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West Yorkshire Stationers For Sale

(Ref: 9251WF)

West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Financials

Asking price: £32,000

Sales revenue: £96,700

Net profit: Undisclosed

Fixtures value: Undisclosed

Stock value: Undisclosed

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Business description
Advent Business Sales are pleased to offer to the market this well established stationers, which has been trading successfully for the past 23 years.

The vendor has been in ownership for the past 11 years and is reluctantly selling due to other business interests.

The business has a large regular customer base of local people plus commercial account customers, mostly from within a 3 male radius but some from as far a field as Wakefield.

The shop offers a photo copying and laminating facility and sells a wide range of stationery products from pens, pencils, erasers, crayons, rulers and geometric sets, notepads, envelopes of all sizes, paper, folders and ring binders, accountancy and day books, calculators and computer ink and much more. Any special requests can usually be obtained for clients by the next day from their wholesalers.

In order to get the best possible deal on products, the shop is a member of ‘office club’ a group buying scheme, which negotiates trade prices less 1/3 for their members, ensuring good gross profits.

The business is staffed by the owner together with 1 full time employee.

We are advised that stock at cost is approximately £9 - £10,000.

This is an ideal starter business with a firm and regular customer base. The stock levels are reasonable as is the asking price.
REF: 9251WF

Trading hours: Mon-Sat -9.00am -5.30pm

Property: Leasehold


Lease terms
TENURE: Leasehold Original lease: New lease available Remaining lease: Review every: 3 years Rent: £8,000 P.A. We are advised that the annual business rates are currently: £1,731

Location
Our client’s stationery supply shop is conveniently located in a delightful market town in West Yorkshire. The position of the shop is ideal as it is situated in a shopping parade, which front into the twice a week market with the entire added out of town market day shoppers exposure.

The town itself is very close to the M1 and M62 motorways.

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