Premier Martial Arts

9202 S. Northshore DriveKnoxville, Tennessee 37922

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Premier Franchising Group, LLC is a Tennessee limited liability company formed on January 25, 2018 and our principal business address is 9202 S. Northshore Dr., Knoxville, TN 37922. They began to informally offer the PMA Studio franchises in April 2018 and began formally offering the PMA Studio franchises for PMA Studios as of July 31, 2018.

Through the expenditure of considerable time and effort, our predecessor, Mr Van Over, and we have developed a distinctive system for the development and operation of “PMA Studios” PMA Studios are martial arts, self-defense Martial Arts and character building facilities, designed to provide an affordable investment and a rewarding ownership experience, as well as world class mixed martial arts, self-defense. Martial Arts and character building products and services PMA Studios offer the Products and Services we authorize and approve and utilizing the Marks, Copyrights and System Unlike our predecessor's (PMAl's) Premier Martial Arts Schools (the Licensed PMA Schools), which ranged up to 10,000 sq feet, the PMA Studios are designed to require only 1,200 to 1,600 sq feet and have a more defined and consistent product and service offering and branding PMA Studios memberships are offered to primarily those seeking Martial Arts, self-defense, mixed martial arts and character building across a broad range of ages but focus on those between the ages of 5 and 12 Our mission is for the PMA Studios provide a welcoming and rewarding group, personal, semi-private, private and personal training, mixed martial arts. Martial Arts and social experience As of December 31, 2018, there were a total of 9 Licensed PMA Schools in the United States operated by third parties, 14 Licensed PMA Schools operating outside of the United States operated by third parties, and 0 Licensed PMA Schools operating in the United States that are owned by our affiliates Our affiliate also acquired another Licensed PMA School m early 2018 and has converted it to a PMA Studio format Of the 5 Licensed PMA Schools owned by our affiliate during 2018, all of them are or have converted to our “PMA Studios” concept PMAI no longer offers the Licensed PMA School concept We now only offer the PMA Studio concept as a franchise option As of April 11, 2019, there were 60 open franchised PMA Studios and 9 open Licensed PMA Schools Our affiliates own 5 company owned PMA Studios References in this Disclosure Document to the PMA Studio offered to you means a PMA Studio and not a Licensed PMA School Each PMA Studio also offers limited retail space for sale of equipment, accessories and certain drink and nutritional supplements And, in keeping with our philosophy of adapting to meet the wants and needs of our members, we may allow some to offer limited ancillary services But, any ^ancillary services or the like must be approved by us PMA Studios use our System Copyrights and Marks, and must only offer, sell products, services and accessones we designate or approve (the “Products and Services”) Each PMA Studio operates only from a specified location that we designate (the “Site”) To offer the Products and Services, PMA Studios operate using distinctive business formats, methods, workouts, lessons, training regimens, procedures, designs, layouts, signs, product and service offerings, standards, specifications, and System Standards, all of which we may improve, further develop or otherwise modify from time-to-time (the “System”) Our Manuals and other publications of our System Standards will define^in more detail our System Standards, which will include, among others, the layout of the PMA Studios, number of personnel needed, types of Products or Services offered, amount of inventoiy carried and the like To maintain and promote our brand and our company mission, we use, promote and license certain trademarks, service marks arid other commercial symbols to identify our franchise system, the Products and Services and in the operation of PMA Studios, including the trade and service marks “Premier Martial Arts®” (word and design), and other associated logos, designs, symbols and trade dress, which have gained and continue to gain public acceptance and goodwill, and we may create, use and license additional trademarks, service marks and commercial symbols in conjunction with the operation of PMA Studios (collectively, the “Marks”) We also use, promote and license in the operation of PMA Studios certain information capable of being rendered into tangible form that we claim as our Copyrights, including spreadsheets, forms, marketing materials, labels, manuals, pricing lists, vendor lists, menus, advertisements, our website, and any other written materials, marketing matenals, advertisements or slogans (including the look, compilation, feel and content of them) (collectively, the “Copyrights”) The existing Licensed PMA Schools also use vanous aspects of the Marks, Copyrights and System To be eligible to be granted a PMA Studio franchise, you must meet our qualifications, demonstrate that you meet our brand values of community involvement, and empowering our members' through Martial Arts, and be willing to undertake the investment and effort to embrace our brand values If we agree to grant to you a franchise, you must sign and deliver to us our form of “Franchise Agreement” attached as Exhibit “C” to this Franchise Disclosure Document If you are a corporation, partnership or other entity, each of your owners (and spouses) must sign our "Principal Owners Guaranty" (“POG”), guaranteeing your performance and binding themselves individually to provisions of the Franchise Agreement A copy of our Principal Owners Guaranty is attached as Exhibit “H” Also, if you are a sole proprietorship and your mantal assets are used to qualify for our financial requirements, your spouse must sign the POG And, if you are a trust, we may require the trustee and beneficianes of the trust to sign the POG