SUPPLEMENTARY EDUCATION

IMS Learning Resources Pvt Ltd

Management guru

IMS Learning Resources Pvt Ltd (IMS) is leader in management entrance training with over 34 years of experience. Currently, IMS to its credit, has over 100 centres, of which 60 per cent are franchise outlets. The company aims to mentor, motivate and guide students by enabling them to make right career decision.

The IMS partnership concept provides individuals with the complete know how to build and operate a successful test preparation training centre. A franchisee needs to have more than three years of experience and must be a post graduate, preferably an MBA/MS from a good institute.

An investment between Rs 10 and 30 lakh and 800-2,000 sq.ft is required to become an IMS franchisee. Commenting on company's growth strategy about expansion, Devesh Mathur, Head Partner Operations, IMS Learning Resources Pvt. Ltd, says: “A yearly research is done to find out locations for expansion. Some of the locations across the country are Ahmedabad, Baroda, Indore, Jaipur, Kanpur, Aurangabad, Meerut and Rohtak. Besides, there are multiple opport-unities in other tier-II and III cities.”

Laetus Education

Honing linguistic skills

AFTER conducting nine years of extensive research in rural and urban schools, Bengaluru based - Laetus Education Private Limited launched several products and services that offer a comprehensive set of tools to enhance educational goals of both institutes and students. Agreement with Carnegie Speech Company (Subsidiary of Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA), has strengthened the programmes of Laetus Education with a software to train students in pronunciation, communicative English grammar and fluency.

On highlighting the company's vision, Kiran Kumar K, CEO, Laetus Education Private Limited, says: “Laetus Education will be one of the world's largest supplementary education service provider and a listed company in the next five years.” Currently, the company has two company-owned centres and eight franchise centres. Laetus education plans to have its presence in all states in India and five outside India operations in the next six months. A franchisee can either opt for brand's master franchise or a unit franchise. For the same, a capital investment ranges between Rs 5 lakh and Rs 50 lakh and 800 -1,200 sq.ft of carpet area.

IGuruCool

Leaders in shaping careers

INTEGRATED Solutions was started as an IT company by Saurabh Jha and Yugeshwar Choubey in May, 2007. Seeing the unorganised education sector and a lucrative opportunity, IGuruCool was started in December, 2009. The company’s USP lies in treating learning as fun. The company initiated its franchise operations in February, 2011 and today it boasts of 22 outlets, two company-owned and 20 franchise centres. With regard to franchisee selection, the company prefers MBA graduate from good B-schools and must be in the similar business for at least five years. Talking about spreading its brand's reach, Anurag Kanishk Director-HR and Associate CEO, IGuruCool, says: “We wish to open 5,500 franchises worldwide with special emphasis on Bengaluru, Mumbai, Delhi and Hyderabad. As far as brand promotion is concerned, the company believes in running aggressive Internet campaigns and one-to-one advertising through mailers, personalised messages and newspaper insertion.

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