Pet Services · registry year 2024 · HQ CO
Bark Busters Franchise
A Bark Busters Holdings brand operating in the pet services sector, franchising since 1994. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Bark Busters, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $75K – $120K
- Initial investment · Lower entry cost
- 10.0%
- Royalty rate · Above-average royalty
- 200
- Total locations · Small network
FDD outlay schedule
Registry bark-busters Bark Busters
Bark Busters needs $75K–$120K to open and charges a 10.0% royalty - an entry cost below the typical pet services franchise.
- LO $75K
- HI $120K
- FEE $30K
- ROY 10.0%
- UNT 200
- I19 Silent
- INV# #174/223
- UNT# #200/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: Fetch! Pet Care ($50K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Bark Busters (registry year 2024). Listed lows only - not a profit, cost-of-living, or suitability claim. Verify the current FDD before relying on these figures. How we place brands →
Franchise Opportunity Health Score
How healthy and transparent Bark Busters's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum 0.0% net unit growth (YoY) 21/100 · F
- Financial disclosure Item 19 not disclosed 0/100 · F
Benchmarked against the 223-brand tracked corpus (p10-p90 range per dimension); a higher score means a growing unit count and a disclosed Item 19. See how we place brands.
Where Bark Busters's investment ranks nationally
Bark Busters's listed Item 7 low of $75K against every one of the 218 tracked franchise brands with a disclosed initial investment. Listed figures only, verify in the current FDD before relying on them.
Bark Busters vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$75,000 Among the lowest lower than 79% of 218 franchise brands
Franchise brands, banded by listed Item 7 low
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Source PlainFranchise editorial comparison registry · 2024-12-31
Investment Overview
- Franchise Fee
- $30K
- Ad Fund Rate
- 2.0%
Revenue Data (Item 19)
Item 19 Not Disclosed
This franchisor did not provide financial performance data in their FDD. This is common, disclosure is optional.
Network Size & Growth
Net Growth Rate
Year-over-year unit change
10 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Pet Services
- Subsector
- training
- Founded
- 1989
- Franchising Since
- 1994
- Headquarters
- CO
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Not Disclosed
Important Notice · Bark Busters
This Bark Busters page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Bark Busters.
Compact-network entry costs for Bark Busters
Signature read: 200 locations · Item 7 low $75K
Bark Busters, a Bark Busters Holdings franchise, has been franchising since 1994 - 5 years after the concept was founded in 1989 , currently with 200 total locations (200 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the pet services sector, headquartered in CO. The registry records a total initial investment between $75K and $120K, with separate listed low and high values. The registry records a separate franchise-fee field of $30K and does not list every Item 7 component in this summary.
The brand charges 10.0% of gross sales in ongoing royalties, plus a 2.0% national ad-fund field; the listed percentages sum to 12.0%. Bark Busters has no Item 19 financial-performance field in this registry; the FTC Franchise Rule does not require that disclosure.
A flat net count is reported here without a causal interpretation in the registry.
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Related reading for Bark Busters: How to Evaluate a Franchise , Bark Busters has no Item 19 in this registry, diligence without a financial performance representation.
Snapshot uses the registry's listed Item 7 initial-investment low and Item 20 location-count fields. It is a descriptive comparison, not a ranking or investment recommendation.
How Bark Busters's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Bark Busters , both outside HQ state CO : nearest Item 7 lows and nearest total-location counts, not the same-sector roster below.
Similar listed investment
Nearest Item 7 lows ($75K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (200 here).
What to do with this
Bark Busters at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Bark Busters scores 11/100 (F) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $75K – $120K entry cost runs below the typical pet services franchise.
- Ranks #174 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- Fetch! Pet Care sits at a comparable investment level ($50K) in the same sector. Compare
Editorial comparison registry, not a source-linked FDD record. Verify the current FDD before relying on any figure.
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