Where is the Market Area for a Creative World School identified?
Creative_World_School Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
The franchise is granted for a specific location that first must be approved by us (the "Site"). The Site will be located in an exclusive Market Area identified on Exhibit "B" to the Franchise Agreement. You must obtain our written consent before relocating your School. We will only approve a Site for relocation that is within your Market Area. Generally, the Market Area consists of the location of the School and the geographic area within a 5-mile radius around the location. We do not grant you any rights of first refusal, or similar rights, to acquire additional franchises.
We grant you an exclusive Market Area. Continuation or modification of your exclusive Market Area does not depend on achieving certain sales volume, market penetration, or other contingency. As long as you are in compliance with the Franchise Agreement, we will not grant a franchise to anyone else to operate, or ourselves operate, a School within your Market Area. However, we may establish other Schools (franchised or owned by us) anywhere outside of the Market Area, that may or may not compete with your location. We may establish other franchises or Company-Owned units or other channels of distribution that provide similar products or services under different trademarks.
We (and our affiliates) reserve the right, without any compensation to you, to use other channels of distribution (such as the internet, catalogues, telemarketing, direct marketing) to make sales within your Market Area using our Marks. We (and our affiliates) reserve the right, without any compensation to you, to use other channels of distribution (such as the internet, catalogues, telemarketing, direct marketing) to make sales within your Market Area using while using any trademarks other than our Marks. There are no restrictions on you or other franchisees from soliciting or accepting customers outside your or another franchisee's Market Areas. You may use the Internet to advertise or to develop a website only in compliance with the Franchise Agreement. We have no obligation to pay you or another franchisee any compensation for soliciting or accepting customers inside your or their Market Area.
Source: Item 12 — TERRITORY (FDD pages 47–48)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to the 2025 Creative World School Franchise Disclosure Document, the specific location for a franchise is subject to the franchisor's approval and is referred to as the "Site." The Site must be situated within an exclusive Market Area, which is detailed in Exhibit "B" of the Franchise Agreement. Generally, this Market Area encompasses the location of the Creative World School and the geographic area within a 5-mile radius around it.
Creative World School grants franchisees an exclusive Market Area, and the continuation or modification of this area is not dependent on factors like sales volume or market penetration. As long as the franchisee adheres to the Franchise Agreement, Creative World School will not grant another franchise or operate a school within that Market Area. However, Creative World School retains the right to establish other franchised or company-owned units outside the Market Area, potentially competing with the franchisee's location. They can also establish other franchises or company-owned units or other distribution channels that offer similar products or services under different trademarks.
Creative World School reserves the right to use other distribution channels, such as the internet, catalogs, telemarketing, and direct marketing, to make sales within the franchisee's Market Area using trademarks other than Creative World School's Marks, without any compensation to the franchisee. There are no restrictions on franchisees soliciting or accepting customers outside their designated Market Areas. Franchisees are permitted to use the Internet to advertise or develop a website, provided they comply with the Franchise Agreement. Creative World School is not obligated to compensate franchisees for soliciting or accepting customers inside their Market Area.