Franchises · 2026 FDD · Wisconsin DFI filing 640276
Mac Tools franchise cost, unit revenue and closures
Opening a Mac Tools cost $137,885 to $418,385 in the 2026 FDD; the franchisor's revenue disclosure has no single unit figure; 40.2% of franchised units closed over three years.
Franchisor: Stanley Industrial & Automotive, LLC. FDD issued 2026-02-24, amended 2026-02-26. Fiscal year end 2026-01-03. Figures re-found on the cited page 2026-11-04.
What a unit costs to open
new franchisee with one Route, before any incentives; a converting Mac Tools distributor totals $9,750 to $82,430 (page 26).
What a unit pays the franchisor
| Initial franchise fee | $8,000 | Item 5, p. 8 |
|---|---|---|
| Royalty | no royalty; an Annual Fee of $1,200 and the cost of inventory purchased from the franchisor | Item 6, p. 11 |
| Advertising fund | no advertising fund contribution is listed in Item 6 | Item 6, p. 11 |
one Route; not charged when an existing franchisee adds a Route.
No percentage-of-sales royalty; the franchisor is paid through tool purchases.
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. fiscal 2025 gross sales per Route for the 894 Routes open all year, presented only as counts and averages within $25,000 sales bands (from under $50,000 to the top band); no all-route average or median (Item 19, p. 70, 71, 72).
Sample: 894 of the 901 Routes operated for the entire fiscal 2025 (ended 2026-01-03) by the 832 franchisees running 1,027 Routes at year end; excludes 3 non-reporting Routes, 1 with interrupted operations, 3 reported in aggregate and 131 opened during the year. Period: fiscal 2025, 2024-12-29 to 2026-01-03.
Revenue to investment
Undefined: Item 19 gives sales bands with no all-route figure.
How many units open and close
| Franchised units | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start of year | 772 | 813 | 822 |
| Opened | 128 | 130 | 112 |
| Terminated | 87 | 121 | 102 |
| Not renewed | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Reacquired by franchisor | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ceased, other reasons | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| End of year | 813 | 822 | 832 |
| Company-owned, end of year | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Item 20, Table 1 p. 73; Table 3 totals p. 80.
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.
counts are franchisees (Mac Tools Businesses), not Routes.
Source and method
Every figure above comes from the Mac Tools Franchise Disclosure Document issued 2026-02-24 and amended 2026-02-26, as filed with the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions (filing 640276, 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.
A mobile tool-truck franchise. There is no royalty or advertising fund: the franchisor earns on the tools it sells to franchisees, and Item 20 counts franchisees while Item 19 reports sales per Route (truck)..
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