Culligan Franchise Review and FDD Snapshot
Plumbing Installation & Service
Culligan
The franchise offered is the right to supply certain authorized water-related products and services and air filtration equipment under Culligan’s proprietary marks and to conduct business under an authorized trade name that uses the “Culligan” name.
Business Snapshot
- Industry: Plumbing Installation & Service
- Headquarters: Rosemont, Illinois, US
- Parent group: Independent / not linked
- Website: https://culligan.com
Economics Highlights
- Initial fee: $39,583.38, non-refundable except: 90% refund if unable to obtain licenses/permits within 180 days (50% if training provided); partial refund if training failure. No fee for existing dealers renewing or acquiring another dealership.
- Royalty: 2% of prior month’s Gross Revenues on Authorized Products and Services, 0.5% on Industrial and Ancillary Products and Services. Monthly by the 15th day of the following month. Exclusions: as defined in Franchise Agreement (e.g., reverse royalties, refunds, taxes).
- Brand fund: 1% of prior month’s Gross Revenues (excluding Industrial and Ancillary), monthly by 15th of following month. Culligan matches 50%.
- Local ad minimum: 0.5% of prior month’s Gross Revenues (excluding Industrial and Ancillary), monthly by 15th of following month. Must spend at least 1% annually on local advertising.
- Item 19 median AUV: Not available
- Item 19 coverage: Not available
What Culligan Does
The franchise offered is the right to supply certain authorized water-related products and services and air filtration equipment under Culligan’s proprietary marks and to conduct business under an authorized trade name that uses the “Culligan” name.
This page is generated from Franchise Fox franchise and FDD-derived data. Reported franchisee counts and economics usually come from the most recent available FDD snapshot rather than manually edited marketing copy.
Scale and Filing Notes
The current Franchise Fox dataset has strong FDD coverage, but live location counts are still sparse in the denormalized export. For now, the best “size” signal is reported franchisee count.
