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Julianne Liebeck and Carl Watkins have spent much of the past 18 months in a lawyer’s office.
They’ve been putting the franchise contract together for Mod’s Hair, the Paris-based company that has about 400 salons worldwide.
Mr Watkins, the 1991 New Zealand hairdresser of the year, jokes they could have employed a lawyer full-time and it would probably have been cheaper.
It wasn’t difficult, says Ms Liebeck, just time-consuming.
There were so many things to think about because the contract had to cover everything from the amount of training hours required to how to keep up Mod’s Hair standards.
The two had the added difficulty of some documents being in French and having to get them translated into English.
“It’s been a massive process. It’s taken a year and a half. Learning about contracts is all we have done this year. But it’s done now and that’s it.”
The pair, who already own four Mod’s Hair salons, three in Christchurch and one in Auckland, own the franchise rights for New Zealand and Australia.
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