HIGH CLASS BUTCHER IN INVERNESS CITY CENTRE

Long established & highly regarded 'Scottish Craft Butcher' offering premium-quality & award-winning product range from superbly fitted & presented covered arcade premises with high volume of year-round regular & passing trade in prosperous & historic year-round tourist city centre. Comes with extensive inventory of high-end equipment included & HUGE scope for online marketing & development of trade catering supplies etc in fantastic location. Priced for genuine retirement sale after many successful years trading in same hands with viewing early viewing essential REF 2288

The subject premises occupy an outstanding and much sought-after trading position among other complementary independent operators in a popular covered retail arcade situated in the busy heart of the vibrant and historic year-round tourist cathedral city of Inverness, which lies with excellent access to major road links (A9, A96 and A862) at the confluence of the River Ness with the Moray Firth, in the delightful and dramatic Highlands region of Scotland.

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 “Scottish Craft Butcher” currently primarily conducts an extremely popular sales operation of a superb range of premium quality, locally sourced and traceable traditional fresh butchery meats and poultry presented to its very best advantage in a bright, spacious and welcoming customer service area.

“Hastie & Dyce” also serves an excellent choice of associated savouries including speciality sausages, haggis, puddings, sausage rolls and award-winning pies and burgers, all prepared daily in its extensively equipped and ultra-hygienic in-store commercial catering facilities.

The store additionally stocks a highly complementary range of local fresh greengrocery produce and would naturally furnish any enthusiastic purchaser with ample scope for continued growth, not least with regard to considerable further development of its currently limited wholesale catering supply services in order to fully exploit year-round local demand.

The business would also benefit greatly by adopting a far more vigorous marketing policy of its excellent existing products and services, particularly with reference to the possible introduction of online advertising and ordering 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 in 1992 by the two current proprietors, with the aid of a team of seven experienced and motivated staff who would be an asset to any purchaser, and we would unreservedly recommend a viewing.

Fitted to superb industry specifications throughout, these substantial and extremely well maintained TWO STOREY leasehold terraced arcade premises provide truly outstanding and highly functional internal business accommodation which, to the GROUND FLOOR, briefly comprises a broad, inviting and glazed public entrance directly off “Queensgate Arcade” into the main, bright, spacious and welcoming retail sales and customer service area with diffused fluorescent lighting and tiled flooring throughout for easy cleaning, a large, open multi-deck refrigerated display unit for pre-packed meats and savouries, a separate, glass-fronted and frozen meats display unit and small, multi-deck ambient display unit for the display of fresh farm eggs and sundries.

The main public area also features a substantial, glass-fronted and refrigerated ‘L’ shaped, delicatessen-style food display and serve over counter area for an extensive selection of premium quality fresh butchery meats, poultry and award-winning savouries with electronic till point, electronic weighing facilities and a fully equipped open meat cutting area with fitted washbasin, meat slicer, back-up chest freezer storage units and easy access through to the main, fully fitted and extensively equipped commercial meat preparation kitchen.

The main kitchen houses ample stainless-steel work surfaces, storage units, additional electronic weighing facilities, meat slicer, a washing up kitchen area and a full range of well maintained, industry standard catering appliances, all of which we understand are to be included in the sale price and further details of which will be made available upon request to any genuine interested parties.

Further ancillary accommodation to the ground floor consists of a staff restroom area, together with all the usual washroom/WC facilities.

To the FIRST FLOOR the premises provide further excellent and extremely well fitted internal business accommodation which consists of a fully fitted and extensively equipped dedicated pie making kitchen housing ample stainless-steel work surfaces, storage units, a large walk-in refrigerator storage unit, additional electronic weighing facilities and a further range of industry standard, stainless-steel catering appliances including ovens and pastry dough mixers etc.

Further ancillary accommodation to the first floor consists of a small, fully furnished and equipped private and general administration office with full complement of telephone lines and industry- specific business management systems.

The premises also enjoy the benefit of double glazing and mains gas and electricity power supplies, in addition to the added security benefit of a full alarm system.

Externally:

Occupying an outstanding and much sought-after trading position among other complementary independent operators in a high footfall city centre covered retail arcade, to the exterior the premises are well signed and attractively presented and afford ample and inviting display window space onto a small forecourt trading area employed for the display of local fresh greengrocery produce.

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