How will Goldfish Swim School notify franchisees if it revokes the approval of a supplier?
Goldfish_Swim_School Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
You must purchase all of your supplies ("Approved Supplies") including without limitation your furniture, fixtures, equipment, including computer equipment, inventory, and signage under specifications in the Goldfish Swim School Confidential Brand Standards Manual ("Confidential Brand Standards Manual") and through suppliers approved by us ("Approved Suppliers"). You will be required to use Approved Suppliers to perform certain services on your behalf in connection with your Franchised Swim School. We communicate our standards and specifications to you when we evaluate your proposed location for the franchised swim school during training, before you conduct your initial advertising expense, during on-site opening assistance, during periodic visits to your franchise location and through the Confidential Brand Standards Manual (including periodic bulletins). We will periodically issue new standards and specifications (if any) through written notices. We have created standards and specifications for the development of your franchised swim school. We have required vendors and suppliers as identified in the Confidential Brand Standards Manual and we reserve the right to designate required additional vendors or suppliers, or revoke the approval of suppliers as we determine in our discretion from time to time in the future, and will provide you notice through the Confidential Brand Standards Manual.
Source: Item 8 — RESTRICTIONS ON SOURCES OF SERVICES AND PRODUCTS (FDD pages 27–30)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to Goldfish Swim School's 2025 Franchise Disclosure Document, franchisees will be notified through the Confidential Brand Standards Manual if the franchisor revokes approval of a supplier. The manual includes periodic bulletins to communicate these changes. Franchisees must immediately stop purchasing from a disapproved supplier upon notification.
Goldfish Swim School requires franchisees to purchase supplies, including furniture, fixtures, equipment, inventory, and signage, from approved suppliers. These standards and specifications are communicated during location evaluation, training, initial advertising, on-site opening assistance, periodic visits, and through the Confidential Brand Standards Manual.
This system ensures that franchisees are kept up-to-date with approved suppliers and any changes to that list. It is the franchisee's responsibility to stay informed of these changes and to comply immediately with any supplier disapprovals. This requirement helps maintain brand consistency and quality across all Goldfish Swim School locations.