Franchises · 2026 FDD · Wisconsin DFI filing 641042
Christian Brothers Automotive franchise cost, unit revenue and closures
Opening a Christian Brothers Automotive cost $515,250 to $650,400 in the 2026 FDD; the franchisor's revenue disclosure has no single unit figure; 0.0% of franchised units closed over three years.
Franchisor: Christian Brothers Automotive Corporation. FDD issued 2026-04-17. Fiscal year end 2025-12-31. Figures re-found on the cited page 2026-11-03.
What a unit costs to open
excludes the land and building, which the franchisor develops and leases to the franchisee (Note 14).
What a unit pays the franchisor
| Initial franchise fee | $85,000 | Item 5, p. 5 |
|---|---|---|
| Royalty | Continuing Royalty Fee 50% of monthly Split Profits (profit after approved expenses, including a $60,000 owner salary) | Item 6, p. 8 |
| Advertising fund | marketing payments of $12,500 per year as of 2025-12-31 (Item 11) | Item 6, p. 8 |
$20,000 earned when paid; the balance is applied to the store.
A profit share, not a percentage of sales, so it is not comparable with a royalty.
What a unit sells
Item 19 is optional and is the franchisor's own representation. It is shown here as filed, with the franchisor's measure, sample and period, and nothing is estimated where it is missing.
Item 19 present, no single unit figure. Schedule 19.1A: average Net Sales for 2025 by sales range for the 302 franchised stores open all of 2025; Schedule 19.1B: 2024 and 2025 averages for the 280 stores open both years; plus Net Sales and expense comparisons by store age. The schedules are images in the filed PDF and their figures were not extracted in this pass (Item 19, p. 49, 50, 51, 52).
Sample: 302 franchised stores open the entire year of 2025 (excludes the 24 opened in 2025); results adjusted to the current 50% Split Profits royalty and $60,000 owner salary. Period: 2025-01-01 to 2025-12-31.
The figures in these tables are embedded as images in the filed PDF and have not yet been transcribed; they will be read by hand before this page shows them.
Revenue to investment
Undefined: the Item 19 schedule tables were not extracted.
How many units open and close
| Franchised units | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start of year | 265 | 280 | 302 |
| Opened | 15 | 22 | 24 |
| Terminated | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Not renewed | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Reacquired by franchisor | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ceased, other reasons | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| End of year | 280 | 302 | 326 |
| Company-owned, end of year | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Item 20, Table 1 p. 64; Table 3 totals p. 68.
Closures are the franchisor's Item 20 counts of units terminated, not renewed, or ceased for other reasons, summed over 2023–2025 and divided by franchised units at the start of 2023. Units the franchisor reacquired are not closures. This is an Item 20 count, not a failure rate.
all three rows sum; no closures of any kind in three years.
Source and method
Every figure above comes from the Christian Brothers Automotive Franchise Disclosure Document issued 2026-04-17, as filed with the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions (filing 641042, registry record). The PDF is the franchisor's and is not hosted here; the item and page beside each figure is where to check it. Item 7 and Item 20 tables were read cell by cell; Item 19 was read by hand; each Item 20 year was checked to sum (start + opened − exits = end) before it was recorded.
The franchisor builds and owns the store real estate and leases it to the franchisee, and takes its royalty as a share of profit rather than a percentage of sales..
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