Retail · registry year 2024 · HQ AZ
Massage Envy Franchise
A Roark Capital Group brand operating in the retail sector, franchising since 2003. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Massage Envy, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $520K – $1.1M
- Initial investment · Higher entry cost
- 6.0%
- Royalty rate · Above-average royalty
- 1,100
- Total locations · Mid-size network
- $1.0M
- Avg unit revenue · Mid-range unit revenue
FDD outlay schedule
Registry massage-envy Massage Envy
Massage Envy needs $520K–$1.1M to open and charges a 6.0% royalty - an entry cost above the typical retail franchise.
- LO $520K
- HI $1.1M
- FEE $45K
- ROY 6.0%
- UNT 1,100
- I19 Disclosed
- INV# #53/223
- UNT# #90/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: Hand & Stone Massage ($534K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Massage Envy (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 Massage Envy's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum 0.9% net unit growth (YoY) 31/100 · F
- Financial disclosure Item 19 disclosed 100/100 · A
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 Massage Envy's investment ranks nationally
Massage Envy's listed Item 7 low of $520K 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.
Massage Envy vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$520,000 Higher than most higher than 76% 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
- $45K
- Ad Fund Rate
- 2.0%
Revenue Data (Item 19)
- Average Revenue
- $1.0M
- gross revenue per location
* Revenue figures are gross revenue (sales), not profit. This registry does not report operating costs or profit.
Network Size & Growth
Net Growth Rate
Year-over-year unit change
30 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Retail
- Subsector
- massage
- Founded
- 2002
- Franchising Since
- 2003
- Headquarters
- AZ
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Disclosed
Important Notice · Massage Envy
This Massage Envy page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Massage Envy.
Higher-band investment fields for Massage Envy
Signature read: 1,100 locations · Item 7 low $520K
Massage Envy, a Roark Capital Group franchise, has been franchising since 2003 - 1 years after the concept was founded in 2002 , currently with 1,100 total locations (1,100 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the retail sector, headquartered in AZ. The registry records a total initial investment between $520K and $1.1M, recorded as a low-to-high range in the registry. The registry records a separate franchise-fee field of $45K and does not list every Item 7 component in this summary.
Royalty payments here are set at 6.0% of gross sales with a separate 2.0% national advertising-fund field; the two listed percentages total 8.0%. The registry records an Item 19 field for Massage Envy. Financial-performance disclosure in Item 19 is voluntary under the FTC Franchise Rule. The reported average gross revenue per location is $1.0M; applying the listed royalty rate to that reported average yields $60K as a simple arithmetic illustration, not a cost or profit estimate. Revenue is distinct from profit, and the registry does not provide a complete operating-cost record.
Massage Envy's network is expanding: unit count grew at a 0.9% net rate over the past year (40 openings, 30 closures). The count describes the latest reported period only; the underlying Item 20 tables provide the fuller disclosure context.
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Related reading for Massage Envy: Understanding FDDs , Massage Envy lists Item 19 revenue here, how Item 19 fits the 23-item FDD.
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 Massage Envy's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Massage Envy , both outside HQ state AZ : nearest Item 7 lows and nearest total-location counts, not the same-sector roster below.
Similar listed investment
Nearest Item 7 lows ($520K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (1,100 here).
What to do with this
Massage Envy at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Massage Envy scores 66/100 (D) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $520K – $1.1M entry cost runs above the typical retail franchise.
- Ranks #53 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- Hand & Stone Massage sits at a comparable investment level ($534K) in the same sector. Compare
Editorial comparison registry, not a source-linked FDD record. Verify the current FDD before relying on any figure.
Read our methodology - what this registry can and cannot establish.
Source: PlainFranchise editorial registry Record-level FDD source link and retrieval date pending
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