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Ace Hardware

Ace Hardware

Partial FDD data
Retail · Oak Brook, IL · Founded 1924 · Franchising since 1976
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Total to open · Item 7
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Not disclosed in the filing on record
Franchise fee · Item 5
Structured
$5,000 processing fee + $5,000 stock subscription fee (per co-op membership appl
Owner turnover
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Awaiting Item 20 extraction
Factbook Score
Pending
Brand has 0 year(s) of Item 20 history in our current extraction
✓ Shares earnings data · Item 19Pre-confidence-scoring extractionWhy these flags?

Beyond the filing

Everything else on this page is quoted from Ace Hardware's franchise disclosure document. This is not — it is measured off the open web, it is not verified by the franchisor, and it never affects the Factbook Score.

Customer rating
4.5 / 5
3,107 Google reviews across 10 locations
Best to worst location
4.2 – 4.8
Where this brand's locations sit on the same scale — the gap is what varies between franchisees
Website health
10 / 10
Basic checks: HTTPS, mobile viewport, speed, metadata. Most sites clear them
Store locator
Yes
Their site has a finder that sends customers to their nearest branch — how walk-in trade reaches a franchisee
iPhone app
4.8 / 5
403,057 App Store ratings · Ace Hardware: Home Improvement
Android app
None found
No Play Store link on their site — an app they don't link from their homepage would read the same way
Google returns at most twenty locations for a search, so the rating is a sample of Ace Hardware's outlets rather than all of them. Measured Sep 11, 2026.
Costs about the same
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Data-integrity flags on this profile
  • warnItem 7 range incomplete
These figures predate our extraction-confidence scoring

They were captured before we began scoring extraction confidence, so we can't put a number on them. They remain sourced — the filing is linked below. We publish the score rather than hiding it — see the methodology.

Royalty
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Franchised units
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3-yr unit growth
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CAGR from Item 20

What it really costs

Every cost figure this brand's filing discloses — not just the headline range

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Initial franchise fee——
Total initial investment——

Item 7 reports a total range, not a full line-item breakdown, in this brand's filing excerpt — the franchise fee is the only cost we can show separately today.

Earnings disclosure

Does the franchisor share performance data? Yes

Average revenue—
Median revenue—
Sample size1100

Legal history

CLEAR
No bankruptcy disclosures for the franchisor or its officers.
NOT DISCLOSED
Non-compete term/radius wasn't separately quantified in the filing excerpt we have on file.

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Common questions

Answered from this brand's own FDD filing. Where the filing is silent, the question is left out rather than answered with a guess.

Does Ace Hardware disclose earnings (Item 19)?

Yes. Ace Hardware makes a financial performance representation in Item 19 of its FDD. That figure covers 1100 outlets. Item 19 is optional under the FTC Franchise Rule, and gross revenue is not profit — it is stated before royalties, rent, staff and every other cost.

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Jul 30 Initial FDD data extracted (partial) — FDD pipeline batch

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Facts on this page are sourced from a third-party archive's copy of Ace Hardware's Franchise Disclosure Document, not filed with us directly — treat figures here as one step further from the original filing.

Item 7 was disclosed as itemized components rather than a single total in the accessible preview: startup inventory $150,000-$600,000, interior decor $7,000-$14,000, exterior signage $2,500-$25,000(approx, OCR-garbled), insurance $2,500-$30,000, training $35,000 - not summed into item7_total_low/high because the preview did not present a single combined range and summing independently would risk double-counting/inventing a figure. Item 19 references a 'Retail Financial Report' compiled by Profit Planning Group from ~1,100 stores (~25% of domestic stores) with profit margins disclosed in ranges, but exact figures weren't in the free preview. Litigation/bankruptcy/territory/non-compete not visible in the paywalled preview; per instructions, large mature brand so left null rather than guessed. A full 2014 FDD exists at fddexchange.com but was blocked by robots.txt on this pass.