A Message From Summit Property Group CEO Tom Sanderson

This Summit Property Group Canada video is a personal two-minute follow-up from founder and CEO Tom Sanderson directly to prospective franchise candidates. The framing is candid: Tom uses the time to walk through the core values that shaped Summit and the operating evidence that backs the franchise pitch, rather than running a generic brand reel. Tom describes the founding values clearly. Summit was built to provide opportunities for people to build sustainable income-driven businesses with real growth potential, and to create a franchise system that is in demand and duplicable across markets. The operating commitment Summit makes to franchisee partners is to teach them how to capture accounts and to leverage twenty years of accumulated experience through proven technologies and marketing platforms. The operating evidence is presented in concrete numbers. Summit's client retention rate runs above ninety percent. Customers stay with Summit for an average of seven years. Summit's flagship operation in Alberta generates well over six million dollars in revenue annually — and Tom adds a key detail prospective franchisees should understand: that revenue is achieved by serving seventeen customers through multiple contracts. The economic implication is significant: Summit's model is built on deep, multi-service relationships with a small number of high-value accounts rather than thin, transactional service work spread across many low-value clients. The customer-side proposition is described as one partner, one call. Summit offers over twenty business service solutions under a single umbrella, ensuring that customers can establish one relationship and grow it over time as additional profit centers emerge — and giving franchisees a uniquely positioned way to capture them. Tom also notes Summit's franchise system is the only Canadian owner-operated franchise in this space. Tom closes with a personal note. He started Summit in his forties, after twenty years of business growth that had left him broke and broken — and his stated legacy now is to partner with a select few candidates who want to make a difference and are prepared to work to build their own legacy through a locally owned Summit franchise. The next step is the in-person Discovery day. This watch page is part of the Summit Property Group Canada content series on Franchise Direct Canada.