The ever growing process of internationalisation increases interest in entering and developing of enterprises' activities in foreign markets also by Polish trade and service chains operating in the franchising formula. The scale of this phenomenon is yet not large. Their units outside Poland have put 12% of all the Polish systems. The foreign expansion in non-capital form concerns, first of all, trade (retail) systems, and, to a small degree, service ones. Polish systems are now in twenty European countries, and one system operates in South America. A further growth of internationalisation and strengthening of Polish systems is conditioned, inter alia, by strengthening their position in the domestic market, improvement of Polish products to be competitive, improvement of the image of Polish chains as well as by raising standards of operation and skills of the managerial staff.