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Business Description

We were incorporated in Delaware on February 2, 2011 Our principal business address (our U S headquarters) is 6615 Flanders Drive Suite B, San Diego, California 92121 We started granting Instant Imprints franchises in June 2011 We have not previously offered franchises in any other line of business We also are in the business of administering our franchise system If we have an agent in your state for service of process, we disclose that agent in Exhibit F Our parent is II Transatlantic, Inc (“IITI”), a Delaware corporation formed February 19, 2015 which shares our same principal business address IITI acquired both us and our affiliate (and former parent) lICA Inc, as wholly-owned subsidiaries on May 15, 2015 It does not offer franchises similar to your Center (as defined below) or any other line of business On December 6 of 2016, IITI acquired the Biz Card Xpress (BCX) franchise system with 16 operating locations BCX centers are similar in size to those of Instant Imprints IITI is in the process of converting the BCX franchisees to Instant Imprints IITI does not plan to offer franchises of BCX but will continue to operate the brand alongside Instant Imprints until the conversions are complete Our affiliate lICA Inc is an Ontario, Canada, corporation MCA Inc acquired a master franchise for Canada from Instant Imprints Franchising, Inc (described below) in 2007, and subsequently acquired the “System” from Instant Imprints Franchising, Inc, in May 2011 llCA Inc has offered franchises in Canada that are similar to the Instant Imprints franchise offered under this disclosure document, since 2011 MCA Inc.'s principal business address is 5230 South Service Rd, Burlington, ON, Canada L7L 5K2 It has not offered any franchises in any other line of business The first Instant Imprints Center was opened in San Diego, California in June 1992 by Instant Imprints, a sole proprietorship Instant Imprints operated that Instant Imprints Center, which was similar to the Center franchises offered under this disclosure document On March 2000 it was incorporated as Instant Imprints, Inc as a California corporation Our predecessor. Instant Imprints Franchising, Inc (“IIFI”) was incorporated under California law in October 2001 IIFI offered franchises from March 2002 to December 2010 On May 11, 2011, IIFI made an assignment for the benefit of creditors, assigning its assets (including the rights to the Instant Imprints Franchise System) to Instants Imprints Franchising LLC (“IIFI LLC”) On the same date, IIFI LLC sold those assets to lICA Inc MCA Inc has licensed to us the right to grant franchises and provide support and services to franchisees in the United States since 2011 Other than MCA Inc , we do not and have not in the past had any affiliates that offer franchises in any line of business or provide products or services to our franchisees

Prior Experience

Our parent is II Transatlantic, Inc (“IITI”), a Delaware corporation formed February 19, 2015 which shares our same principal business address IITI acquired both us and our affiliate (and former parent) lICA Inc, as wholly-owned subsidiaries on May 15, 2015 It does not offer franchises similar to your Center (as defined below) or any other line of business On December 6 of 2016, IITI acquired the Biz Card Xpress (BCX) franchise system with 16 operating locations BCX centers are similar in size to those of Instant Imprints IITI is in the process of converting the BCX franchisees to Instant Imprints IITI does not plan to offer franchises of BCX but will continue to operate the brand alongside Instant Imprints until the conversions are complete

