Business Services · registry year 2024 · HQ NY
Dale Carnegie Training Franchise
A Dale Carnegie & Associates brand operating in the business services sector, franchising since 1929. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Dale Carnegie Training, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $36K – $148K
- Initial investment · Lower entry cost
- 200
- Total locations · Small network
FDD outlay schedule
Registry dale-carnegie-training Dale Carnegie Training
Dale Carnegie Training needs $36K–$148K to open - an entry cost below the typical business services franchise.
- LO $36K
- HI $148K
- UNT 200
- I19 Silent
- INV# #205/223
- UNT# #203/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: H&R Block ($32K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Dale Carnegie Training (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 Dale Carnegie Training'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 Dale Carnegie Training's investment ranks nationally
Dale Carnegie Training's listed Item 7 low of $36K 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.
Dale Carnegie Training vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$36,000 Among the lowest lower than 94% 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
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
5 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Business Services
- Subsector
- training
- Founded
- 1912
- Franchising Since
- 1929
- Headquarters
- NY
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Not Disclosed
Important Notice · Dale Carnegie Training
This Dale Carnegie Training page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Dale Carnegie Training.
Compact-network entry costs for Dale Carnegie Training
Signature read: 200 locations · Item 7 low $36K
Dale Carnegie Training, a Dale Carnegie & Associates franchise, has been franchising since 1929 - 17 years after the concept was founded in 1912 , currently with 200 total locations (200 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the business services sector, headquartered in NY. The listed total initial investment is $36K to $148K, with separate listed low and high values. The registry separately records a franchise-fee field; its summary does not reproduce every Item 7 line item.
Royalty and ad-fund rates were not captured in this registry summary. No Item 19 financial-performance field is recorded for Dale Carnegie Training. This registry does not infer a financial outcome from that absence.
The reported total is a net measure, not a complete account of individual unit changes.
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Related reading for Dale Carnegie Training: How to Evaluate a Franchise , Dale Carnegie Training 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 Dale Carnegie Training's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Dale Carnegie Training , both outside HQ state NY : nearest Item 7 lows and nearest total-location counts, not the same-sector roster below.
Similar listed investment
Nearest Item 7 lows ($36K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (200 here).
What to do with this
Dale Carnegie Training at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Dale Carnegie Training scores 11/100 (F) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $36K – $148K entry cost runs below the typical business services franchise.
- Ranks #205 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- H&R Block sits at a comparable investment level ($32K) 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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