RETAIL & ONLINE HEALTH FOODS & SPORTS NUTRITION SUPERSTORE IN BEDFORD TOWN CENTRE

Very long established & highly regarded Ltd Co offering stunning range of market-leading products from spacious & extremely well fitted 2-storey showroom premises with high volume of year-round regular & passing trade in popular town centre covered retail arcade. Comes with excellent e-commerce website & lots of further potential, for 'hands on' operator in growth market or superbly located acquisition for expanding health & fitness supplies provider. Sensibly priced for genuine retirement sale after many successful years trading in same hands with early viewing strongly advised REF 2424

The subject premises occupy an outstanding and highly visible trading position among other complementary independent operators in a high footfall covered arcade situated with excellent access to major bus, rail, road and motorway links in the busy heart of the prosperous and historic market and county town of Bedford.

We are delighted to present this marvellous 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 limited company currently primarily conducts an extremely useful and popular retail and online sales operation of a stunning and eclectic range of premium quality products by numerous market leading-suppliers.

The store’s products include a wide selection of largely organically based health and wholefoods, including low calorie, gluten free, wheat free and dairy free options, with an extensive selection of vitamins, minerals, associated dietary supplements and natural herbal and holistic remedies also available.

“Pumpernickel” additionally stocks a range of eco-friendly toiletries, and is particularly renowned for its excellent choice of affordable sports nutrition products including whey protein, creatine, muscle builders and energy drinks etc., all displayed to its very best advantage in bright, spacious and attractively appointed ground and first-floor showroom areas.

This virtually ‘one stop’ shop additionally offers a safe and highly effective, non-invasive and painless LED based SRT enhanced therapy service for all ages in a private in-store treatment room and would naturally furnish any enthusiastic purchaser with considerable scope for continued growth, not least with regard to the possible introduction of Sunday trading 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 dedicate 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 presence form almost twenty highly successful years ago by the current director, with the aid only of a small, experienced and motivated team of one full-time and two part-time staff who would be an asset to any purchaser.
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 increasingly popular and ever-expanding health and fitness supplies and solutions services market by the acquisition of a substantial and extremely well located additional independent outlet with a priceless local name, a superb market-leading product range and an already impressive customer base, and we would strongly recommend the earliest possible viewing to avoid disappointment.

Fitted to high contemporary industry specifications throughout, theses substantial and well maintained TWO STOREY leasehold arcade premises provide outstanding and highly functional internal business accommodation which, to the GROUND FLOOR, briefly comprises an inviting and glazed, double-fronted public entrance directly off ‘The Arcade’ into the main, bright, welcoming and deceptively spacious, “walk round” retail sales and customer service showroom area with suspended ceiling, diffused fluorescent lighting and feature polished timber flooring throughout for easy cleaning.

The main showroom area houses a full range of high quality, fixed and freestanding, purpose-built display racking, shelving, furniture and glass-fronted and refrigerated display cabinets for a stunning and eclectic range of market-leading health and wholefoods, dietary supplements, herbal and holistic remedies and associated sundries, in addition to a prominent, fully fitted display point-of-sale counter area with full complement of payment facilities.

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

Accessed by means of a staircase from the ground-floor showroom area, to the FIRST FLOOR the premises provide further excellent internal business accommodation which consists of a second, spacious and equally well fitted retail sales and customer service showroom area with laminate wooden flooring throughout, which is dedicated largely to the display of an extensive selection of premium quality sports nutrition products and a range of sportswear.

Further ancillary accommodation to the first floor consists of a fully equipped private LED enhanced therapy treatment room, together with a fully furnished and computerised private and general administration office with telephone and full complement of modern online ordering and industry-specific business management systems.

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

Externally:

To the exterior the premises are prominently signed and attractively presented and afford extensive and inviting, double-fronted display window space onto a high footfall town centre covered retail arcade, with customer parking available in a number of nearby local public car parks.

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

www.pumpernickel-online.co.uk

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