Market Trends

Technology has revolutionized the workplace. As a result, The UPS Store franchises are an integral and valued necessity in today's marketplace.

Not only can people do business around the world, but they can do it from their own home office, or anywhere for that matter. The facts speak to the potential of this market.

• 95% of the one million enterprises in Canada are small businesses.¹
• 98% of larger businesses have less than 100 employees.¹
• There are approximately 2.4 million self employed people in Canada.²
• By the end of this decade, one in five Canadians will most likely be his/her own boss.³

Sources: 1 BMO Financial Group 2 Industry Canada 3 CIBC Report, quoted in Canadian Small Business - A Growing Force, Benjamin Tal, September 2003

Time is the new commodity

The rise of digital technology, coupled with the growing trend towards small and home office business models, brings the challenge of doing business with the same speed and efficiency that a larger office environment would offer. The cost to the SOHO business person in not having the equivalent resources of a larger office environment, in business equipment and staffing, is their time.

Canadian small and medium enterprises (SMEs) spend up to 100 per cent more time than they realize completing various simple business processes such as courier processing. The findings, from a research study by UPS Canada, also revealed that 74 per cent of SMEs surveyed would consider changing their process if it meant that it optimized person-hours for use in revenue and value-generating activities.

The UPS Store offers a necessary alternative - the resources of a larger office environment without the costly overhead that a full shipping department or large expensive printing equipment would incur. The UPS Store is a viable outsourcing alternative to buy back that valuable commodity of time.

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Take the First Step

If you are ready to take the next step, and harness the power of the UPS brand, then we are ready for you. To be considered for The UPS Store franchise, simply complete the confidential online registration.  Following registration you will receive an email containing your user name and password along with instructions on the next steps in the application process.