Costa
With over 500 stores across the UK and experience
of running franchises at a corporate and international level,
Costa has now a well established Franchise
opportunity in the UK. We are seeking to open new stores across the
UK, focussing on busy market towns to supplement our growing
company-owned network.
By opening over 500 stores across the UK we have built robust
systems and processes that have enabled our stores to focus on
ensuring that the customer comes first every time!
The Franchise Package
We are looking for Franchisees who have the
energy and resources to open and develop a "cluster" of a minimum
of five stores in a geographical region. With the full weight and
experience of both Costa, and our parent company
Whitbread, we will work with you to establish your first store in
your first year with us. And when you have successfully launched
and operated your first store we will work with you to exploit the
right regional opportunities within your territory.
As a Costa Franchisee operating five sites and
more, you will have a significant business which will require the
right infrastructure and team in place to support it.
Nothing has been left to chance and our combination
of experience and know how will enable our Franchisees to operate
to the very highest of standards. Our operational blueprint will
enable you and your teams to hit the ground running, allowing you
to focus on the overall development of the business.
From "cluster" identification, through to the training of you and
your people, we will support you with real "hands-on", practical
advice.
Financial Information
Of course, your investment won't be purely one of
time and effort as we will also ask you to make a financial
commitment.
Whilst we want to ensure that you successfully operate your first
store we will have a careful eye on your development plans and for
this reason we would want to work with Franchisees who understand
the commercial realities involved in running a small "cluster" of
stores.
In order to maximise the opportunity a significant financial
investment is required and we are looking for people with the
ability to open stores quickly. To do this you will need
£250,000 liquid assets and the ability to raise a further
£500,000 without having to borrow against the initial stores
opened.
Each store costs between £200,000 and
£250,000 to acquire and build and the aforementioned funding
requirement will enable you to make the most of property
opportunities that come your way.
Our
Support
A key feature of the Costa
Franchise package is the support that we put in
place:-
- "Cluster" Identification and Property
Support
- Store Designs, Branding and
Fit-out
- Product Supply
- Full Training
- Merchandising and
Promotion
- Operational and Financial
Support
The key focus for Costa is to
ensure that when the time comes to launch - we don't just walk away
from you and expect you to get on with it. Our training and support
programmes are impressive and will focus on developing a close
working relationship with you and your team.
Have you got what it
takes?
We are looking to appoint a number of locally
based entrepreneurs that have the drive and motivation to work
closely with us to make a success of their own business.
In addition to experience and drive you will need
to be able to motivate others, manage teams and maintain effective
relationship with staff, advisers, Costa
Management and customers.
We're sure that you will want to know more about
our ideas and plans and we will want to know more about
you.
