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Craters & Freighters
Craters and Freighters strives to provide customers with the highest quality door-to-door packaging, crating and shipping services available at the most affordable rates possible. The Denver-based company, founded in 1990 by Diane Gibson, who saw a need to provide specialty shipping services for the arts and antiques industries, is committed to achieving the highest degree of customer satisfaction and to propelling the name of Craters and Freighters forward. Craters & Freighters is the leader in specialty freight solutions, providing expert packaging, crating and shipping services from its network of locations nationwide. Unique to the transportation industry, Craters & Freighters builds customized shipping containers and wood crates engineered to ensure valuable shipments arrive safe, damage-free and on-time.
Facts & figures
The capital required to open a unit is $100,000. You need to have a total net worth of $150,000 if you want to become an owner. Craters & Freighters franchisees pay a royalty of 5% back to the franchisor. The low end of the total investment required to open a new franchise is $88,600. The most the franchisor could ask you to invest is $140,000 if you want to become a franchisee. The franchise fee to open a Craters & Freighters unit is $15,000. Company operations commenced in 1990. Franchising as a means of location growth started in 1991. Today, the location count for this franchise has reached 66.
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