{"id":17279,"date":"2024-10-08T23:23:17","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T14:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.assentia-hd.com\/en\/?p=17279"},"modified":"2025-11-09T12:58:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T03:58:44","slug":"the-uk-became-the-28th-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.assentia-hd.com\/en\/2024\/10\/08\/the-uk-became-the-28th-country\/","title":{"rendered":"The UK became the 28th country."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assentia Holdings&#8217; international franchise business, which began in 2010, started with Singapore as its first country and the United Kingdom as its 28th country.<\/p>\n<p><img data-attachment-id=\"17280\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.assentia-hd.com\/en\/2024\/10\/08\/the-uk-became-the-28th-country\/28country2024\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.assentia-hd.com\/en\/files\/2025\/11\/28country2024.jpg?fit=1040%2C720&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1040,720\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"28country2024\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.assentia-hd.com\/en\/files\/2025\/11\/28country2024.jpg?fit=300%2C208&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.assentia-hd.com\/en\/files\/2025\/11\/28country2024.jpg?fit=700%2C485&amp;ssl=1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17280\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.assentia-hd.com\/en\/files\/2025\/11\/28country2024.jpg?resize=700%2C485&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.assentia-hd.com\/en\/files\/2025\/11\/28country2024.jpg?w=1040&amp;ssl=1 1040w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.assentia-hd.com\/en\/files\/2025\/11\/28country2024.jpg?resize=300%2C208&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.assentia-hd.com\/en\/files\/2025\/11\/28country2024.jpg?resize=1024%2C709&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.assentia-hd.com\/en\/files\/2025\/11\/28country2024.jpg?resize=768%2C532&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.assentia-hd.com\/en\/files\/2025\/11\/28country2024.jpg?resize=578%2C400&amp;ssl=1 578w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Assentia Holdings&#8217; international franchises are primarily food businesses, with restaurants and cake shops accounting for 70% of the total, but we are expanding into beauty, education, and agricultural support.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assentia Holdings&#8217; international franchise business, which began in 2010, started with Singapore as its first country and the United Kingdom as its 28th country. Assentia Holdings&#8217; international franchises are primarily food businesses, with restaurants and cake shops accounting for 70% of the total, but we are expanding into beauty, education, and agricultural support. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Yf3D-4uH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1259,"url":"https:\/\/www.assentia-hd.com\/en\/2019\/09\/07\/tokyo-international-conference-on-african-development\/","url_meta":{"origin":17279,"position":0},"title":"Tokyo International Conference on African Development","author":"nobu","date":"2019\u5e749\u67087\u65e5","format":false,"excerpt":"28th to 30th AUG 2019 We participated in TICAD7. 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