Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Franchisors worldwide
RevenueBase identified 965 franchisors worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 22,453 professional contacts across them, including 3,183 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Sao Paulo the largest hub.
This list covers franchisors worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026. Country and city lists for franchisors follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest franchisors worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5,471 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Harvey Norman Holdings Ltd, a public company that, as a franchisor, grants franchises to independent business operators, as business owners who retail products for the home and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 2,455 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Domino's Pizza Enterprises (DPE) is the largest pizza chain in Australia in terms of both network store numbers and network sales.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,342 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Famous Brands is best known for its much-loved brands and reputation as a leading and responsible franchisor in the restaurant industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 611 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “EXCELLENCE.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 463 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MFC operates International franchise brands Since 2014.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 373 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2005, Redberry Group is one of the largest quick-service restaurant franchisees in Canada with more than 185 locations under the banners of BURGER KING, Taco Bell, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 271 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We founded The Perfect Franchise (TPF) on one simple principle: helping individuals achieve financial independence and personal fulfillment through franchising.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 267 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Devenez chef d'entreprise en franchise et exploitez un magasin sous enseigne CONTACT, CITY, EXPRESS, 8 à Huit, Bio.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 237 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Créé il y a plus de 25 ans, le Groupe Bertrand est un acteur majeur de l'hôtellerie-restauration en France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 202 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “If you’re looking for the right franchise opportunity for you, Home Franchise Concepts has the answer with our family of brands: Budget Blinds, Aussie Pet Mobile, AdvantaClean…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 198 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PHC Franchised Restaurants Public Ltd, the largest company of franchised restaurants representing top brands such as Pizza Hut, KFC, Taco Bell, wagamama, Caffè Nero, Jamie Oliver…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 197 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tornamos pessoas comuns em empreendedores de alta performance no mercado de intermediação de veículos.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 149 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Pickl | BonBird | SouthPour” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 146 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Rent-A-Center Franchising International, Inc, formerly ColorTyme, Inc, is the franchisor of Rent-A-Center, the world’s largest rent-to-own brand.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 126 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “HorsePower Brands is a portfolio company in the home services franchising space.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 123 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 1982, The Saxton Group has a proven track record within the restaurant industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 119 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “After more than 20 years of operating successful restaurants under the Crowne Plaza umbrella, Gourmania International as a separate entity was born.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 114 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Westside Pizza is a pizza franchise that is headquartered in Boise, ID.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 106 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Starboard Group is a leader in the franchise industry ranked among the top 100 franchisees in the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 86 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Somos o Grupo Arcca, uma holding de franquias focada no setor de food service e tecnologia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Franchise FastLane, founded in 2017, provides turnkey franchise growth solutions and marketing services designed to help brands scale responsibly.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Minor DKL is a leading Australian retail food franchisor and is the intellectual property owner of The Coffee Club franchise system with a combined 450 restaurants in 11…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 80 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Encontre sua Franquia é uma holding que concentra 7 marcas próprias de franquias, focadas na sustentabilidade, suporte aos franqueados e alta rentabilidade.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 75 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ResiBrands offers entrepreneurs unmatched value in franchising.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 75 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The International Franchise Professionals Group (also known as IFPG) is a membership based organization that has over 1,700 members.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: franchisors. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names franchisors.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of franchisors, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name franchisors. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Franchisors worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among franchisors, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for franchisors are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “franchisors”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names franchisors), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among franchisors, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 3,183 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Franchisors by location
6 lists · largest firstEvery Franchisors list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names franchisors, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many franchisors are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 965 franchisors worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Harvey Norman, headquartered in Homebush West, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most franchisors?
The United States leads with 298 companies, followed by Brazil (106) and India (89). Every franchisors list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most franchisors?
Sao Paulo leads with 20 headquartered companies, followed by London (13) and Atlanta (12).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 3,183 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 965 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.