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Meineke Car Care Centers

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Sam Meineke began with a single store in Houston in 1972. That company, Meineke Car Care Centers,has since then become a subsidiary of Part Industry Corporation and part of a British-owned, multifaceted groups that supplies automotive and agricultural components and systems. The initial concept of providing quality exhaust service at discount prices has expanded to include complete brake service, oil and lube service, front-end alignment, shock and strut service and Catalytic converters.

There are over 2500 franchise opportunities in the US marketplace. Meineke's owners still manage the business day to day, they are still passionate about the business and franchising, and their business philosophy is still based on Sam's ideals. Meineke has one of the only electronic interactive training programs in franchising. Meineke has over 80 online training courses available for franchisees and employees to access. Ongoing auto repair shop franchising training in the field is a major objective of their Operations and Training Departments. In year 2004, more than 34,000 man hours of training were provided in the field.

Their total investment is 190 to 350 thousand dollars, Franchise fee 30 thousand dollars, ongoing royalty fee of 3 to 7 percent, renewal fee of 2.5 thousand dollars and term of agreement of 15 years which is renewable. According to the rankings in Entrepreneur magazine 2002-2006, they received Franchise 500 rank of 79 in 2006, rank 60 in 2005, rank 49 in 2004, rank 68 in 2003, rank 58 in 2002. They were ranked 1 in the category in 2003 and 2002. They also received America's Top Global Franchises ranking of 70 in 2006, rank 57 in 2005 and rank 54 in 2004.

With all the continuous hard efforts of all the members of the firm has made it one of the best in the business and has helped them reach to the pinnacle where others can only imagine of reaching. Customer support is one of their primary objective and they strive very hard to fulfill this objective. The market demands quality and they strive to give their customers what they demand.

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