The UK Franchise Growth Index
SGR
SGR, or Specialist Glass Repairs, is a mobile repair franchise serving vehicle owners and commercial customers. Its proposition focuses on repairing glass and related surfaces, rather than operating as a general replacement glazing business. The UK franchise offer forms part of a wider network with activity in both the UK and United States.
The Five Fibre score measures this network against Twine Growth's Five Fibre Framework™ using the information available at the assessment date. It is not an endorsement, a financial recommendation or a recommendation to purchase a franchise.
About the network
More about SGR.
The principal services advertised are windscreen repair, headlight restoration and removal of scratches from glass, with acrylic repair also represented in the wider brand material. Work is taken to customers at places such as homes, workplaces, dealerships and fleet depots. The format uses a van as the operational base and does not require a conventional retail showroom.
A franchisee develops a business within a protected territory, combining private customer work with local commercial relationships. The British Franchise Association profile also describes opportunities connected with the network's national automotive glass and contract relationships. Those relationships provide a route to work, but should not be interpreted as a guaranteed volume of jobs for every territory.
The published opportunity states that previous industry experience is not required. Technical preparation is arranged as part of the recruitment and launch process, while the network describes face to face training and practical coaching followed by remote assistance. Equipment and specialist materials form part of the operating infrastructure, supported by the brand's repair methods and technical knowledge.
The owner is expected to build the local business actively, maintain customer relationships and deliver the service to the required standard. Published support includes operating systems, marketing resources, technical advice and contact with other operators. The model combines practical repair skills with sales and territory development, rather than being presented as a passive investment or occasional hobby business.
At a glance
SGR at a glance.
- Industry
- Automotive
- Franchise category
- Mobile Automotive
- Sub industry
- Mobile Windscreen Repair
- Founded
- 1992
- Headquarters
- Warwickshire
- BFA member
- Yes
- UK origin
- Yes
- Recruitment status
- Active
Investment
Franchise investment.
- Management franchise
- Yes
- Home based
- Yes
- Mobile
- Yes
- Executive franchise
- Yes
Investment figures change. Confirm current requirements directly with the franchise network before making any decision.
Five Fibre assessment
How the foundations score.
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Assess: Established UK operators, a defined hands-on role and national commercial relationships support readiness. Forecast turnover and satisfaction recognition are not representative net owner profit evidence.
- Profitable core business: Partially, 2.5/5. The UK model has operated for more than a decade and named franchisees describe established trading. No representative verified actual core or unit net profitability was located.
- Operates for 30 days without daily founder input: Partially, 2.5/5. Online learning, senior trainers and broader network support reduce reliance on one person. A successful thirty-day period without daily founder involvement was not publicly demonstrated.
- Ideal franchise owner defined: Yes, 3/3. The current offer explicitly seeks practical, commercially motivated owner-operators comfortable with customers and local business development. It distinguishes active ownership from passive or casual part-time investment.
- Realistic owner money: Partially, 2/4. Named owners describe successful businesses and the offer models possible turnover. Public forecast figures and awards do not disclose representative actual earnings after vehicle, travel, fees, marketing, administration and owner labour.
- Different opportunity: Yes, 3/3. A repair-only specialist service, protected mobile territory and access to national commercial relationships create a differentiated proposition relative to replacement-led glass businesses.
Build: Operating and marketing manuals, online learning, practical training and territory accompaniment provide substantive infrastructure. One complete central owner hub remains partly verified.
- Documented operating playbook: Yes, 5/5. The investment package explicitly includes operations and marketing manuals. A specific Dartford territory listing corroborates turnkey manuals and technical and commercial guidance.
- Structured onboarding: Yes, 4/4. The current BFA profile describes online preparation, four days of practical training and a city setup week. A senior trainer works in the new owner’s territory rather than only teaching classroom techniques.
- Documented brand experience: Yes, 4/4. The published ownership route asks candidates to review brand standards, and training covers customer protocols and communication expectations. These are explicit documented consistency provisions.
- One central resource location: Partially, 1.5/3. The learning platform and secure operational resources provide central access to guidance and tools. Public evidence does not establish one comprehensive location containing every document, template and business system.
- Launch without constant founder involvement: Yes, 4/4. Senior trainer accompaniment, recurring learning and technical support provide a launch route beyond constantly asking the founder. Named owner testimony corroborates practical preparation and ongoing support.
Launch: A dedicated ownership proposition and a staged due-diligence route support recruitment readiness. A current costed campaign plan remains private.
- Clear franchise proposition: Yes, 5/5. The proposition explains a mobile repair-only territory, owner responsibilities, entry package and support. Vehicle and livery exclusions must be added to a realistic startup budget.
