Industry Reports — Franchise benchmarks across the whole industry | ClearlyFDD
Industry Reports

Most franchise data stops at one brand. This is the whole industry.

Benchmark a category, a segment, or the entire industry across every filing in the library — with each figure traced back to the Item and page it came from.

1,600+
Franchise brands in the library
2,400+
FDD filings analyzed
23
Categories tracked across the industry
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What you can see

Industry reports come at the data from four directions — from a single category to the entire library, or a custom cut built around your question.

Category report

One category, every brand in it.

Fees, investment ranges, required systems, and growth — benchmarked across each brand in a single segment.

e.g. Quick-service, Fitness, Home services
Segment report

A slice defined by what matters to you.

Brands grouped by size, model, ownership, or any attribute in the filings — not just the standard category labels.

e.g. Sub-500-unit brands, PE-owned systems
Industry-wide report

The whole library, read in aggregate.

Where investment ranges, build-out specs, and requirements are moving across all 1,600+ brands, year over year.

e.g. 2026 investment-range shifts
Custom report

Tell us what you need to know.

Name the question and we build the dataset around it, every field traced back to the disclosure document it came from.

e.g. Which brands mandated a new POS in 2026?
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Who uses industry reports

Suppliers & vendors

Size a market, find where spend is concentrated, and time outreach to when requirements change in the filings.

Investors & analysts

Benchmark a brand against its category, or track where a whole segment is heading before it shows up elsewhere.

Franchisors & brand teams

See how your disclosure stacks up against the category — on fees, build-out, and required systems.

Press & researchers

Aggregate, sourced figures across the industry, with every number tied back to a filing.

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What a report looks like

Every report is delivered as a structured table — one row per brand, every column traced to its Item and page. The figures below are placeholders; your report is built from live filings.

Sample · Category benchmark (FDD Items 1, 7, 20)Preview
BrandUS unitsInvestment lowInvestment highYoY change
Brand A
Brand B
Brand C
Brand D

Columns are tailored to the question. Every value links back to the specific Item and page in the source filing.

Methodology

Industry reports aggregate publicly filed disclosure documents into structured, sourced datasets. We translate and benchmark what the filings say — we don't score, rank, or recommend brands as investments.

Tell us what you need to know.

Name the category, the segment, or the question — and we'll build the industry report around it, sourced to the filings.