Executive Property Maintenance Services Pty. Ltd. was originally started by Stephen and Sherry Salvesani in 1986 just with the idea of gaining some extra money. At that time Stephen was a full time gardener, who had originally done 10 years employment between two turf farms in the Lockyer Valley. Stephen had to leave the turf job, due to drought conditions and the shortage of water, which had caused a cut back in working hours. Sherry had approximately five years on the turf farm, with Stephen and for the same reasons had to find alternate employment in a factory at Gatton.

From Stephens full time gardening job, he gained a few extra gardening and mowing jobs, as people driving past and friends of the owners could see the quality of the work carried out. These extra jobs were carried out on week ends or after normal working hours, by Stephen and Sherry.

Each new job gained, seemed to gain another job, and the business just kept on growing. Sherry left her employment to take over Stephens gardening job and Stephen hired another man to help him with the growing work load.

Over the last fifteen years the business has grown to a level where the majority of Stephen and Sherry's time is involved in managing the business rather than doing the physical work. With growth a number of problems arose including:

So the idea of Franchising came to mind.

With Franchising a lot of the problems listed in i) to v) above should be minimised, as each Franchisee would have only his best interests in mind and no work would have to be turned away. Any new work would be allotted to a Franchisee who has the capacity to handle the increased work load. And for the Franchisee the harder he/she worked and the better the quality of the work, the results could only be better for themselves.