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title: "Wild Birds Unlimited Lands a Spot on Entrepreneur’s 41st Annual Franchise 500 Ranking"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/d23052bf-3a2e-4ead-a05a-2e36681122de
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/wild-birds-unlimited-lands-a-spot-on-entrepreneurs-41st-annual-franchise-500-ranking-2712228
category: "Specialty retail"
industry: "Retail"
segment: "Specialty retail"
topics: ["Emerging brands"]
published: 2020-02-07T19:14:31.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T02:09:51.273Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/4d9591ae284d869c8e3be6b1c368837c846.jpg
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# Wild Birds Unlimited Lands a Spot on Entrepreneur’s 41st Annual Franchise 500 Ranking

**TL;DR:** Wild Birds Unlimited ranked #137 in Entrepreneur's 41st Annual Franchise 500 ranking. The ranking is based on research of brands' cost, fees, size, growth, support, and financial strength.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2020-02-07. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/wild-birds-unlimited-lands-a-spot-on-entrepreneurs-41st-annual-franchise-500-ranking-2712228).*

## Story

Entrepreneur released its annual Franchise 500 ranking for 2020, and Wild Birds Unlimited landed a spot at #137. For more than four decades, Entrepreneur has been releasing yearly franchise reports from extensive research that rank the top 500 brands for the upcoming year. Over 1,000 brands apply to make this list each year and Wild Birds as a franchise was determined as #137

Entrepreneur creates its annual ranking by researching brands’ cost & fees, size & growth, support, brand strength and financial strength & stability. Each franchise is then given a cumulative score based on an analysis of more than 150 data points, and the 500 franchises with the highest cumulative scores create the list.

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Retail (sector)
- Entrepreneur (publication)
- franchise ranking (topic)
- Wild Birds Unlimited (company)
- annual report (topic)
- brand strength (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/wild-birds-unlimited-lands-a-spot-on-entrepreneurs-41st-annual-franchise-500-ranking-2712228). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/d23052bf-3a2e-4ead-a05a-2e36681122de).