Can Augusta Lawn Care establish or operate other Augusta Lawn Care businesses near the franchisee's territory?
Augusta_Lawn_Care Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
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You may receive a Territory that restricts us from establishing or operating, or granting any person other than you the right to establish or operate, an Augusta Lawn Care Business at any physical location in your Territory. However, we may: (a) at locations outside your Territory, including locations near the boundaries of your Territory, establish and operate, and grant others the right to establish and operate, an Augusta Lawn Care Business; (b) at locations outside your Territory, establish and operate, and grant others the right to operate, businesses similar to the Augusta Lawn Care Business; (c) at any location, license the use of alternative proprietary marks or methods in connection with the operation of businesses that may be similar to or different from the Augusta Lawn Care Business; and (d) use other channels of distribution, including the Internet. We are not
required to pay you if we exercise any of these reserved rights. Currently, we do not operate or franchise, and do not have any plans to operate or franchise, any other businesses under alternative proprietary marks. Additionally, although no other Augusta Lawn Care Business may operate at any physical location in your Territory, Augusta Lawn Care and other Augusta Lawn Care franchisees may service clients in your Territory, so long as Augusta Lawn Care and other Augusta Lawn Care franchisees do not advertise or market in your Territory.
To the extent you do not receive an exclusive or semi-exclusive Territory, and another franchisee purchases an exclusive territory in the area in which you operate, you agree to relinquish the rights to acquire new customers in that territory once it becomes another franchisee's Territory.
As a single-unit Augusta Lawn Care Business franchisee, you do not receive the automatic right to acquire additional franchises.
Source: Item 12 — TERRITORY (FDD pages 27–28)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Augusta Lawn Care's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, franchisees do not receive an exclusive territory. The Approved Location of a single Augusta Lawn Care franchise will be at the center of the Territory, composed of a circle having a radius of five (5) miles or up to a population of approximately 100,000 people.
Augusta Lawn Care retains specific rights, including the ability to establish or operate Augusta Lawn Care businesses outside the franchisee's territory, even near its boundaries. They can also grant others the right to do so. Additionally, Augusta Lawn Care can operate or franchise other business concepts, even those similar to Augusta Lawn Care, at any location, including within a franchisee's territory. They may also use alternative proprietary marks or methods in connection with businesses similar to or different from Augusta Lawn Care.
While another Augusta Lawn Care Business may not operate at any physical location in your Territory, Augusta Lawn Care and other Augusta Lawn Care franchisees may service clients in your Territory, so long as Augusta Lawn Care and other Augusta Lawn Care franchisees do not advertise or market in your Territory. If a franchisee does not receive an exclusive or semi-exclusive Territory, and another franchisee purchases an exclusive territory in the area in which they operate, they agree to relinquish the rights to acquire new customers in that territory once it becomes another franchisee's Territory.
Augusta Lawn Care also retains the right to operate an Augusta Lawn Care concept at a trade show booth, or similar temporary location, within Your Approved Territory for up to fifteen (15) consecutive days and offer Augusta Lawn Care franchises to others for any site outside Your Approved Territory regardless of how close the site is to Your Approved Territory.