Wedding Styling Business Franchise In Gloucester For Sale

Business description

An exciting opportunity has arisen to acquire an established Ambience Venue Styling franchise in a prime location in Gloucester. The current franchisee has built a successful business since acquiring the franchise as a new start territory in September 2007. Due to the owner’s fmaily commitments, this well established franchise in a lucrative and sought after region of the UK has become available on the market.

Ambience Venue Styling (Gloucester) has a strong reputation in the area with excellent working relationships with many of the regions wedding venues. The owner has also secured sole supplier and preferred supplier status with leading venues in the territory.

During the last three years the business has been well managed and maintained to a level to suit the current franchisee’s other commitments. The business offers flexibility with the potential to grow and increase revenue or to continue to trade at its current level on a part time basis.

The incoming franchisee will inherit confirmed bookings, a healthy sales pipeline, the opportunity to attend opening evenings and wedding fairs due to the established relationships already built plus the outgoing owner's stock investment. The new owner of the business will also become part of the UK’s leading wedding franchise and benefit from an exclusive territory, training, master franchisor support plus a number 1 ranking website on Google. In addition, they will benefit from a personalised web page which generates significant leads. The web site and page are hosted and maintained by Ambience Head Office who also carry out national PR and marketing on behalf of the franchise network.

THE VENUE STYLING INDUSTRY

Venue styling is a relatively immature market which offers a fantastic opportunity to run a business in a growing marketplace. People will never stop getting married and a wedding is a significant expenditure for a couple, this business supplies services that are now becoming a must have.

The business provides brides with a high quality personal styling service at an affordable cost, styling wedding venues using co-ordinated table linen, napkins, chair covers, sashes, table decorations, centre pieces and accessories to help deliver the bride's vision for her special day. These items are either hired or purchased by the client.

KEY ATTRACTIONS OF THIS BUSINESS

• POSITIVE INDUSTRY: Weddings are happy events and the owner of this business will genuinely feel that they are contributing something of value to their clients.

• CONTROL OF YOUR DESTINY: With this business you will be in business for yourself but not by yourself using a proven business model that 40 people are already operating successfully.

• FLEXIBLE WORKING: This business is ideal for those people who want to achieve a better work life balance and is perfect for a working parent who will be able to fit the business around child care so saving child care costs or for those people who want to step out of the 9 to 5.

• TRAINING AND SUPPORT: On purchasing this franchise you will receive an initial 2 day training course at Ambience's head office plus on-going training and support which is invaluable for a small business owner.

• FINANCIALLY STRONG: This is an established highly profitable business in a growing industry with a healthy cash flow, minimal future investment required due to the stock holding value and future bookings.

ABOUT THE FRANCHISE

Ambience is the UK's premier wedding franchise and has seen great success since its launch in 2007 with 40 franchisees now operating across the United Kingdom. It is a unique business working within the lucrative wedding industry. It has expanded quickly over the last 5 years by offering a high quality venue styling service centred on the hiring of chair covers, sashes and finishing touches. Ambience was proud to be the only venue styling company to be nominated for the Special Touches award at the 2011 and 2012 Wedding Ideas magazine awards held in London.

The franchise offers flexible hours that fit in around child care and family life. It is a fun business which is home based and ideal for people who enjoy interior design, fabrics and fashion. Ambience franchisees also have the added benefit of working with customers in an informal and friendly environment, a rare thing to find in today's business world!

If you want to find out more about the business a full sales prospectus is available by lodging an enquiry through this site. To find out more about the Ambience brand, have a browse around the Ambience web site www.ambiencevenuestyling.com

Franchise terms

Exclusive territory. Renewable 5 year licence.

Property information

Location:

Home Based.

Other information

Expansion potential:

Great potential. This franchise can generate over £60,000.00 turnover operated on a sole trader basis.

Competition / Market:

Ambience Venue Styling is the UK’s Number 1 Wedding Venue Styling Franchise.

Support & training:

Franchisee Support Programme covering venue styling trends, marketing and sales, customer service, business planning, financial management and IT and operations. The support includes training and mentoring.

Reasons for selling:

Career change after having built the business up over a 4 year period.

Trading hours:

Flexible.

Inventory / Stock value:

£10,000 (included in the asking price)

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