Franchise Growth Solutions

Franchise Growth Solutions provides franchise development, outsourced sales, and strategic advisory services to growing brands.

Founded: 2016

Headquarters: Westwood, New Jersey

Company Snapshot

Franchise Growth Solutions (FGS) works with businesses preparing to franchise and franchisors seeking support with expansion. It describes four areas of work: franchise development, franchise sales, infrastructure growth, and exit strategy. Its sales services cover development planning, lead generation, candidate qualification, discovery activities, and franchisee onboarding. The company also coordinates specialists in areas such as operations, marketing, finance, and site selection.

Its founder and managing partner is Gary Occhiogrosso. FGS describes its role as an outsourced development resource that can help a brand build the systems behind expansion as well as manage franchise sales activity. Its published sales process states that the franchisor remains involved in evaluating candidates and makes the final decision on franchise awards.

Why This Suppler

FGS spans an earlier stage of franchising than a sales-only organization. It offers help with assessing a concept, developing operating materials and infrastructure, and planning markets and candidate profiles before carrying out franchise recruitment. Its sales page describes how it approaches lead generation, qualification, discovery, and onboarding, giving franchisors a basis for discussing where its responsibilities would begin and end.

FGS also publishes a brand portfolio, while noting that the page reflects work by both the company and its network of outsourced partners; the precise role in each listed brand should be confirmed individually. Beyond client work, FGS publishes franchise education content, produces the MasterMind Minutes podcast, and helps organize the New York Franchisor Forum.

Evaluation Signals

Franchise Industry Fit: FGS identifies franchise development and sales as two of its four service areas. Its published sales process covers prospect contact through qualification, discovery, and franchise award.

Public Presence: The company maintains service, team, brand portfolio, and educational pages. It also appears in the International Franchise Association supplier directory.

Brand / Client Visibility: Açaí Express publicly described working with FGS on its U.S. franchise expansion. FGS’s portfolio page includes other brands.

Reputation Signals: The company publishes testimonials, and has a wide array of online and social presense in the franchise space.

Industry Engagement: FGS has been listed as an International Franchise Association member since 2019. Occhiogrosso and FGS have participated in organizing the New York Franchisor Forum.

Thought Leadership: Occhiogrosso hosts MasterMind Minutes. FGS also publishes articles on franchise development, sales, operations, and expansion planning.

Transparency Signals: FGS outlines its sales stages and says the franchisor retains the final candidate approval decision. It refers to service fees and a success-based component, but specific rates and contract terms would require direct outreach to supplier.

Questions to Ask

Before working with a franchise sales organization, franchisors should ask who will manage each stage of candidate discovery, how leads are generated and qualified, who owns candidate data, what CRM access and reporting the franchisor receives, and how the development strategy reflects the brand’s goals. They should also ask how fees are structured, how conversion and close rates are measured, who makes the final candidate approval decision, and how the sales team communicates with the franchisor.

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