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FILING · MN · 2024 FDD · 1+ YEAR OLD

SIGNAL 88 SECURITY FDD (Franchise Disclosure Document) — 2024

The FDD is the 23-item legal disclosure every U.S. franchisor must hand you at least 14 days before you sign or pay anything (FTC Franchise Rule, 16 CFR 436). SIGNAL 88 SECURITY's most recent FDD tracked here is the 2024 FDD · 1+ year old, filed with the Minnesota Department of Commerce (public CARDS portal). Registration-state filings are public records, so you can read it free, with no sign-up.

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PUBLIC RECORD · FILED 2024 · SOURCE STATE MN

What the 2024 filing revealedextracted from the filing
ITEM 5Initial franchise fee$120,000
ITEM 6Ongoing royalty4.0% of gross sales
ITEM 7Total initial investment$127K–$5.1M
ITEM 19Earnings disclosure (FPR)Yes — financial performance representation made
ITEM 20Outlets (fiscal 2023)1,059 franchised at year end · 30 exits (exit rate 3.1%, fiscal 2023)
Item 19 · how SIGNAL 88 SECURITY's earnings claim is built2024 FDD · page-cited

The headline figure is Avg. Revenue Per Open and Operating Units (Gross Revenue) for Calendar year 2023. It is not an annual per-outlet figure, so we don't treat it as unit revenue. It shows no costs, so it says nothing about what an owner keeps.

LimitedCovers 191 units; total not comparable · median and mean · no expenses

Graded on three things the filing states: coverage (2 points if the figure covers at least 75% of the units it is compared with, 1 point for 50–75%), centre (2 points if it prints both a median and a mean, 1 for one of them), and costs (2 points for costs through a profit line or full cost detail, 1 for some cost items). 5–6 points = More complete, 3–4 = Partial, 0–2 = Limited. The grade describes the disclosure, not the business.

What is measuredAvg. Revenue Per Open and Operating Units (Gross Revenue) (revenue; not an annual per-outlet figure)
PeriodCalendar year 2023
Whose resultsFranchised outlets
Units included191 (total for comparison not stated)
Left outno exclusions stated
Average (mean)printed, but not an annual per-outlet figure
Medianprinted, but not an annual per-outlet figure
Met or beat the average67 (35%)
Costs shownNone — sales only
Wherep. 46 (Item 19 runs pp. 44–50)
The filing's words“a summary of the collective Annual Gross Revenue for all U.S. Franchised Business Units from 2008 through 2023”

Every figure above was extracted by software from the 2024 SIGNAL 88 SECURITY FDD as filed (figures are not individually checked by a person) and links back to that document. Fields that could not be extracted are omitted; no figure here is estimated. Extraction errors are possible: the filing controls, and FDDs are reissued annually; verify against the current issuance before relying on any number. Spotted an error? Franchisors and owners can report it via the contact on our Terms page.

SIGNAL 88 SECURITY FDD questions, answered

Where can I download the SIGNAL 88 SECURITY FDD for free?

SIGNAL 88 SECURITY's 2024 Franchise Disclosure Document is a public record, filed with the Minnesota Department of Commerce (public CARDS portal). It can be downloaded free from the source link on this page — no broker form, no email signup required.

What year is SIGNAL 88 SECURITY's most recent FDD on file?

The most recent SIGNAL 88 SECURITY FDD tracked here is the 2024 FDD · 1+ year old, filed with the Minnesota Department of Commerce (public CARDS portal). Franchisors must update their FDD annually; confirm you are reading the current issuance before signing.

Does SIGNAL 88 SECURITY's FDD disclose earnings (Item 19)?

Yes — SIGNAL 88 SECURITY makes a financial performance representation in Item 19 of its 2024 FDD. Read the basis fine print: franchisors choose which units and metrics to include.

What does SIGNAL 88 SECURITY's FDD Item 20 show?

In fiscal 2023, SIGNAL 88 SECURITY ended with 1,059 franchised outlets; 30 of 963 open at the start of the year left the system (exit rate 3.1%, fiscal 2023) through terminations, non-renewals, and "ceased operations — other reasons".

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