Description of franchise system

THE CHILDREN’S ORCHARD is America's leading franchiser in new and gently used brand-name kid's retail, including clothing, toys, accessories, and furniture. This coast-to-coast franchise offers attractive spacious stores with the widespread reputation for quality and customer service. Learn about the high potential franchise business opportunity offered by Children's Orchard!

Already at $200 billion, the children's toy and clothing market is enormous and constantly growing. The Children’s Orchard market is even larger than the Fast Food market! Every year there are about 200,000 MORE children that need clothing than the previous year! And with mothers looking more and more for ways to save money, the resale region, with annual growth rates of around 5 to 10 percent, is expanding more rapidly than all other retail segments.

Children’s Orchard offers potential franchisors great margins, which naturally means great growth opportunity. A Children's Orchard franchise offers you kind of remarkable operating margins that most retailers only wish that they had.

A great customer just happens to be both your principal buyer and supplier:

Moms looking for superior children’s clothing at a discount price. Moms are not just the customers, they are also the main suppliers. They will sell you quality items that their children have outgrown at a small percentage of the original price. This makes for a self-perpetuating business concept that is easy to manage and works like a dream!

Franchise concept

The Children’s Orchard Company is a veteran franchisor that is dedicated to assisting you in developing your very own Children's Orchard business.

This exciting franchise opportunity has dedicated their resources and energies to helping you realize your business objectives in the most efficient way possible. They have taken a proven business system and a grand and growing market and put them together with an experienced and skilled franchise support team. When their tremendous public relations and marketing programs are added to this, the result is a first-class franchise opportunity.

With over 30 years of experience, Children’s Orchard is the franchise leader in every way: store design and décor, site selection and leasing assistance, inventory management, marketing, merchandising, training, on-going support….Children’s Orchard provides it all.
 
Children’s Orchard offers you an opportunity that exceeds expectations.

•  A vast and growing market.
• Great operating margins.
• Terrific customers.
• Family friendly.
• Unrivaled Support
• Proven business.

The people at Children’s Orchard know draw customers and keep them coming back, and they also know how to give you the training you need to do it too! From the very first day you join Children’s Orchard’s franchisee family, the company will be by your side every step of the way, providing site selection, store build-out, leasing, training, inventory purchasing, Grand Opening, merchandising and continual support and training.

Franchise partner profile

Obtaining your own Children's Orchard business might be more financially reasonable than you might expect. They are looking for men and women with solid entrepreneurial skill, the capital to make it happen, and a passion for the children’s retail business. 

If this sounds like the kind of franchise that is suited to you, fill out the information below and get on your way to becoming a Children’s Orchard owner!

Facts

Standard information

Company foundation (nat / worldwide)	1980 /
First franchising (nat / worldwide)	1985 /
Country of data	USA
Total investment (nat)	130.000 USD
Personal capital	50.000 USD
Initial entry fee	25.000 USD
Royalty	15.000 USD 5,00 % 15000 $ territory fee plus 5.0 % of Gross Sales
Advertising fee	1,00 %
Type of contract	Franchise-System Licence Cooperatives Others
Renewal fee
Space needs	111 - 185 m2
Master licenses available

Minimum turnover
Pilot unit in the country of data
Internal purchase
Mark-up of goods

Financial support

Training activities

Training content

Management support

Ideal franchisee profile

News

19.12.2008

Children's Orchard supports the Muscular Dystrophy Association

The Children's Orchard franchise has announced that last month Lynn Roberts, co-owner of Green’s Children Orchard (Ohio), was locked up at Greentown Fire Department. She was a member of the HartTow... » Read more