Business Offered

We grant franchises for the right to own and operate a business specializing in providing visual communications services, including custom T-shirts, embroidery apparel, signage, print services and promotional products under the name Marks and our System (a “Instant Imprint Center”) under the terms of our standard Instant Imprints Franchise Agreement (a copy is attached in Exhibit B) You will service consumer and business customers by providing them with customized and decorated apparel (embroidered, screen printed, digitally printed, direct garment, or heat transfer products) digital wide format signs/banners, digital document services and advertising/promotional merchandise This will include specific items such as custom T-shirts, golf shirts, caps, jackets, denims, team and work uniforms, outerwear, towels, bags, aprons, photographic gifts, pens, mouse pads, mugs, magnetic signs, banners, full color posters, as well as logo reproduction and creative design services The Instant Imprints Center you will own and operate is referred to as a “Center” You will operate the Center under the Marks “Marks" mean means such service marks, trademarks, trade dress, trade names and all configurations and derivations, as may presently exist, or which may be modified, changed, or acquired by us or our affiliates, in connection with the operation of the business contemplated by the Franchise Agreement Marks currently include "Instant Imprints Your Image People" and “Instant Imprints” You will also operate the Center according to our System "System” includes copyrights, trade secrets, confidential information and know how, methods of creation, production and sale of embroidered and screen printed apparel, direct garment printing, heat transfer products, digital wide format signs/banners, digital document services and advertising/promotional merchandise using specialized and highly developed techniques This will include specific items such as T-shirts, golf shirts, caps, jackets, denims, team and work uniforms, outerwear, towels, bags, aprons, photographic gifts, pens, mouse pads, mugs, magnetic signs, banners, full color posters, as well as logo reproduction and creative design services Also included is the training, equipment, standards of quality and uniformity of products and services offered, marketing techniques, methods and techniques for financial controls, record keeping, billing and collection procedures and process, accounting and reporting, personnel management, sales marketing and advertising, and development materials There are 2 types of Instant Imprints Centers The “Growth” Instant Imprints Center is a smaller size store typically under 1,000 square feet (“Growth Center”) It can sell all of the same products as any other Instant Imprints Center, but it has a more limited in-house production capability due to a reduced amount of equipment An “Expanded Center” features a full complement of production capabilities It IS typically 1,200 - 1,600 square feet Ifyou already operate an Instant Imprints Center and you are in compliance under your existing Franchise Agreement, you can sign a new Franchise Agreement for a Growth Center and, your existing Instant Imprint Center will produce some of the products sold through your Growth Center Generally, you will operate an Expanded Center and 2 Growth Centers if you sign a Development Agreement described below The term “Instants Imprint Center” includes any size or type of Instant Imprints Centers including Expanded Centers, Growth Centers and what was previously referred to as Hub Centers, Spoke Centers, Standard Centers regardless of whether owned by us, our affiliates, or our franchisees Your primary customer base will be small to medium sized businesses, along with larger corporations, educational non-profits and various other types of organizations Your competitors include independent embroidery and screen-printing businesses, vinyl banner/sign shops, online websites, and certain catalog uniform and ad specialty companies and instant printing facilities operated by individual businesses and national and franchised locations

Initial Fees

The Franchise Establishment Fee is $39,950 and is due and payable when you enter into our Franchise Agreement (“Franchise Establishment Fee”) If you already own an existing printing business and want to convert (a “Conversion Franchisee”), the amount of the Franchise Establishment Fee is based on the level of annual revenue your existing business generated in the calendar year prior to signing the Franchise Agreement We offer a Veteran/First Responder Grant Program that provides special financial incentives to veterans of the U S Armed Forces and first responders—/ e police, firefighters, and emergency medical technicians (an EMT)—that meet the program qualifications and are not Conversion Franchisees If you qualify under the program, you receive a $10,000 discount off the Franchise Establishment Fee which then will be $29,950 You will pay us a $10,000 Opening Launch Program Deposit that we will spend to promote the launch of your Center If your Center is a transfer of an Instant Imprints Center, the Opening Launch Program Deposit IS only $5,000 You will pay us a deposit of $750 for the cost of attending the first convention You must purchase or lease an Equipment Package from us The Equipment Package includes the fixtures, furniture and the manufacturing equipment, computer hardware and software, inventory, supplies, signage, and shipping and handling and taxes The costs will depend on what type of Center you are planning on opening and operating Typically franchisees finance the Equipment Package over 5 years The range in the chart below includes the deposit and 3 months of payments You must pay us a training fee of $5,000 for the initial training and on-site assistance we will provide (“Training Fee”) Because the Training Fee is only paid for your first Center, it will never be charged for a Growth Center You will pay us a Design, Build out Coordination and Management Fee of $7,500 For this fee, we will assist in the design of the premises, coordination of the timing of the delivery and installation of the Items in the Equipment Package You are required to pay us $1,200 as a prepayment to cover the cost of having our preferred supplier of bookkeeping services provide the bookkeeping services to you for the first 6 months of operations After the initial 6 months, you are allowed to continue the program or use a different supplier All of the fees and costs described above are fully earned when paid and not refundable under any circumstances Development Agreement You will pay us a Development Fee is $90,000 which represents the Franchise Establishment Fees for the 3 Centers you will open and operate pursuant to the individual Franchise Agreements Under the Development Agreement you will open 1 Expanded Center and 2 Growth Centers Once you sign each Franchise Agreement, that portion of the Development Fee will represent payment in full of the Franchise Establishment Fee required under that Franchise Agreement The Development Fee is fully earned when paid and not refundable under any circumstances

