Franchising in the Netherlands

Last Wednesday we had a guest lecturer who was a financial expert on franchising. I asked him several questions about franchising in the Netherlands. The two questions I wanted answered most was “How much of retail in the Netherlands is a franchise?” and “What are the growth expectations for franchising in the Netherlands?”. In one of my first articles I wrote that in a few decades 50% of retail would be a franchise. But since I have not yet found an answer to my first questions that will probably not be applicable to the Netherlands. Since no one has done any research to how much of retail is actually a franchise, it has been done for different branches but not for retail in its entirety. As for the questions about growth al that the guest lecturer could say was that it has been steady for the past 5 years, but no percentage of growth.