Franchises · 2026 FDD · Wisconsin DFI filing 641811
Glo Tanning franchise cost, unit revenue and closures
Opening a Glo Tanning cost $759,200 to $1,448,000 in the 2026 FDD; the franchisor's revenue disclosure has no single unit figure; 0.0% of franchised units closed over three years.
Franchisor: GLO Tanning Franchise LLC. FDD issued 2026-04-20, amended 2026-07-07. Fiscal year end 2025-12-31. Figures re-found on the cited page 2026-11-03.
What a unit costs to open
single salon.
What a unit pays the franchisor
| Initial franchise fee | $45,000 | Item 5, p. 11 |
|---|---|---|
| Royalty | 6.5% of Gross Sales, monthly | Item 6, p. 12 |
| Advertising fund | Marketing and Tech Fund Fee 3% of gross sales | Item 6, p. 12 |
uniform since September 2025; earlier franchisees were often discounted or waived.
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. 2025 gross sales for 84 franchised salons by quartile (21 salons each): averages $968,245 / $702,685 / $598,612 / $506,310 and medians $886,520 / $696,443 / $595,330 / $502,116 from the top quartile down; no all-salon row (Item 19, p. 42, 43).
Sample: 84 franchised salons in operation at any point during the 2025 calendar year, including salons that opened or closed during 2025; a second set of tables covers 18 company/affiliate-owned salons open the entire year (quartile averages $1,029,114 to $601,215). Period: 2025 calendar year.
Revenue to investment
Undefined: Item 19 gives quartiles with no combined figure.
How many units open and close
| Franchised units | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start of year | 32 | 41 | 67 |
| Opened | 9 | 26 | 17 |
| Terminated | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Not renewed | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Reacquired by franchisor | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ceased, other reasons | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| End of year | 41 | 67 | 84 |
| Company-owned, end of year | 21 | 16 | 18 |
Item 20, Table 1 p. 44; Table 3 totals p. 46.
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; a footnote says 13 salons (2 Delaware, 8 Maryland, 3 Pennsylvania) left the system on 2026-01-31 after rescission of their franchise agreements, which is after the table's period.
Source and method
Every figure above comes from the Glo Tanning Franchise Disclosure Document issued 2026-04-20 and amended 2026-07-07, as filed with the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions (filing 641811, 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.
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