Can I face competition from other channels of distribution or competitive brands that All County controls?
All_County Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
t mail campaigns or physically visiting real estate offices or other businesses in your Territory for the purposes of soliciting referrals. You will not receive an exclusive territory. You may face competition from other franchisees, from outlets that we own, or from other channels of distribution or competitive brands that we control.
Activity Outside of Territory. You have the right to provide services to customer account locations located up to 50 miles from the principal business address for the Franchised Business.
We have the right to establish ALL COUNTY® business offices anywhere outside your Territory. Except for conducting grass-roots marketing efforts in your Territory, defined as conducting direct mail campaigns or physically visiting real estate offices or other businesses in your Territory for the purposes of soliciting referrals, we, our affiliates, or other franchisees have the right to conduct radio, television, or other advertising, or service customer accounts inside your Territory. We have the right to sell services and any ancillary products, whether or not using the Marks, inside or outside your Territory through distribution channels other than ALL COUNTY® businesses, including offering real estate advertising and listing services through Internet websites or through published materials that are distributed in your Territory. We do not have to pay you any compensation for soliciting or accepting orders inside your Territory.
You do not have the right to use other channels of distribution, such as the Internet, catalog sales, telemarketing, or other directed marketing to make sales outside your Territory, unless we provide you with our prior written consent.
Source: Item 12 — Territory (FDD pages 26–28)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to All County's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, franchisees may face competition from various sources. While All County will not establish or license another physical All County business within a franchisee's territory, the franchisee will not receive an exclusive territory. This means that franchisees may face competition from other franchisees, from outlets that All County owns, or from other channels of distribution or competitive brands that All County controls.
All County retains the right to conduct advertising, including radio and television, and service customer accounts within a franchisee's territory. All County also has the right to sell services and ancillary products, even using the All County marks, inside or outside the franchisee's territory through other distribution channels. These channels include offering real estate advertising and listing services through Internet websites or published materials distributed in the territory. The franchisee will not receive compensation for orders solicited or accepted within their territory by All County.
Furthermore, franchisees are restricted from using other distribution channels like the Internet, catalog sales, or telemarketing to make sales outside their territory without prior written consent from All County. However, the FDD states that neither All County nor its affiliates operate or plan to operate or franchise businesses under a different trademark that will sell similar services or goods to those of the Franchise Business.