RETAIL & ONLINE COMICS & COLLECTABLES SUPERSTORE IN CARDIFF CITY CENTRE

Achieving T/o £175,000PA GP 80% * Fantastic opportunity for business-minded enthusiast * Offers stunning & eclectic publication range * Spacious & extremely well fitted parade showroom premises * Prime capital city centre trading position * High volume of year-round regular & passing trade * Comes with excellent e-commerce website * Lots of further potential * Superbly located acquisition for expanding allied operator * Sensibly priced for genuine Ltd Co sale after many successful years trading in same hands * VAST inventory of market-leading stock included * Viewing essential REF 1032

The subject premises occupy an outstanding and highly visible trading position among numerous other complementary independent operators, and with excellent access to major transport links, in the busy heart of the vibrant and prosperous Welsh capital city of Cardiff.

We are delighted to present this fantastic opportunity to acquire a thriving commercial proposition of exceptional quality and outstanding future possibilities, which we are confident you will agree represents genuine value.

This long established and highly regarded comic enthusiast’s paradise currently primarily conducts an extremely popular retail operation of a truly vast range of signed and un-signed, limited and open edition “graphic novels” covering all fantasy and action genres by such market-leading publishers as Marvel, DC, Image, Manga and Anime.

The store also stocks an extensive selection of equally high quality action figures, associated collectables, videos and DVDs, all displayed to its very best advantage in a bright, spacious and welcoming city centre showroom.

“Comic Guru Ltd” also generates a considerable volume of sales through its excellent e-commerce website and would naturally furnish any enthusiastic purchaser with considerable scope for continued growth, not least with regard to possible investment in staff and to hugely increased appearances at trade fairs and shows both at home and abroad.

The business would also benefit by adopting a more vigorous marketing policy of its excellent existing products and services, both through its own informative dedicated e-commerce website and to further development of its social media presence, in order to improve upon the already impressive levels of turnover it has achieved since being established in its present form some fifteen highly successful years ago by the current sole “hands-on” director.

Alternatively, this versatile proposition would most certainly appeal to some similar-sized or larger allied enterprise looking to very significantly increase its existing share of the highly diverse retail and online collectables market by the acquisition of a dynamic and extremely well located additional specialist independent operator with a valuable name in the industry, a superb market-leading product range and an already impressive nationwide customer base, and we would strongly urge any genuine interested parties to pursue the earliest possible enquiries.

These modern, substantial and superbly fitted leasehold terraced parade premises provide truly outstanding and highly functional internal business accommodation, which briefly comprises a broad and inviting, glazed and double-fronted public entrance directly off Wood Street into the main, bright, welcoming and deceptively spacious, open-plan, ‘walk-round’ retail sales and customer service showroom area with suspended ceiling and diffused fluorescent lighting throughout.

The main showroom area houses a full range of high quality, fixed and freestanding, purpose-built display racking, shelving and furniture for a stunning range of graphic novels, collectables, videos and DVDs in addition to a prominent, fully fitted display point-of-sale counter area with electronic till point with full EPOS and stock control system.

The main public area, in turn, affords easy access through to a private reading room with comfortable upholstered lounge furnishings for customers and a fully furnished and computerised private and general administration office with fully automated online ordering system, with further ancillary accommodation consisting of a large storeroom with racking system, together with a fitted shop kitchen area and all the usual washroom/WC facilities.

The premises also enjoy the benefit of portable air conditioning units.

Externally:

Situated with a bus stop directly outside, to the front the premises are well signed and attractively presented and afford extensive and inviting, double-fronted display window space beneath a prominent, fixed and illuminated canopy onto a high footfall city centre commercial thoroughfare.

The premises also enjoy the use of a service yard area to the rear with separate access for deliveries.

*We are further informed that all existing stock at the time of sale is to be included in the sale price (estimated average value circa £400,000) further details of which will be made available upon request to any genuine interested parties.

For further information, why not visit the business’ excellent dedicated e-commerce website at:-

www.thecomicguru.co.uk

The business is well fitted throughout and a valuable inventory of equipment is to be included in the sale price