Verified — real FDD extraction
SBA-eligible · directory code S2628 since 2018
Corporate Cleaning Group
Other · independent · est. —
Corporate Cleaning Group is a commercial cleaning franchise serving offices, schools, churches, and medical facilities. Franchisees run a business-to-business janitorial operation, selling recurring cleaning contracts and managing cleaning crews.
Corporate Cleaning Group net unit count grew +35.3% from 2023–2025 per its FDD Item 20.
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A franchise is a business where you (the franchisee) pay a company (the franchisor) for the right to open and run a location using their brand and system — think a local Anytime Fitness or Taco John's owned by a small-business owner, not the corporation.
Before you can buy in, U.S. law requires the franchisor to give you a Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD) — a long legal filing covering its fees, finances, and history. The numbers on this page come straight from that document:
- Franchise fee — the one-time cost to buy in.
- Royalty — the ongoing cut of your sales you pay the franchisor.
- Item 20 — how many locations opened and closed, the basis for our verdict (from Proven & strong down to Distressed — or Too new to judge).
The verdict
Proven & strong
Distress
Enough units and history to judge, and the record is good: growing or stable units with clean exits by the standards of its disclosed record. The main concern in the record: too many owners are failing outright rather than selling.
Exit rate · latest year
4.4%
fiscal 2025, per Item 20
Cost to open
$97K–$147K
Item 7 total investment range
SBA loan defaults
Too few resolved
13 loans exist; too few resolved to rate
Behind the verdict
the record, factor by factor · Item 20
3-yr trend · Item 20 Table 1
terminations + ceased-ops vs. all exits · Table 3
transfers vs. base · Table 3
actual vs. projected openings · Table 5
Item 19 disclosure + completeness
Systemwide units
2023–2025
Survival record
FDD Item 20 · outlet status by year
In fiscal 2025, 2 of 45 franchised outlets left the system — a 4.4% annualized exit rate. Not every exit is a failure — but this is the measurable floor.
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| Status (FTC) | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Outlets at start | 23 | 34 | 47 |
| Opened | 12 | 18 | 1 |
| Transfers | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Terminations | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| Non-renewals | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Reacquired by franchisor | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ceased — other reasons | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Outlets at end | 34 | 47 | 46 |
| Net change | +11 | +13 | -1 |
The lender's view
SBA 7(a)/504 loan performance · FY1991–present
Banks have made 13 SBA-backed loans to Corporate Cleaning Group franchisees since 2018. Most are still open, so there is not yet a resolved cohort large enough to rate.
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6 resolved · too thin to rate
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avg. charged-off $ ÷ approved $
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default rate × loss severity
$217,390
what recent franchisees borrowed
50 mo
approval → charge-off, defaulted loans
8 vs 3
distinct banks still lending
Charge-off rate by loan approval year (%)
SOURCE: SBA 7(a)/504 FOIA LOAN DATA (DATA.SBA.GOV), FY1991–PRESENT · MATCHED TO CORPORATE CLEANING GROUP BY FRANCHISE NAME · RESOLVED = CHARGED-OFF + PAID-IN-FULL
What it costs — and what it drags
FDD Items 5–7 · fees, investment, royalty
Buying in means a $60K franchise fee (Item 5) and a total investment of $97K–$147K (Item 7). The franchisor publishes an earnings claim (Item 19) — read its methodology closely.
To open (Item 7)
$97K–$147K
all-in investment range
Franchise fee (Item 5)
$60K
upfront, one-time
Royalty (Item 6)
5.5%
of sales, ongoing
Your figure — cross-check against this brand's Item 19 and current-owner validation.
Royalty you'd pay / yr
$55K
5.5% of sales, before profit
Over a 10-yr term
$550K
royalties alone, excl. ad fund
This is not profit. It's the only money the FDD actually pins down — what you put in, and the royalty you owe on every dollar of sales. Your real take-home depends on labor, rent, food cost, and ramp-to-breakeven, none of which any FDD discloses.
Build a real pro-forma for Corporate Cleaning Group with an independent CPALabor record
US Dept. of Labor enforcement · franchisee-level · FY2005–present
Federal investigators have concluded 2 wage cases against operators of this system, recovering $27K in back wages for 44 workers. These cases name franchisee-owned locations, not the franchisor itself.
Concluded cases
2
Back wages owed
$27K
Employees affected
44
Since 2020
0
Read this carefully. The employers in these cases are individual Corporate Cleaning Group franchisees — separately owned businesses operating under the brand name — not Corporate Cleaning Group itself. The franchisor is not the respondent and in most cases is not a party. What the record shows is how this system's operators run their payrolls, which is worth knowing before you become one of them. Counts rise with system size and with age: a 20-year-old, 10,000-unit system will out-count a young one regardless of conduct. Source: DOL Wage and Hour Division concluded compliance actions, FY2005–present, most recent finding 2011.
Modeled risk
FDD Risk Score · modeled from the public record
The public record puts this brand toward the riskier end of the systems we score — but the evidence is thin, so treat it as a range, not a number.
Risk percentile (range)
69–93 / 100
Directional
Modeled SBA charge-off
17.6%
Observed SBA charge-off
16.7%
Top drivers: System size (log units) (raises) · Investment ceiling (log) (raises) · Item 3 litigation (log) (raises) · Net unit growth (raises). Thin loan history — treat this as a range, not a number. A linear scorecard built from this brand's own disclosure figures plus the federal loan record behind its franchisees; full spec and cross-validated accuracy on the methodology page. A score is context, not a verdict.
Distress signals
news-sourced · bankruptcies, closures, lawsuits
No recent closures, bankruptcies, or major lawsuits found in the news for Corporate Cleaning Group. That's a good sign — but it reflects news coverage, not a guarantee.
A broker is paid by the franchisor to place you. An independent CPA is paid by you — and the job is pressure-testing Corporate Cleaning Group's numbers, including talking you out of a bad deal.
Talk to an independent CPA before you buy →Corporate Cleaning Group franchise questions, answered from the filings
What percentage of Corporate Cleaning Group franchises closed last year?
In Corporate Cleaning Group's latest FDD Item 20 (fiscal 2025), 2 of 45 franchised outlets left the system — an annualized exit rate of 4.4%. That counts terminations, non-renewals, and "ceased operations — other reasons." There is no official failure rate, and not every exit is a failure, but this is the measurable floor.
How much does a Corporate Cleaning Group franchise cost?
Per Corporate Cleaning Group's 2026 FDD, buying in requires an initial franchise fee of $60K (Item 5) and a total initial investment of $97K–$147K (Item 7).
What royalty does Corporate Cleaning Group charge?
Corporate Cleaning Group charges an ongoing royalty of 5.5% of gross sales, per Item 6 of its 2026 FDD.
Does Corporate Cleaning Group disclose earnings (Item 19)?
Yes — Corporate Cleaning Group makes a financial performance representation in Item 19 of its 2026 FDD, reporting a median unit volume of $432K. Read it closely: franchisors choose which units and which metrics to include.