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Sea Love

Brand Summary

Sea Love - A Candle Bar and Boutique offers a unique fusion of retail, lifestyle and experiential. Guests enjoy scent-blending experiences where they make their own candles and diffusers, personalize labels, and shop a curated boutique of home décor and accessories. The model taps into the growing demand for experiential retail (not just buying a product but creating it) and pairs that with strong repeat purchase behavior, accessory add-ons and gifting occasions.

This franchise opportunity stands out because it offers broad appeal (millennials, women, gifting culture, team events, children, etc.), high-margin retail consumables, and it can be run with only one or two employees at a time. The candle bar and boutique model delivers multiple revenue streams: event bookings, retail purchases, repeat customers, online sales, wholesale opportunities and more - resulting in a business with depth and diversity of income.

From an operational standpoint, Sea Love is structured for scalability and strong unit economics. Franchisees benefit from strong mark-up potential on candle bar services and boutique items, and a leisure-oriented setting that drives impulse and “social outing” behavior. This luxury brand emphasizes clean, high-quality products (non-toxic wax, coastal aesthetic) which helps in charging premium prices and building customer loyalty.

Sea Love is easy to market (visually compelling), scalable (multi-unit potential), and enjoys lifestyle alignment (fun, community-centric, brand-forward) which resonates with a wide range of prospects - from first-time owners to seasoned multi-unit operators. This is a low investment for a brick & mortar business and the operational complexity is much lower than full-scale retail and restaurant concepts. New franchisees are quickly catching up to the corporate location which did over $455k with a 40% net margin (adjusted for royalties and other fees) in 2024.

Brand Superpowers

Low Investment

Very High Margins

Multiple Revenue Streams

Minimal staffing

*THE NUMBERS

$109,000 - $292,250 Investment Range

$455,911 Total Gross Sales

$183,792 - 40.3% Direct Gross Profit Less Disclosed Expenses

6 Royalty

Brand Fund

$200,000 Financial Requirements

Founder	Barry and Stacy Miller
Home Office Location	Kennebunkport ME
Company Founded	2021
Began Franchising	2022
Industry	Retail and Experiential
Industry Size	$166B for US Candle Industry
Veteran Discount	10%
Group Health Insurance	No

Founder	Barry and Stacy Miller
Home Office Location	Kennebunkport ME
Company Founded	2021
Began Franchising	2022
Industry	Retail and Experiential
Industry Size	$166B for US Candle Industry
Veteran Discount	10%
Group Health Insurance	No

Company Units Open	1
Franchise Units Awarded All Time	20
Franchise Units Awarded Last 12 Months	5
Franchise Units Open	14
Number of franchisees	17

Desire to scale / multi-unit ownership
Owner Operator Preferred
Values Outstanding Customer Service
Marketing Experience Preferred
Community Centric
Outgoing

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

DO THEY OFFER FINANCING TO HELP BUY THE FRANCHISE?

3rd party

WHAT KIND OF TECHNOLOGY DO THEY HAVE IN PLACE?

Scheduling, CRM, Inventory Management and Billing

DO THEY OFFER FLEXIBLE OWNERSHIP?

Yes

DO THEY OFFER A DISCOUNT TO VETERANS?

10%

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