Economic Impact Report

The purpose of the Economic Impact of Franchised Businesses report is to provide updated measures of the total economic impacts of franchised businesses for the year 2005 (the latest year for which data is available).

In February of 2004, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) released Volume I of The Economic Impact of Franchised Businesses, which provided measures of the total economic impact of franchised businesses in the United States using data for the year 2001. That report, the first of its kind, found that franchised businesses generate a significant amount of economic activity in the United States and that they stimulate still more economic activity in non-franchised businesses.

Indirect Impact

The economic impact of franchising goes beyond activities inside franchised businesses, because their purchases of products and services and the personal purchases of their owners and workers support non-franchised businesses.

Objectives and Importance

The objectives of The Economic Impact of Franchised Businesses report are to estimate the amount of activity generated within and because of franchised businesses, which have grown since the previous report was released in 2004.

Methodology

Several databases and modeling systems were used to generate the statistics in this report.