- Targeted applicant attraction: Yes, 4/4. The opportunity addresses motivated hands-on operators with customer and relationship-building skills. Technical experience is not essential because training is supplied.
- Ownership enquiry journey: Yes, 4/4. The indexed current route outlines information review, personal details, due diligence, confidentiality, agreement review, training planning and award. Direct call-booking and sector enquiry routes are available.
- Pre-acceptance discovery: Yes, 4/4. The route explicitly invites discussion of goals, review of standards and existing-owner conversations before agreement. This supports mutual discovery rather than immediate acceptance on payment.
- Ownership go-to-market plan: Partially, 1.5/3. Directory promotion, territory listings and an evidence centre demonstrate market activity. No current costed ownership campaign with channel targets and recruitment accountability was publicly disclosed.
Grow: Specific recruitment territories demonstrate geographic intent. Monthly qualified applicant flow, source quality, conversion and consistent recruitment delegation were not publicly established.
- Monthly ownership enquiries: No public verification, 0/5. No credible monthly qualified ownership enquiry series was found. National-account customer work and active territory advertisements do not establish monthly franchise applicant consistency.
- Enquiry sources and best prospects: No public verification, 0/4. Enquiry and call-booking routes exist, but ownership source tracking linked to prospect quality was not publicly verified. Ordinary website analytics cannot substitute for that evidence.
- Ownership conversion: No public verification, 0/4. No verified ownership enquiry-to-agreement or enquiry-to-trading conversion rate was located. Repair orders, owner satisfaction and customer reviews answer different questions.
- Next territories: Yes, 3/3. Sector recruitment material names target areas, and specific Dartford/Bromley and Falkirk opportunities identify defined territories. These provide clearer geographic intent than a general nationwide ambition.
- Consistent recruitment without founder-driven conversations: No public verification, 0/4. Public material and owner accounts emphasise Phil as a central contact. No substantive named delegated recruitment role or repeatable non-founder ownership conversation process was established.
Amplify: National-account opportunities, local digital marketing and city setup help owners acquire customers. Universal online coverage and complete owner-level commercial attribution remain less visible.
- Local customer acquisition support: Yes, 5/5. The package combines local business-development coaching, marketing manuals and digital promotion with applicable national-account introductions. These are specific routes to customer work.
- Every owner represented online: Partially, 2/4. The North Wales and Chester owner has a local service website with direct contacts, and wider location visibility exists. Every active UK owner’s complete current online coverage was not independently reconciled.
- Continuing local marketing plan: Partially, 2/4. Ongoing marketing support, business-development methods and repeat fleet work extend beyond launch. A specific continuing local plan with owner responsibilities, timing and budgets was not publicly demonstrated.
- Individual owner enquiry and performance tracking: Partially, 1.5/3. Visits and repairs are digitally recorded with service details and photographic evidence. Full owner-level enquiry-source, sales conversion and financial-performance attribution was not publicly demonstrated.
- Customers beyond personal networks: Yes, 4/4. Local search and advertising, fleet prospecting and national contract opportunities provide customer channels beyond personal introductions and founder relationships.
Five Fibre score: 68/100. Assess 13/20, Build 18.5/20, Launch 18.5/20, Grow 3/20, Amplify 14.5/20.
SGR scores 68/100, within the Growth Ready band. The public evidence is strongest for Build and Launch, with specific manuals, staged training, territory accompaniment and a due-diligence route. Grow is materially less evidenced because public information does not establish the recruitment pipeline’s monthly consistency, quality, conversion or delegation. The first three priorities are Grow, Assess and Amplify.
This assessment concerns the UK Specialist Glass Repairs network, not an unrelated organisation using the SGR initials or a US investment package. Current recruitment describes a mobile, repair-only business serving private motorists and commercial customers, with protected territories and specialist techniques. Older pages include SuperGlass references and UK master-franchise history. Those historic relationships and global or postcode counts are not treated as proof of the current number of separate UK franchise owners.
The practical model combines locally developed customer relationships with opportunities arising from national automotive glass and contract networks. That distinction matters. A national relationship can create useful work, but it does not mean a guaranteed volume or income for every new owner. Local territory suitability, route efficiency, technical capacity and active selling still affect outcomes. The current BFA profile explicitly presents this as an owner-operated business rather than passive income.
- Assess priority: distinguish commercial potential from actual net earnings. The investment page illustrates six repairs a day at an average £45 over forty-eight five-day weeks, producing £64,800 annual turnover. That is a model, not a verified typical owner account. The owner must still cover vehicle, fuel, insurance, travel time, tools, royalties, marketing, administration and their own labour. Protected geography and low premises costs can help, but do not prove enough paid work at sufficient contribution.
