What are Dryject's responsibilities regarding the Marketing Fund?
Dryject Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
rative costs, indirect expenses and subsidizing costs. As the DryJect System expands, We may establish an advertising council.
- (iii) We will maintain separate bookkeeping accounts for the Marketing Fund and may, but will not be required to cause Marketing Fund contributions to be deposited into one or more separate bank accounts. The Marketing Fund is not a trust, and We are not a fiduciary or trustee of the Marketing Fund or the monies in the Marketing Fund. However, We may, in Our discretion, separately incorporate the Marketing Fund or create a Marketing Fund trust, over which We may be the trustee, into which Marketing Fund contributions may be deposited.
- (iv) No portion of the Marketing Funds collected will be used principally to sell franchises. However, a brief statement about availability of information regarding the purchase of DryJect franchises may be included in advertising and other items produced and/or distributed using the Marketing Fund.
- (d) Except when advertising cooperatively with other franchisees or with Us, You are prohibited from advertising outside Your Designated Territory. Unless granted specific written permission to the contrary, Your local advertising activity is limited to direct mail, print and broadcast media, speaking engagements, networking events and all other types of activity designed to encourage and solicit business only within Your Designated Territory. If Your Designated Territory lies within an Area of Dominant Influence (ADI) of media sources located outside of Your Designated Territory, and if other franchisee- or Franchisor- or affiliate-owned units lie within the same ADI, then We reserve the right to require You and other franchisees to cooperate and participate in advertising through that media source on a cooperative basis.
- (e) We reserve the right to require You to cooperate and participate in certain special promotional events or campaigns that may from time to time be sponsored by Us, other franchisees, or both.
Source: Item 8 — BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP (FDD pages 68–229)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Dryject's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, Dryject will maintain separate bookkeeping accounts for the Marketing Fund and may deposit contributions into one or more separate bank accounts. Dryject states that the Marketing Fund is not a trust, and Dryject is not a fiduciary or trustee of the Marketing Fund. However, Dryject may separately incorporate the Marketing Fund or create a Marketing Fund trust, over which they may be the trustee, into which Marketing Fund contributions may be deposited.
Dryject states that no portion of the Marketing Funds collected will be used principally to sell franchises, but a brief statement about the availability of information regarding the purchase of Dryject franchises may be included in advertising and other items produced and/or distributed using the Marketing Fund. Dryject also reserves the right to place additional local, regional, or national advertising at their expense. All Franchisor-owned units or affiliate-owned units will contribute to the Marketing Fund on the same basis as franchised units. A portion of the Marketing Fund may be used to reimburse Dryject or their designees for reasonable advertising-related administrative costs, indirect expenses, and subsidizing costs.
Funds not spent in any given fiscal year will be carried forward to the next year. As the Dryject System expands, Dryject may establish an advertising council. Dryject also has the final decision concerning all information and functionality that appears on the Dryject Internet Website and will update or modify the Dryject Internet Website according to a schedule that they determine. Any digital or electronic content a franchisee publishes must comply with Dryject's brand communication standards and is subject to their approval.