Asking price: £23,500

Sales revenue: £31,500

Net profit: < £100k

Fixtures value: Undisclosed

Stock value: £28,000

Business description
Serious opportunity to purchase a successful Bouncy Castle/Entertainment business which has shown continued growth year on year since we started it four years ago. We have a good reputation in the Bristol area with a high percentage of our business coming from customers coming back to us year after year - we also have a good working relationship with many of the larger schools and organisations in and around Bristol who hold profitable events.

Sale includes 19 major hire items of equipment (plus minor items such as garden games, etc) and all supporting equipment including fans, extension leads, sandbags, stakes, mats, sack trucks, transferable 0870 phone number, website, domain names and email accounts. Our website is our major selling point as it supports full online booking and payment and is used to manage our bookings, track payments, print out hire lettters, invoices and other supporting documentation and to easily produce reports on income, equipment popularity and much more.

Also included is 6+months worth of Insurance (until April 2009), 6 months of advertising in the Bristol area Yellow pages, 6 months of advertising in the Thompson books for Bristol West and South.

Business is still active and taking orders for 2008/2009 and the order book (and deposits taken) will be included in the sale.

Accountants reports for 2006-2008 are available on request.

Years established: 4

Employees: 1

Trading hours: 9:00-20:00 x 7days

Home based: This business can be run from home.

Relocatable: This business can be relocated.

Location
Servicing Bristol, Bath and surrounding areas

Expansion potential
A number of the major local players have packed up in the last year due to age or health leaving plenty of opportunity for an existing player to expand further. The businesses operating model is easily scalable due to the use of contract staff for deliveries and technology and automated solutions for customer service. Given reasonable investment in further more diverse equipment (e.g. Rodeo Bull, Surf Simulator, etc) the business could easily be grown and we have to fully exploit the potential which exists in the highly profitable corporate market in Bristol.

Competition / Market
The competition in Bristol is currently plentiful, but the market is not saturated (as we have shown with our sustained growth over the four year period we have been trading).

Support & training
Full operating manual can be provided for operating the business. Training can be provided to new owners alongside this on all aspects of running the business and telephone/email support will be provided for 12months following the sale.

Reasons for selling
Change in family circumstances forces sale (new baby). Regardless, the business has now grown too big to handle alongside our existing commmitments and really now needs a buyer to take it on full time and exploit it to it's full potential.

Related website: www.funforhirebristol.co.uk