership is based on a mutual understanding of where a potential partner has come from, where they are now, and where they truly want to go in the future. Opportunity is only realizable if there are real discussions around real goals, and real measurement around results. FS Brands can add value to a partnership in areas such as skill development, brand development and data management, and it can bring the knowledge and best practices of its partner companies’ experience only after there is a fundamental agreement around roles, goals and milestones.

The growth of a business with over US$1billion in system wide revenues has been achieved by FS Brands’ ability to deliver on its promise by being a real partner. That is why FS Brands does not acquire companies. It partners with them and then, together, build sustainable brands and recurring value to all the stakeholders. This concept of partnership is not a passive idea. It is a living and breathing exercise in creating success based on mutuality, leadership and values alignment.