- Build priority: retain the connection between instruction and real customer work. Explicit operations and marketing manuals, modular online knowledge, practical technical training and territory accompaniment provide meaningful replication infrastructure. The current BFA description specifies four technical days and a city setup week; a separate sector guide gives a different older five-day and three-day pattern. Both support structured induction, but the current schedule should be confirmed rather than combining them into a new invented duration. Secure systems and a learning platform are not automatically one complete resource hub.
- Launch priority: make the mutual decision route consistently accessible. Indexed franchise information describes an initial review and goals discussion, personal details, due diligence, confidentiality, agreement review and training preparation before award. Existing-owner conversations are encouraged. These are meaningful steps for checking suitability. Public statements about BFA membership or agreement scrutiny should not be interpreted as a guarantee of legal protection or financial success. Candidates still need the actual current commercial terms and appropriate independent scrutiny.
- Grow priority: connect defined territory opportunities to suitable-owner recruitment. Public listings name areas where coverage is sought, including specific Dartford/Bromley and Falkirk opportunities. National customer demand may inform those choices, but is distinct from a consistent flow of qualified ownership applicants. Record each applicant’s source, practical suitability, finances, geography and progress through discovery, agreement and trading. Public material centres heavily on Phil’s involvement, so the next evidence needed is who can reliably continue recruitment conversations when he is unavailable.
- Amplify priority: connect local visibility and national work allocation to sustainable owner revenue. City setup includes help identifying commercial prospects, making introductions and establishing applicable work. The North Wales and Chester website provides an example of local contacts, repair services and customer reviews. It is evidence of local presence for that operator, not proof of identical coverage across all owners. Track incoming enquiries, response, authorised repairs, route efficiency, repeat fleet work and contribution at each owner level.
The advertised £14,500 plus VAT entry package is not a universal complete cash requirement. The investment page excludes the vehicle and compulsory standard livery and states an eight per cent royalty on invoiced turnover. Current terms must be confirmed for the particular opportunity. Dartford’s listing shows £64,000 turnover and £44,000 net profit fields, but also explicitly calls the offer a new territory and describes projections. Those figures are therefore not credited as actual historic accounts of an established resale, despite the directory’s resale label.
The BFA profile and the brand’s evidence centre describe three consecutive WorkBuzz five-star satisfaction awards in 2024, 2025 and 2026. This is relevant owner-experience evidence, with the limitation that the brand’s presentation is not the underlying complete survey dataset. Satisfaction recognition is not representative profit verification and is not awarded points in unrelated questions about enquiry conversion. Search-rendered zero counters on the evidence centre are also not interpreted as real zero responses or zero satisfaction.
Several current SGR web routes returned limited page-directory text through the research interface, whereas indexed content exposed fuller public information. That is a retrieval limitation, not proof the user-facing site or private systems are broken. The assessment cross-checks the independent BFA directory, dated owner account, national recruitment profiles and a live local service site rather than inferring missing systems from the rendering limitation. No administrative pages, private accounts or forms were accessed or submitted.
The commercial opportunity is to make the existing technical and local-customer support more visible alongside actual recruitment and owner economics. Controlled expansion is useful when incoming owners have enough viable work and capacity to deliver it. More territories sold, stronger publicity or an award count alone would not establish that outcome.
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Sources
Research sources.
17 public sources used for this profile
- https://sgrfranchise.com/investment
- https://sgrfranchise.com/franchise-info
- https://sgrfranchise.com/franchiseinfo?region=uk
- https://sgrfranchise.com/Training
- https://sgrfranchise.com/territories
- https://www.thebfa.org/franchisors/specialist-glass-repairs-sgr/
- https://www.thebfa.org/case-studies/graham-cox-sgr-east-midlands/
- https://www.franchisedirect.co.uk/automotive-franchises/specialist-glass-repairs/
- https://www.franchisedirect.co.uk/franchise-information/specialist-glass-repair-franchise
- https://uk.businessesforsale.com/uk/award-winning-mobile-glass-repair-franchise-in-dartford.aspx
- https://uk.businessesforsale.com/uk/award-winning-mobile-glass-repair-franchise-falkirk.aspx
- https://sgruk.co.uk/locations
- https://www.sgrnorthwales.co.uk/
- https://sgrfranchiseexcellence.com/franchisee-satisfaction/awards
- https://sgrfranchiseexcellence.com/franchisee-satisfaction/methodology
- https://uk.linkedin.com/in/sgruk
- https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08818950
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