Which section of the City Wide Franchise Agreement outlines the advertising obligations of a City Wide franchisee?
City_Wide Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
s related to the Franchise Advisory Council. Amounts and expenditures may vary from time to time due to variations in FAC costs as determined by CITY WIDE. Accordingly, regardless of whether Franchisee is elected to the Franchise Advisory Council, Franchisee will be required to pay Franchisee's proportionate share of travel and lodging costs of elected Franchise Advisory Council members. CITY WIDE will invoice Franchisee for Franchisee's share of such costs.
- 4.10 Review of Promotional and Advertising Materials. CITY WIDE must review all promotional and advertising materials Franchisee intends to use before Franchisee uses them under the provisions of Section 10 of this Agreement. As described in Section 10 of this Agreement, CITY WIDE agrees to provide to Franchisee reasonable amounts of such advertising and promotional materials as CITY WIDE has prepared and used in connection with other Businesses in the System owned or licensed by CITY WIDE, at a price equal to CITY WIDE's cost, including allocable overhead, plus ten percent (10%).
SECTION 5. Marks
5.1 Franchisee acknowledges that CITY WIDE is the licensee of the Marks found in Attachment C to this Agreement**.** Franchisee further acknowledges that CITY WIDE has disclosed fully to Franchisee that the Marks licensed hereunder are owned by CITY WIDE FRANCHISE HOLDING COMPANY, INC., an affiliate (See Section 13.2) of CITY WIDE.
Source: Item 9 — FRANCHISEE'S OBLIGATIONS (FDD pages 28–29)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to City Wide's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, Section 10 of the Franchise Agreement, as referenced in Item 22, and Section 7.16 outline the advertising obligations of a City Wide franchisee. Specifically, Section 4.10 states that City Wide must review all promotional and advertising materials before the franchisee uses them.
Section 4.10 also states that City Wide will provide franchisees with reasonable amounts of advertising and promotional materials that City Wide has prepared and used in connection with other businesses in the system at a price equal to City Wide's cost, including allocable overhead, plus ten percent (10%).
Section 7.16 states that franchisees must use only business stationery, business cards, marketing materials, advertising materials, printed materials, and forms supplied by a supplier designated or approved by City Wide. Franchisees must submit all promotional and advertising materials to City Wide for approval, providing a minimum of seven (7) business days for review. If City Wide does not respond within that time, the materials are deemed disapproved.