Metal Supermarkets
Franchise Overview
Metal Supermarkets operates brick-and-mortar metal distribution centers where owner-operators sell small-quantity metals — including aluminum, steel, stainless steel, brass, and copper — in a vast range of types, shapes, sizes, and grades, all cut to customers' exact specifications with no minimum order requirements.
Just the Facts
For most complete information, see Franchise Disclosure Documents
Metal Supermarkets FDDs and Analysis Reports
These Metal Supermarkets FDDs, as filed, contain 23 sections of federally mandated disclosures such as franchisee obligations, franchisor litigation, and financial performance. FDD's are typically 100+ pages long and are critical to evaluate when researching a franchise. Multi-year analysis reports track how these disclosures change across consecutive FDD filings.
Available Documents
Instant download after purchaseMulti-Year Analysis Packages
Year-over-year comparison of consecutive filings. Every figure cited to its filing, Item, and PDF page. Source FDDs included.
Metal Supermarkets 3-Year FDD Analysis Package (FY2023–FY2025)
Analysis report (23 pages) • 2 year-over-year transitions • 3 source FDDs (2024–2026 filings) included
What's insideSee a full sample report (PDF)
The report covers, in order:
- Executive summary
- Change index
- Consolidated unit summary
- Geographic summary
- Turnover, transfers & closure rates
- Franchisee investment and fees
- Financial performance representation
- Franchisor financial condition
- Franchisor entity & leadership
- Litigation & bankruptcy
- Method, limits and disclaimer
- What this report does not include
- You receive — one analysis report PDF and the 3 source FDD PDFs, 4 downloads in total, available immediately after purchase.
- Every figure is checkable — each carries a citation to its filing, FDD Item, and PDF page, and the filings it cites are in the package.
- Restatements are shown, not overwritten — where a later filing revises an earlier year's figures, both numbers appear with a note.
- Calculated figures are labeled — anything the report calculates rather than quotes is marked as calculated, with its formula published in the report.
- Gaps are explicit — a closing “What this report does not include” section separates what the franchisor didn't disclose from what this report doesn't collect, so an absence is never ambiguous.
Metal Supermarkets 2-Year FDD Analysis Package (FY2024–FY2025)
Analysis report (21 pages) • 1 year-over-year transition • 2 source FDDs (2025–2026 filings) included
What's insideSee a full sample report (PDF)
The report covers, in order:
- Executive summary
- Change index
- Consolidated unit summary
- Geographic summary
- Turnover, transfers & closure rates
- Franchisee investment and fees
- Financial performance representation
- Franchisor financial condition
- Franchisor entity & leadership
- Litigation & bankruptcy
- Method, limits and disclaimer
- What this report does not include
- You receive — one analysis report PDF and the 2 source FDD PDFs, 3 downloads in total, available immediately after purchase.
- Every figure is checkable — each carries a citation to its filing, FDD Item, and PDF page, and the filings it cites are in the package.
- Restatements are shown, not overwritten — where a later filing revises an earlier year's figures, both numbers appear with a note.
- Calculated figures are labeled — anything the report calculates rather than quotes is marked as calculated, with its formula published in the report.
- Gaps are explicit — a closing “What this report does not include” section separates what the franchisor didn't disclose from what this report doesn't collect, so an absence is never ambiguous.
Individual FDD Filings
Complete filings as submitted, including exhibits and financial statements.
Metal Supermarkets FDD 2026
January 2026
Metal Supermarkets FDD 2025
January 2025
Metal Supermarkets FDD 2024
January 2024
Metal Supermarkets FDD 2023
January 2023
Metal Supermarkets FDD 2022
January 2022
Metal Supermarkets FDD 2021
January 2021
Metal Supermarkets FDD 2020
January 2020
Metal Supermarkets FDD 2019
January 2019
Metal Supermarkets FDD 2018
January 2018
Metal Supermarkets FDD 2017
January 2017
Metal Supermarkets FDD 2016
January 2016
FDDs are reproduced as filed and are current only as of their filing dates. The FDD Document Processing Fee covers acquisition, storage, organization, and digital delivery of an individually purchased FDD.
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