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Episode: Americas Swimming Pool Company Meets with Franchise Interviews
Description: Stewart Vernon launched Americas Swimming Pool Company, at the young age of 22, after seeing a void in the fragmented and unprofessional pool service industry. He invested a few thousand dollars to purchase service equipment and a truck, and got to work as a single-owner operator. In just the first four years of business, Vernon doubled annual sales every year, reaching $1 million in revenue by 2005, at age 25. At this point he knew he had something and decided to launch the company as a franchise in 2006. Today the company has 56 locations and services over 100 cities, managing over 40 million gallons of water per...