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Edible Arrangements sold 300 new franchise stores annually by 2005

Tariq Farid · Edible Arrangements: Tariq Farid · Aug 21, 2017 · at 30:39

Tariq Farid, founder of Edible Arrangements, discusses the rapid scaling of the company's franchise sales after automating operations and establishing a corporate team.

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“When I hired that team and all these things that we had automated and put into systems, ah, we were, by 2004, 2005, we were selling 300 stores a year.”

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By 2004 to 2005, Edible Arrangements was selling 300 franchise stores per year.

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Assessment

Tariq Farid claimed that by 2004 to 2005, Edible Arrangements was selling 300 franchise stores per year. However, company records and contemporaneous announcements show that Edible Arrangements only reached its 250th cumulative franchise agreement since inception on October 31, 2005. Having signed a total of 250 franchise agreements across its entire operating history from 2001 through late 2005, the company was not selling 300 stores per year in either 2004 or 2005.

Edible Arrangements had a total of 32 franchised locations open by year-end 2003.
On October 31, 2005, Edible Arrangements officially announced the signing of its 250th cumulative franchise agreement since inception in 2001.
Because cumulative agreements reached only 250 by late October 2005, annual sales did not reach 300 stores per year during 2004 or 2005.

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