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.
New to franchising? Start here
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
Too new to judge
Distress
45 franchised units over 3 disclosed years is not a track record — systems this early have realized only a fraction of their eventual failures. Judge the disclosures, not a verdict.
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
$217,391
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.
8 questions to ask a Corporate Cleaning Group franchisee
Built from this brand's own disclosures · take it to your validation calls
The franchisor will give you a list of owners to call. Most buyers ask whether they like it. These are the questions built from what Corporate Cleaning Group has actually disclosed — each one carries the number it came from, so you can tell whether the answer squares with the record.
- 01
Corporate Cleaning Group’s own Item 20 shows 2 of 45 franchised outlets left the system in fiscal 2025 — about 4.4%. Do you know any of those owners, and do you know why they left?
A franchisor will call these “transitions.” An owner three doors down usually knows whether they sold at a profit or handed the keys back.
FDD Item 20 · FY2025
- 02
Item 7 says the low end to open is $97K, but the average recent SBA loan to a Corporate Cleaning Group franchisee was $217K. What did you actually spend to open, all in?
Lenders size loans to real project costs. A large gap between the disclosed floor and what banks actually fund is the most common way buyers get underfunded.
FDD Item 7 vs SBA approvals FY2020+
- 03
You pay 5.5% royalty on gross sales, plus the ad fund, before any of your own costs. On your actual revenue last year, what did you take home as the owner — not revenue, take-home?
Royalty is charged on sales, not profit. This is the number the brochure never shows and the one your life actually runs on.
FDD Item 6
- 04
Corporate Cleaning Group makes an earnings claim in Item 19. Does your unit look like that number — and do you know which units they included to build it?
Item 19 is legal to build from a flattering subset. Ask whether they excluded new units, closed units, or company stores.
FDD Item 19 · 2026
- 05
How many months did it take to cover your own costs, and how much cash did you burn getting there?
Ramp-to-breakeven working capital is the most underestimated line in any franchise purchase, and the most common reason otherwise-good units fail.
Not disclosed in any FDD — ask an owner
- 06
What does the franchisor charge for that you didn't expect — required tech fees, mandatory remodels, approved-supplier pricing?
Required spending appears across Items 6, 8 and 11 rather than in one place, so buyers routinely miss the total.
FDD Items 6, 8, 11
- 07
If your agreement came up for renewal tomorrow at current terms, would you sign again?
The single most predictive question you can ask. A hesitation is the answer.
Ask every owner you speak to
- 08
Who else should I call — including someone who left?
The franchisor's list is curated by definition. Former franchisees are where the unflattering truth lives, and current owners usually know how to reach them.
Ask every owner you speak to
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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.