Gujarat hosted ‘Business Opportunity Aapke Ghar’ (BOAG) from June 11 to June 14 2010. Franchise India Holdings Ltd and ‘RE/MAX’ (World’s largest real estate group) with the support of Indian Franchise Association organised the show. One day workshop was organised in three different cities of Gujarat. In Surat on (11 June), Vadodra (12 June) and the event concluded at Rajkot (14 June). As far as the response to BOAG Gujarat is concerned approximately 1500 to 2,000 aspiring entrepreneurs visited the show combining all three cities. The BOAG event aims to target 55 cities across India in 2010 with a vision to create more than one lakh entrepreneurs. Till now more than 10, 000 investors have benefited and grown professionally with BOAG and the numbers are still rising.

Sachin Marya, CEO, Franchise India commented, “With due course of time and after so many successful expos and conferences across the country ‘BOAG’ has proved itself as India’s only and biggest business opportunity platform wherein individuals who aspire to become entrepreneurs or an entrepreneur who contemplate to expand the business are highly benefited, however it is just a beginning, BOAG has a long way ahead.”

The prominent brands that made their presence felt and provided business opportunity at BOAG Gujarat includes Eurokids, RE/MAX, Re- Feel/Club Laptop, Siyarams Silks Ltd, Aptech, Brainworks Learning Systems Pvt Ltd, Promise, Zee Kids, ICICI Securities, IT Source and Jetking.

Presenting real estate as a profitable business opportunity especially in Gujarat Aashil Patel, Regional Director, RE/MAX Gujarat said, “RE/MAX’s foray into India endeavors to organise the unorganised real estate broking scenario and build trust and transparency into the system. The BOAG platform gives us a chance to interact with entrepreneurs from small cities of Surat, Baroda and Rajkot with economic potential and encourage them to be a part of the world’s largest and most successful real estate franchise network. With 12 RE/MAX Broker Offices in Gujarat including two each in the cities of Surat and Baroda, we invite all entrepreneurs to be a part of our growing real estate franchise network.”