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cover story: PAINT CORPS
Veteran Service Brands adds new recruit to its growing army of brand names PAINT CORPS is the newest addition to Veteran Service Brands, joining G-FORCE, MACH ONE and FIELD OPS in the exclusively veteran-owned family of businesses.
The “rookie” of Veteran Service Brands, PAINT CORPS, offers interior and exterior painting and high-end cabinet refinishing. Meanwhile, G-FORCE provides pavement marking services, MACH ONE installs epoxy floors, and FIELD OPS focuses on athletic field marking.
Although PAINT CORPS may be the newest member of the Veteran Service Brands family, it’s actually been operating for five years, owner and founder Burgess Perry said during a recent interview with Franchising USA magazine from the franchise’s headquarters in Tampa, Florida. The company just recently started franchising and is in the process of finding and onboarding its first franchise owners.
Getting started An active duty member of the military for 10 years – first as a medic and then a nurse – Perry’s father owned a painting business when the franchise owner was a teenager, which he credits as giving him the idea of starting a painting business. He retired from the military in 2016 and in March of 2017, he started a local painting company in Tampa, which he called American Veteran Painting. It started with just him painting and his first customer was his neighbor across the street. While Perry got the job done on his own, he admitted that it was not done in the most efficient manner. But, that first house gave him a plethora of lessons on both how to paint a house and how to run a business.
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