Franchise Site - Modern Design Needed

The site is relatively new and lists franchise opportunities, the url is http://www.franchiseroute.co.uk/

FranchiseRoute

Tagline:
To be decided

Desired Style:
Clean and proffesional

Accepted File Formats:
Standard Web Formats (.jpg, .gif or .png); Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff)

Description

The site has to appeal to the companies with franchises as one objective is to get them to list their franchise on our site, it also needs to entice people looking for a Franchise opportunity to sign up and use it.

So were looking for a design for the home page that we can adapt and use as a template for the rest of the site, we can change what is displayed there but for this exercise please work with what is shown at the moment.

The site url is http://www.franchiseroute.co.uk/

We like white backgrounds for text, but feel free to work with what is there and suggest anything that will give the right uncluttered look.

We have no real preference on colours, there are other sites out there, do a search for franchise opportunities, none appear to be outstanding design wise, we would like our site to really stand out from them.