Business structure of Local Tree Care’s gardening franchises

The Local Tree Care franchise is a stable and profitable home services business that has been in operation for nearly eight years. The gardening franchise has an extremely well-structured franchising system which has been designed to help franchisees succeed in their business operations.

The Local Tree Care franchise has a unified central management office which logs all incoming calls, allocates clients to franchisees, oversees and supervises the business of members and provides ongoing support and training. The gardening franchise charges a franchise levy of 10 per cent of the gross income of the members which is used for the maintenance of systems and equipment which an initial licensing fee of $55,000.00 including GST.

The Local Tree Care franchise also offers two different types of franchise and training packages. The first package is the all-inclusive franchise package and provides training in the operation of all equipment and in various methods of pruning, stump and dead wood removal and in the climbing of trees. If for any reason, health or age, the member is unable to climb trees, then the gardening franchise offers a limited franchise which involves all the aspects of its first package with the exception of tree climbing.