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    Franchise Brands is considering a move from junior market AIM to the main market of the London Stock Exchange following the appointment of a new CEO. The Macclesfield-based £300m company, which has been listed on AIM since 2016, said today that given the “scale and growth ambitions” of the company, it was taking the first [...]

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