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Knockouts®, the best place for men's hair care and grooming, is a sports-themed franchised salon chain providing competitively-priced haircuts and other grooming services including coloring, massage therapy, facials, manicures, pedicures, and hair waxing. It caters specially to men by offering a pampering experience that is not available at other discount walk-in salons and without charging high-end salon prices.

Each salon features friendly and professional staff of female stylists in Knockouts uniforms, large leather chairs fitted specially for men, individual flat screen TV's with a remote control at each station playing your favorite sports teams and complimentary beverages. The environment is upscale and professional yet casual and fun.

Since 2004, Knockouts has sold more than 120 franchised locations in thirteen states, including Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Maine, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Texas and Vermont. The chain currently operates nine salons, with many more scheduled to open soon. Here in New England, you now have an opportunity to get in on the ground floor with this new and exciting franchise.

• Lower startup and on-going costs – The initial franchise fee is $20,000. The annual royalty is 6% on gross sales. Our national advertising fee is 1% (not yet implemented), and if we don't use the money that year it's refunded to the franchisees. The other chains have national advertising or marketing funds and you pay an additional 3% to 5% on gross sales. We also don't require franchisees to make maximum equipment and product purchases. From Knockouts, you buy all equipment at cost through our preferred providers and we don't mark it up.
• Wider protected territories – we offer wider protected territories around a store compared to other national chains.
• No prior salon management experience required – we train the Knockout Girls® to manage and operate your stores.
• On-going support and training – our local team is experienced and based here in New England to provide hands-on support to help you manage and grow your business. Sales and marketing and operations materials including 600+ pages of operations and training manual are available 24/7 on our secure Intranet site for you to access.
• Leveraging technology – we leverage start-of-the-art technology to help run and grow your business by driving strong customer loyalty. Operational data and metrics are available at your fingertips via our computer systems to allow you to effectively manage your business. Knockouts is one of the first franchised salon chains to offer fully computerized gift card programs. We also leverage the Internet heavily to promote our brand and drive traffic back into the stores.
• Unique branding – we have a relentless focus on building a national brand around creating a unique pampering experience at competitive prices for each and every one of our customers to build strong customer loyalty. This unique brand positioning allows you the local owner to have a strong local presence with the benefits of having national brand recognition and system support, which gives you a competitive advantage over local independent salons and other walk-in discount chains.
• Longer franchise term – we offer 30-year terms compared to 15 to 20 years offered by most other franchises.

There are many more reasons why you should consider franchising with Knockouts. To find out more, please visit www.nekocorp.com and www.knockouts.net.”

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