LADIES FASHION CLOTHING & ACCESSORIES EMPORIUM IN SKIPTON TOWN CENTRE

Very long established boutique offering wide & regularly changing premium-quality domestic & imported clothing range from superbly fitted character parade showroom premises with high volume of year-round regular & passing trade in historic tourist market town. Comes with excellent e-commerce website & HUGE scope for online marketing etc in wonderful lifestyle setting. Sensibly priced for genuine sale after many successful years trading in same hands with viewing highly recommended REF 1461

The subject premises occupy a fantastic and much sought-after trading position among other complementary independent operators in the busy heart of the vibrant and historic year-round tourist market town of Skipton (“The Gateway to the Dales”) with its ancient castle visitor attraction, which lies with excellent access to major road links (A59, A65 and A629 etc.) in the delightful Aire Valley area of North Yorkshire.

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

This very well established and highly regarded boutique currently primarily conducts an extremely popular retail operation of a stunning and eclectic choice of domestic and imported, designer-led ladies’ fashion clothing lines, ranging from traditional dresses, tops, jackets and coats to more exotic kaftans, kurtas and Balinese shrugs etc., with regularly changing seasonal collections also available.

The store also stocks an excellent choice of associated fashion footwear lines, millinery and associated accessories, all displayed to its very best advantage in a bright, charming and welcoming showroom area.

“East End” additionally offers a popular and highly efficient online ordering and sales service and would naturally furnish any enthusiastic purchaser with ample scope for continued growth, not least with regard to the possible introduction of evening fashion shows and hospitality events and to operating significantly extended retail hours in order to fully exploit year-round local and passing trade demand.

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 in the course of more than thirty successful years’ trading in the hands of the current proprietor, with the aid of a team of five experienced and motivated shop staff who would be an asset to any purchaser, and we would unreservedly recommend a viewing.

These superbly fitted stone-built leasehold character parade premises provide outstanding and highly functional internal business accommodation, which briefly comprises an inviting and double- fronted public entrance directly off Victoria Square, into the main, charming, welcoming and deceptively spacious, open-plan retail sales and customer service showroom area with wealth of exposed original ceiling timber work, diffused fluorescent strip lighting and laminate wooden flooring throughout for easy cleaning.

The main customer service area houses a full range of high quality, fixed and freestanding, purpose-built display rails, racking and shelving for a stunning and eclectic range of domestic and imported ladies’ fashion wear lines and accessories, together with inspection mirrors and a prominent, fully fitted display point-of-sale counter area with electronic till point and access to a private fitting/changing room area.

Further ancillary internal business accommodation consists of all the usual washroom/WC facilities.

The premises also enjoy the benefit of double glazing, in addition to the added security benefit of a full alarm system.

Externally:

Occupying an outstanding and much sought-after trading position among other exclusive outlets on a charming and extremely popular town centre commercial square, to the exterior the premises are prominently signed and attractively presented and afford extensive and inviting, double-fronted display window space onto a good-sized forecourt trading area employed for additional external display purposes in good weather.

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