Top 10 Franchise Property Management – 7-Eleven Inc. – Rank – 6

STARTUP COSTS – $50K – 1.63M

7-Eleven or 7-11 is part of an international chain of convenience stores. 7-Eleven, primarily operating as a franchise, is the world’s largest operator, franchisor, and licensor of convenience stores with more than 50,000 outlets. This number surpassed the previous record-holder, McDonald’s Corporation, in 2007, by approximately 1,000 retail stores.^[2][3] 7-Eleven branded stores under parent company Seven & I Holdings Co. The stores are located in 16 countries with its largest markets being Japan (15,000), the United States (7,800), Thailand (6,800), Indonesia, Canada, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia,^[4] and Singapore.

7-Eleven USA is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, while its globally operating parent company, Seven & I Holdings Co. Ltd. is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. 

Rankings

7-Eleven has been consistently ranked in Entrepreneur’s Franchise 500,^[72] ranked 6th in 2014 (falling two spots from 2013). In addition, they were ranked No.2 in Entrepreneur’s 2014 Fastest-Growing Franchises.^[73] In 2008, 7-Eleven was named the number one franchise by Entrepreneur, beating out Subway, which had held the number one spot for 15 years.