If you are looking for information on the Stained Glass Overlay franchise business opportunity, Stained Glass franchises or Stained Glass Overlay franchising, then you have come to the right place.
Stained Glass Overlay is an international franchise company based in Orange California. Founded in 1974, the company began franchising its multi-patented designer glass process in 1981. Stained Glass Overlay has over 150 locations in the United States and Canada, and strong representation in 35 other countries around the world, including the United Kingdom, Kuwait, Australia, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, United Arab Emirates, Japan, Malaysia, Romania, Portugal, Morocco, Madagascar, and Russia. We are a world leader in the custom architectural decorative glass sector.
We are a full service architectural decorative glass provider. We will provide any style of decorative glass panels for home, business, or religious institution. We offer design service, finished product fabrication, as well as installation. Custom design is a specialty of ours! We will work closely with you from first design consultation all the way to finished product installation.
Our studios offer products made using our Overlay decorative glass process as well as a complete line of related architectural decorative glass products.
Any individual, business, or institution with a need for decorative glass is a potential client. We are comfortable with any size of project - from very small to very large. Across the world, SGO franchisees employ well over 1400 people. So, for us, large jobs are not a problem. We have a remarkable reference list, and count over sixteen thousand individuals businesses, and religious institutions as our clients each year.
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