Retail · registry year 2024 · HQ CO
Sola Salon Studios Franchise
A WellBiz Brands brand operating in the retail sector, franchising since 2005. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Sola Salon Studios, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $1.9M – $4.5M
- Initial investment · Higher entry cost
- 5.5%
- Royalty rate · Mid-range royalty
- 700
- Total locations · Mid-size network
- $1.2M
- Avg unit revenue · Mid-range unit revenue
FDD outlay schedule
Registry sola-salon-studios Sola Salon Studios
Sola Salon Studios needs $1.9M–$4.5M to open and charges a 5.5% royalty - an entry cost above the typical retail franchise.
- LO $1.9M
- HI $4.5M
- FEE $55K
- ROY 5.5%
- UNT 700
- I19 Disclosed
- INV# #14/223
- UNT# #122/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: Ace Hardware ($650K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Sola Salon Studios (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 Sola Salon Studios's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum 5.7% net unit growth (YoY) 84/100 · B
- 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 Sola Salon Studios's investment ranks nationally
Sola Salon Studios's listed Item 7 low of $1.9M 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.
Sola Salon Studios vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$1,900,000 Higher than most higher 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
- Franchise Fee
- $55K
Revenue Data (Item 19)
- Average Revenue
- $1.2M
- 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
- beauty
- Founded
- 2004
- Franchising Since
- 2005
- Headquarters
- CO
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Disclosed
Important Notice · Sola Salon Studios
This Sola Salon Studios page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Sola Salon Studios.
Higher-band investment fields for Sola Salon Studios
Signature read: 700 locations · Item 7 low $1.9M
Sola Salon Studios, a WellBiz Brands franchise, has been franchising since 2005 - 1 years after the concept was founded in 2004 , currently with 700 total locations (700 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the retail sector, headquartered in CO. This editorial registry lists a total initial investment from $1.9M to $4.5M, with separate listed low and high values. A franchise-fee field of $55K is recorded separately, while the registry summary does not reproduce the full Item 7 schedule.
The brand charges 5.5% of gross sales in ongoing royalties. Sola Salon Studios has an Item 19 financial-performance field in this registry, a voluntary disclosure under the FTC Franchise Rule. The reported average gross revenue per location is $1.2M; multiplying the reported average by the listed royalty rate gives $66K as an arithmetic illustration only. Revenue is distinct from profit, and the registry does not provide a complete operating-cost record.
Sola Salon Studios's network is expanding: unit count grew at a 5.7% net rate over the past year (60 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 Sola Salon Studios: Understanding FDDs , Sola Salon Studios 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 Sola Salon Studios's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for Sola Salon Studios , 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 ($1.9M here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (700 here).
What to do with this
Sola Salon Studios at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- Sola Salon Studios scores 92/100 (A) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $1.9M – $4.5M entry cost runs above the typical retail franchise.
- Ranks #14 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- Ace Hardware sits at a comparable investment level ($650K) 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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