What factors determine the scope of a Bee Organized Operating Territory?
Bee_Organized Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
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Grant of Territory
The scope of your Operating Territory will vary from the scope and size of the operating territories of other franchisees in our System depending on local factors, market conditions, and the number of Territories that you purchase at the time of signing your Franchise Agreement. A Territory, generally, will consist of a geographic area that includes approximately 40,000 to 50,000 Qualified Households. Subject to availability, our approval, and payment of additional Initial Franchise Fees identified in Item 5 of this Disclosure Document, you may add Additional Territories. Each Additional Territory will consist of a geographic area that includes approximately 40,000 to 50,000 Qualified Households. The number of Qualified Households within an Operating Territory is determined in the aggregate and will be calculated based on raw data. Your Minimum Monthly Royalty Fee Requirement and local marketing expenditure will increase if you add Additional Territories.
Relocation
Your right to relocate your Bee Organized Business and, thereby, your Operating Territory is not guaranteed and approval of a relocation request by you is completely at our discretion. We evaluate relocation requests on a caseby-case basis and consider factors such as operational history, the location of your Operating Territory, our expansion plans, and other factors that, at the time of a relocation request, are relevant to us.
Establishment of Additional Franchised Businesses
You do not have the right to establish additional Bee Organized Businesses.
Source: Item 12 — TERRITORY (FDD pages 29–32)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Bee Organized's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, the scope of an Operating Territory is not uniform across all franchisees. Several factors influence its size and boundaries. These include local market conditions, and the number of territories a franchisee purchases when signing the Franchise Agreement. Generally, a Bee Organized territory will consist of a geographic area containing approximately 40,000 to 50,000 qualified households.
Adding additional territories is possible, subject to Bee Organized's approval, availability, and payment of additional initial franchise fees as detailed in Item 5. Each additional territory also includes approximately 40,000 to 50,000 qualified households. The number of qualified households is calculated based on raw data. It's important to note that a franchisee's minimum monthly royalty fee requirement and local marketing expenditure will increase with each additional territory acquired.
While franchisees do not receive an exclusive territory, Bee Organized states that it will not open nor grant another franchisee the right to open a Bee Organized business within a franchisee's operating territory, provided the franchisee is not in default of their obligations. However, this is subject to certain reserved rights retained by Bee Organized, as outlined in the Franchise Agreement. Furthermore, Bee Organized retains the right to use alternative channels of distribution, such as the internet or telemarketing, to make sales within a franchisee's territory without compensation to the franchisee.