{"id":4723,"date":"2011-01-13T17:19:45","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T17:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=4723"},"modified":"2011-01-13T17:19:45","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T17:19:45","slug":"bsm-to-go-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=4723","title":{"rendered":"BSM To Go Bust?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is an old, old, OLD story. BSM is now owned by the same company<\/a> which owns the AA. This has been the case since early 2011.<\/p>\n

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I am beginning to get hits on this search term, or something similar. I’ve also heard rumours.<\/p>\n

If it’s BSM franchisees searching, I don’t think you have much to worry about. BSM is not going to disappear just like that – even if the current owners are in a poor financial state, a business that <\/strong>size, in this <\/strong>industry, with that <\/strong>name is not just going to vanish!<\/p>\n

I would be surprised if many companies are in absolutely buoyant financial bliss at the moment, so the fact that rumours are circulating is not really a big deal. If it went bellyup, somone would buy it in an instant.<\/p>\n

BSMs problems now are the same problems it has always had. It’s just that in a recession, where people are cutting costs and perhaps seeing a bit of a downturn in business, a company like BSM – which relies on the fairly hefty franchise fees it charges – it has nowhere to else to go. It can’t put franchise fees up any more without losing a lot of people, and like most businesses it has been typically greedy and gobbled up any profit it made on overheads. I guess that’s why offices have been shut down progressively.<\/p>\n

I fully expect a big change in their structure soon, but like I say it won’t mean that much for ADIs. PDIs, though, might not fare so well…<\/p>\n

Of course, there is every possibility that some of those searching are simply voyeurs trying to see if there’s any truth to these rumours. Time will tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is an old, old, OLD story. BSM is now owned by the same company which owns the AA. This has been the case since early 2011. I am beginning to get hits on this search term, or something similar. I’ve also heard rumours. If it’s BSM franchisees searching, I don’t think you have much […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}