Miscellaneous Retail Businesses

GNC

Pittsburgh, PA · Founded 1935 · GNCX

GNC Holdings, LLC operates GNC retail stores that offer for sale vitamin and mineral supplements under the 'GNC' brand and other proprietary brands, along with sports nutrition products, herbs, health foods, beauty and miscellaneous healthcare products, diet products, physical fitness products, specialty workout apparel, health-management products, and related products.

Read the 2026 FDD ↗www.gncfranchising.com ↗

2026 Franchise 500

Unranked

2,140

units (2024)

—

year over year

Units by Year

2,300

2022

2,305

2023

2,140

2024

Total outlets at year end, from FDD Item 20.

The Investment

Initial investment

$32,000 – $506,542

FDD Item 7

Franchise fee

$20,000

FDD Item 5

Ad fund

FDD Item 6

Financial performance

Yes

FDD Item 19 disclosure

Royalty

6% of total gross sales

Leadership

Yichen Zang
Director
Hans Allegaert
Director
Michael Costello
Chief Executive Officer
Oded Shein
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
Gregory Guinto
Senior Vice President & General Counsel
Cheri Mullen
Senior Vice President, Chief Global Franchise & Wholesale Officer
Edmund L. Noonan, III
Vice President, Real Estate, Facilities & Construction
Sarah Peters
Senior Director, Franchising
Timothy Palma
Director, Market Development
Sharon Z. Knox
Manager, Market Development

On File

FDD years

2026 2025 2022 2020

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Franchisee records

700

Current roster rows

Signed, not open

FDD Item 20, Table 5

Franchising for

16 yrs

Franchise Disclosure Documents

PDFGNC FDD 2026Most recent · opens in a new tab PDFGNC FDD 2025Opens in a new tab PDFGNC FDD 2022Opens in a new tab PDFGNC FDD 2020Opens in a new tab

Units by Year

The Investment

Leadership

On File

Franchise Disclosure Documents

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