TOWN CENTRE LADIES DESIGNER FASHIONS & ACCESSORIES EMPORIUM IN NORTH CORNWALL

Super opportunity to acquire this unique vintage emporium offering a huge selection of individual clothes & accessories from it's stylish & superbly fitted parade showroom premises in sought-after town centre retail position. Comes with a HUGE scope for online sales etc in fantastic location & sensibly priced for quick genuine sale with viewing absolutely essential REF 1538

The subject premises occupy an outstanding and highly visible trading position among numerous other complementary independent operators in the busy heart of a vibrant and historic year-round riverside tourist market town situated with excellent access to major road links in north Cornwall.

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

This well established and highly regarded discerning clothes shopper’s “Aladdin’s Cave” of genuine one-off pieces and sought after fashion for discerning shoppers has a wide and colourful range of quality hand picked style pieces for both women and a small men's selection too. Showcasing its emphasis on style and individuality for ladies of all ages, the exclusive range boasts something unique, wearable and affordable for everyone with perhaps the largest selection of vintage hats in Cornwall. With changing seasonal ranges and a focus on innovative, eye-catching merchandising, the shop always looks fresh, enticing and irresistible.

This “one stop” emporium also stocks an excellent choice of associated quality fashion accessories including socks, hats, scarves, gloves, handbags and “statement jewellery", all displayed to its very best advantage in a charming, spacious and welcoming showroom area. The showroom is outstanding by any measure or standard.

The store is really just at the beginning of its full potential having only been established in its current location since September 2017, but this affords any purchaser ample scope for growth, not least with regard to local festivals, events, fashion shows and Sunday trading, particularly during the busy summer months. There is a local and seasonal trade to be fully exploited here with continued focus on excellent customer service, solid long-term relationship building and a positive, exciting retail experience.

The business would also benefit by adopting a more vigorous marketing policy, promoting its excellent existing product and services through the various social media channels. It has a strong Facebook presence and an invaluable text database through which there is an overwhelming engagement with its communications, but this could all be used to better and more strategic effect to improve upon the already very respectable levels of turnover it has achieved. Quirky Boutique Wadebridge has been trading in the town under the current proprietor since 2015, but has now clearly established itself in the town in its current central locations (next to boots the chemist) with the aid of only a small, experienced and motivated team of three part-time staff who would be an asset to any purchaser. This business is unquestionably an asset to the town, not least aesthetically, we would unreservedly recommend a viewing.

These substantial and superbly fitted leasehold terraced parade premises provide truly outstanding and highly functional internal business accommodation, which briefly comprises an inviting and glazed, double-fronted public entrance into the main, bright, welcoming and deceptively spacious retail sales and customer service showroom area with suspended ceiling, diffused fluorescent lighting, extensive track spotlighting, feature whitewashed laminate wooden flooring throughout for easy cleaning and inspection mirrors.

The main customer service area and shop floor houses a full range of high quality, unusual, fixed and freestanding, purpose- built display rails, racking, shelving and bespoke furniture. The mannequins are generously interspersed amid the fashion offering to create a stunning display of inspirational ideas and arty features, which draw you round the whole store through a journey of colour, appreciation and joy. In addition the sparkly soft furnishings are epitomised in a curtained private fitting/changing room area with full length inspection mirrors and viewing area adjacent which is a converted and opened internal office, creating a unique space of perceived seclusion and privacy. Benefitting from its former use as an estate agents, the showroom is fitted with numerous plug sockets and the fully fitted display point sale counter area is serviced with all the card and till points required.

The premises also incorporates a good-sized area to the rear of the shop floor for general store, staff quarters and stock, with further ancillary accommodation consisting of a small shop kitchen area, washroom/WC facilities. There is also a separate delivery doorway through the back which provides easy access to the rear parking.

The premises also enjoy the benefit of electric night storage heating.

Externally:

To the front the premises are prominently signed and attractively presented and afford extensive and inviting, double-fronted display window space beneath an eye-catching liveried canopy onto a high footfall tourist town centre commercial thoroughfare, with unrestricted customer parking available locally.

The premises also enjoy the use of communal loading bay and unrestricted off-road parking facilities to the rear.

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