Financing

We may, in our sole discretion provide financing of the Franchise Establishment Fee for the purchase of subsequent franchises by existing Instant Imprints franchisees which are in good standing under their existing Franchise Agreements In addition, if you sign an Area Representative Agreement (see separate Area Representative FDD) and wish to establish a Spec Center, we will finance the Franchise Establishment Fee You must execute the Promissory Note attached as Schedule D of the Franchise Agreement to this Disclosure Document We require you, your owners and their spouses to sign a Personal Guarantee and to provide us with a security interest in the Center's assets, whether owned now or acquired later, and in all additions, located at or arising from transactions related to the Center, all policies of insurance covering such assets and all proceeds thereof The Promissory Note may be prepaid without penalty at any time during the 4-year term If you default under this Note, or default under the Franchise Agreement and such default is not cured under the terms thereof, if any, the entire principal balance will immediately become due and payable (“acceleration") at our option Upon acceleration of the Promissory Note, interest will accrue on all unpaid amounts from the date of acceleration at a rate of 18% per annum or the maximum rate permitted by law, whichever is less, until the entire principal balance and all accrued but unpaid interest is paid We may also obtain court costs and attorneys' fees if a collection action is necessary You waive presentment, protest and demand, delinquency, notice of protest, demand and dishonor, and any other notice otherwise required to be given by law in connection with the delivery, acceptance, performance, default, enforcement or collection of the Promissory Note, and expressly agree that the Promissory Note, or any payment thereunder, may be extended or subordinated, without affecting your liability Other than as described above, we do not arrange financing from other sources It is not our practice or intent to sell, assign, or discount to a third party all or part of the financing arrangement We and our affiliates do not receive any consideration for placing financing with a lender

