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title: "Fitness Machine Technicians Earns Spot on Entrepreneur’s List of Top 500 Franchises for the Second Year in a Row"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/3cb3ef93-ac2b-430f-9248-19bcee2ac18a
source: "Franchising.com"
original_url: https://www.franchising.com/news/20220114_fitness_machine_technicians_earns_spot_on_entrepreneurs_list_of_top_500_fra.html
category: "Gym & HVLP"
industry: "Fitness"
segment: "Gym & HVLP"
published: 2022-01-14T12:00:00.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T02:12:47.013Z
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# Fitness Machine Technicians Earns Spot on Entrepreneur’s List of Top 500 Franchises for the Second Year in a Row

**TL;DR:** Fitness Machine Technicians has been recognized as one of the top 500 franchises by Entrepreneur for the second year in a row. The company was evaluated based on five pillars, including costs and fees, size and growth, support, brand strength, and financial strength and stability.

*originally published in Franchising.com on 2022-01-14. [Read the original](https://www.franchising.com/news/20220114_fitness_machine_technicians_earns_spot_on_entrepreneurs_list_of_top_500_fra.html).*

## Story

This highly competitive list recognizes the top 500 franchise brands that continued to grow and evolve in 2021. Entrepreneur evaluates franchises based on five pillars:

- Costs and fees

- Size and growth

- Support (i.e., training times, marketing support, operational support)

- Brand strength (i.e., social media, years in business)

- Financial strength and stability

“We value every one of our Fitness Machine Technicians franchisees and recognize their resiliency through the extraordinary challenges our industry faced this year,” said Don Powers, CEO and Founder of Fitness Machine Technicians. “It’s an honor to be recognized nationally for our success as a franchise brand for the second year in a row, and we’re excited to continue our growth in the next few years!”

For 43 years, Entrepreneur has recognized franchise brands in their Franchise 500® ranking and calls itself “the world’s first, best, and most comprehensive franchise ranking.” Fitness Machine Technicians made the publication’s list of Fastest Growing Franchises in 2020 and was ranked in the Franchise 500® in 2021.

Fitness Machine Technicians offers service/repair and maintenance on a variety of exercise equipment on a contract and non-contract basis.

## Entities

- Franchising.com (publication)
- franchise growth (topic)
- Fitness (sector)
- Entrepreneur (publication)
- franchise ranking (topic)
- Fitness Machine Technicians (company)
- top 500 franchises (topic)

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Originally reported by Franchising.com (https://www.franchising.com/news/20220114_fitness_machine_technicians_earns_spot_on_entrepreneurs_list_of_top_500_fra.html). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/3cb3ef93-ac2b-430f-9248-19bcee2ac18a).