Automotive · registry year 2024 · HQ NC
Meineke Car Care Franchise
A Driven Brands brand operating in the automotive sector, franchising since 1972. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Meineke Car Care, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $151K – $453K
- Initial investment · Mid-range entry cost
- 6.0%
- Royalty rate · Above-average royalty
- 750
- Total locations · Mid-size network
FDD outlay schedule
Registry meineke-car-care Meineke Car Care
Meineke Car Care needs $151K–$453K to open and charges a 6.0% royalty - an entry cost below the typical automotive franchise.
- LO $151K
- HI $453K
- FEE $25K
- ROY 6.0%
- UNT 750
- I19 Silent
- INV# #128/223
- UNT# #115/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: Midas ($153K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Meineke Car Care (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 Meineke Car Care'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 Meineke Car Care's investment ranks nationally
Meineke Car Care's listed Item 7 low of $151K 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.
Meineke Car Care vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$151,000 Lower than most lower than 58% 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
- $25K
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
20 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Automotive
- Subsector
- repair
- Founded
- 1972
- Franchising Since
- 1972
- Headquarters
- NC
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Not Disclosed
Important Notice · Meineke Car Care
This Meineke Car Care page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Meineke Car Care.
What the Meineke Car Care FDD reveals
Signature read: 750 locations · Item 7 low $151K
Meineke Car Care, a Driven Brands franchise, has been franchising since 1972 , currently with 750 total locations (750 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the automotive sector, headquartered in NC. This editorial registry lists a total initial investment from $151K to $453K, with separate listed low and high values. The registry separately records a franchise-fee field of $25K; its summary does not reproduce every Item 7 line item.
Ongoing royalties run 6.0% of gross sales. Meineke Car Care has no Item 19 financial-performance field in this registry; the FTC Franchise Rule does not require that disclosure.
The reported total is a net measure, not a complete account of individual unit changes.
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Related reading for Meineke Car Care: How to Evaluate a Franchise , Meineke Car Care 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 Meineke Car Care's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Meineke Car Care , both outside HQ state NC : nearest Item 7 lows and nearest total-location counts, not the same-sector roster below.
Similar listed investment
Nearest Item 7 lows ($151K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (750 here).
What to do with this
Meineke Car Care at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Meineke Car Care scores 11/100 (F) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $151K – $453K entry cost runs below the typical automotive franchise.
- Ranks #128 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- Midas sits at a comparable investment level ($153K) 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.
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