Franchisee Revenue and Profit

The FTC's Franchise Rule permits a franchisor to provide information about the actual or potential financial performance of its franchised and/or franchisor-owned outlets, if there is a reasonable basis for the information, and if the information is included in the disclosure document Financial performance information that differs from that included in Item 19 may be given only if (1) a franchisor provides the actual records of an existing outlet you are considering buying, or (2) a franchisor supplements the information provided in this Item 19, for example, by providing information about possible performance at a particular location or under particular circumstances Our financial performance representation consists of two parts Part I contains the actual 2017 and 2018 average and median annual gross sales of all franchised Instant Imprint Centers in operation during the entire calendar year Part II contains the actual 2018 operating results of the 30 United States Instant Imprint Centers that were in operation during the entire 2017 calendar year and that delivered financial reports to us “Gross Sales” includes all sales derived from the Instant Imprint Centers except for taxes All figures are based on Standard Centers Part I - Actual 2017 and 2018 Average Annual and Median Gross Sales of Certain Franchised Instant Imprint Centers The financial performance representations in this Part I contain the actual 2017 and 2018 average and median annual gross sales, by geographic location, of franchised Instant Imprint Centers that were open during the entire calendar year listed and that reported results to us for all 12 months of that calendar year Outlets that were not in operation for the entire calendar year or from whom we do not have a full year of data to report have been excluded from the financial performance representation because their partial year performance is not indicative of the performance we would reasonably expect to see over an entire calendar year Table 1 provides the average annual gross sales for United States-based Instant Imprint Centers open for the entire calendar year listed Table 1 provides the results of 23 outlets for 2017 and 30 outlets for 2018 The 2017 outlets reported represent approximately 74% of the 31 United States based franchised outlets opened as of December 31, 2017, and the 2018 outlets reported represent approximately 86% of the 36 United States-based outlets operating as of December 31,2018 Table 2 provides the average annual gross sales for Canadian-based Instant Imprint Centers open and operating for the entire calendar year listed Table 2 provides the results of 20 outlets for 2017 and of 20 outlets for 2018 The 2017 outlets reported represent approximately 91% of the 22 Canadian-based outlets operating as of December 31, 2017, and the 2018 outlets operating reported represent approximately 91 % of the 22 Canadian-based franchised outlets operating as of December We include both United States-based and Canadian-based outlets because the mix of services offered by most of the Canadian Instant imprint Centers is more closely aligned with the mix of services that a new franchisee in the United States will experience based on the current System To properly illustrate this difference, there are 2 pie charts that show the sales mix by categories 2018 for the 2018 calendar year The first pie chart is the US Sales Mix in US Dollars and the second pie chart IS the Canadian Sales Mix in Canadian Dollars Part II - Actual 2017 and 2018 Operating Results of Certain Unit States-Based Franchised Instant Imprint Centers The financial performance representation in this Part II contains the actual operating results of the United States-based franchised only Instant Imprint Centers that delivered financial reports to us during the 2017 Calendar Year and the 2018 Calendar Year These results are calculated using a trailing 12 months tracking system, and will differ from the results in Part I (above) Both the data sets listed below are sorted based on franchisee owned outlets Owner's Discretionary Income SSTR which IS Sales Subject to Royalties means the entire amount of actual sales, whether for cash, credit or otherwise, of all sales of products and services at or in connection with the franchised business and all other receipts from all business conducted at or originating from the Center premises, including proceeds from any business interruption insurance Owner's Discretionary Income means SSTR less Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) less operating expenses is the amount of money that is left over from operations for the owner to use at their discretion Gross Margins mean SSTR minus its cost of goods sold (COGS), divided by total SSTR, expressed as a percentage Royalties have already been deducted in order to,determine the Owner Discretionary Income Table 1 includes the financial performance results for the year 2018 These 16 outlets represent 53% of the 30 total United States-based franchised outlets open for business during the entire 2018 Table 2 includes the financial performance results for the year 2017 These 12 outlets represent 52% of the 23 total United States-based franchised outlets open for business during the entire 2017 These results have not been audited Not all franchised outlets reported financial results to us as some centers that were opened before 2011 did not have a requirement to report financials to us Locations opened after 2011 and those that voluntarily report their financials to us on a monthly basis We have excluded Canadian-based Instant Imprint Centers because the costs of doing business in Canada may be materially different than the costs we expect a typical US-based franchisee to experience Some outlets have earned this amount assurance that you'll earn as much Your individual results may differ There is no These statements have not been audited, and may not be based on generally accepted accounting principles The actual average gross sales figures do not reflect the costs of sales, operating expenses or other costs or expenses that must be deducted from revenue to obtain net income or profit, You should conduct an independent investigation of the costs and expenses you may incur in operating your Center Franchisees and former franchisees listed in this disclosure document may be one source of this information Written substantiation for the financial performance representation will be made available to prospective franchisee upon reasonable request Other than the preceding financial performance representation, we do not make any financial performance representations We also do not authorize our employees or representatives to make any such representations, either orally or in writing If you are purchasing an existing outlet, however, we may provide you with the actual records of that outlet If you receive any other financial performance information or projections of your future income, you should report it to the franchisor's management by contacting Ralph Askar, President and CEO at 6615 Flanders Drive, Suite B, San Diego, California 92121, 858-642-4848, the Federal Trade Commission, and the appropriate state regulatory agencies