Express Employment Professionals

9701 Boardwalk Blvd. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73162

[email protected]

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Express Services, Inc. is a Colorado corporation with their principal place of business at 9701 Boardwalk Blvd., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73162. They incorporated as Express Temporary Help Service, Inc. on May 26, 1983, in the State of Colorado. On July 14, 1983, they changed their name to Express Temporary Services, Inc., which later changed to Express Services, Inc. on February 4, 1985.

We offer to enter into a franchise agreement (the “Franchise Agreement”) with qualified entities or persons (“You” or “Your”) that wish to establish and operate an Express Employment Professionals Business. In this Disclosure Document, “You” means the individual or legal entity with whom We enter into a Franchise Agreement. The term “You” also refers to the direct and indirect owners of a corporation, partnership, limited liability company, or limited liability partnership that signs a Franchise Agreement as the “franchisee.” If the franchisee is a corporation, partnership, limited liability company, or limited liability partnership, We will require all owners, shareholders, partners, or members, who have a direct or indirect beneficial interest of more than 5%, to personally sign the guarantee provision in the Franchise Agreement guaranteeing the legal entity’s obligation under the Franchise Agreement. Furthermore, during the term of the Franchise Agreement, and any renewal, We require the principal owner to maintain at least a 51% ownership interest. Under the Franchise Agreement, We will grant You the right and license (the “Franchise”) to use the name Express Employment Professionals and its variations that We approve in writing, and to use other associated names, trade names, trademarks, copyrights, insignia, and service marks as provided for in the Franchise Agreement, and attached to the Franchise Agreement as Exhibit A (the “Proprietary Marks”). The Franchise granted is only and exclusively for the operation of an Express Employment Professionals Business within a boundary line described in the Franchise Agreement (the “Territory”), and for a term of 5 years. You can only operate the Express Employment Professionals Business at and from the location identified in the Franchise Agreement. You may, however, during the term of the Franchise Agreement, open branch offices within the boundary line of Your Territory (“Branch Office”). For each Branch Office, You must enter into a Branch Office Addendum, a form of which is attached to the Franchise Agreement as Exhibit D. In addition, You may also set up recruiting stations (“Recruiting Stations”) within the boundary line of Your Territory by signing a Recruiting Station Addendum, which is attached to the Franchise Agreement as Exhibit E. The Recruiting Stations are temporary in nature. They are set up to supplement Your Express Employment Professionals Business’s recruiting efforts under circumstances such as special skill or worker shortage, special client demands or requirements, seasonal demand or other temporary conditions. You are not allowed to display any signage containing the Proprietary Marks at Your Recruiting Station without Our specific prior written approval. Express has designated some territories, and may designate additional territories, generally located in major metropolitan areas and comprised of higher levels of professional staffing business, as “Professional Staffing Model Markets”. Express has designed a Professional Staffing Model franchise operation to serve these Professional Staffing Model Markets. The Professional Staffing Model is similar to the Traditional Model, but differs from the Traditional Model with respect to training and staffing requirements. The training program for the Professional Staffing Model focuses on sales, recruiting and servicing techniques specific to professional level staffing. Additionally, We require Franchisees operating under the Professional Staffing Model to employ additional staff in compliance with Our minimum staffing requirements. Finally, Franchisees to who We grant a Professional Staffing Model should generally anticipate higher operating costs, partially attributable to operating in a major metropolitan market. There are two kinds of services offered by the Express Employment Professionals Businesses: Flexible Staffing – Temporary/Contract Staffing (“Flexible Staffing”), and Career Placement – Professional Search (“Career Placement”). Your Express Employment Professionals Business must offer Flexible Staffing services. The term “Associates” refer to the persons You send to the client business from the Flexible Staffing portion of the Express Employment Professionals Business. You will have the option, with Our approval, to operate the Career Placement portion of the Express Employment Professionals Business. You must operate the Express Employment Professionals Business in strict compliance with the system, procedures, methods, policies and requirements prescribed in the Manual (as defined below). We will make available to You one copy of the Manual.

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