Retail · registry year 2024 · HQ NY
Minuteman Press Franchise
A Minuteman Press Intl brand operating in the retail sector, franchising since 1975. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Minuteman Press, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $74K – $231K
- Initial investment · Lower entry cost
- 6.0%
- Royalty rate · Above-average royalty
- 1,000
- Total locations · Mid-size network
- $700K
- Avg unit revenue · Below-average unit revenue
FDD outlay schedule
Registry minuteman-press Minuteman Press
Minuteman Press needs $74K–$231K to open and charges a 6.0% royalty - an entry cost below the typical retail franchise.
- LO $74K
- HI $231K
- FEE $48K
- ROY 6.0%
- UNT 1,000
- I19 Disclosed
- INV# #177/223
- UNT# #95/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: GNC ($55K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Minuteman Press (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 Minuteman Press's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum 1.0% net unit growth (YoY) 32/100 · 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 Minuteman Press's investment ranks nationally
Minuteman Press's listed Item 7 low of $74K 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.
Minuteman Press vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$74,000 Among the lowest lower than 80% 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
- $48K
Revenue Data (Item 19)
- Average Revenue
- $700K
- 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
20 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Retail
- Subsector
- printing
- Founded
- 1973
- Franchising Since
- 1975
- Headquarters
- NY
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Disclosed
Important Notice · Minuteman Press
This Minuteman Press page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Minuteman Press.
Lower-band investment fields for Minuteman Press
Signature read: 1,000 locations · Item 7 low $74K
Minuteman Press, a Minuteman Press Intl franchise, has been franchising since 1975 - 2 years after the concept was founded in 1973 , currently with 1,000 total locations (1,000 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the retail sector, headquartered in NY. The registry records a total initial investment between $74K and $231K, using the registry's listed low and high fields. The registry separately records a franchise-fee field of $48K; its summary does not reproduce every Item 7 line item.
Ongoing royalties run 6.0% of gross sales. Minuteman Press has a recorded Item 19 financial-performance field; Item 19 disclosure is voluntary under the FTC Franchise Rule. The reported average gross revenue per location is $700K; the listed royalty rate multiplied by the reported average equals $42K, which is not a total-cost or profit calculation. Revenue is distinct from profit, and the registry does not provide a complete operating-cost record.
Network momentum is currently positive: Minuteman Press added units at a 1.0% net rate year-over-year (30 openings, 20 closures). The registry records both the reported percentage and the count of openings and closures when those fields are available.
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Related reading for Minuteman Press: Understanding FDDs , Minuteman Press 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 Minuteman Press's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Minuteman Press , 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 ($74K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (1,000 here).
What to do with this
Minuteman Press at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Minuteman Press scores 66/100 (D) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $74K – $231K entry cost runs below the typical retail franchise.
- Ranks #177 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- GNC sits at a comparable investment level ($55K) 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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