GIFT SHOP IN CARDIFF

Very well established gift shop offering wide range of market-leading products open 6-days a week. Run from superbly fitted & presented parade showroom on main road through prosperous city suburb. Lots of further potential in prime location. Sensibly priced for quick genuine sale with valuable inventory of high quality equipment & fittings included & viewing highly recommended REF 3031

The subject premises occupy an outstanding and highly visible trading position among numerous other complementary independent operators in the vibrant and densely populated suburb of Canton, which lies with excellent access to major road and motorway links (A461, A48, A4119 and M4 junctions 32 and 33 etc.) on the outskirts of the world-class Welsh capital city of Cardiff.

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

This very well established gift shop currently primarily stocks a stunning and eclectic range of market-leading essential oils, organic skincare products and gift quality homeware, handcrafted jewellery, chocolates and “Fair Trade” teas etc., all displayed to its very best advantage in a charming, spacious and welcoming showroom area.

The shop additionally greatly enhances the shopping experience of its customers by providing a highly complementary menu of “healthy option” hot and cold snacks, sandwiches, homemade soups and a wide selection of indulgent, largely vegan and gluten-free, locally baked cakes and pastries, together with an excellent choice of beverages including loose leaf teas.

All food is prepared freshly to order in its fully equipped and five-star hygiene rated open “theatre style” commercial catering facilities employing the finest and freshest, locally sourced produce and served in the very pleasant surroundings of a small, but attractively furnished in-store tearoom area which may accommodate up to eighteen covers in style and comfort, with additional external covers also available in a delightful and enclosed rear tea garden.

This virtually “one stop” shop would naturally furnish any enthusiastic purchaser with considerable scope for continued growth, not least with regard to possible investment in staff and to the possible introduction of Sunday trading in order to exploit the full potential sales and catering capacity of its facilities.

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 very respectable levels of turnover it has achieved since being established in its present form some six successful years ago by the current sole proprietor, and we would unreservedly recommend a viewing.

Fitted to superb industry specifications throughout, these charming, substantial and extremely well maintained leasehold character parade premises provide truly outstanding and 5-Star hygiene rated internal business accommodation, which briefly comprises an inviting, recessed and glazed, single-fronted public entrance with ornamental security gate directly off Llandaff Road into the main, bright, welcoming and deceptively spacious showroom and dispensary area with suspended ceiling, diffused fluorescent lighting and feature polished timber flooring throughout for easy cleaning.

The customer service showroom and dispensary houses a full range of high quality, fixed and freestanding, purpose-built display racking, shelving and furniture for a wide and eclectic range of market-leading organic skincare products and premium quality gifts etc., in addition to a prominent and fully fitted display point-of-sale and dispensary counter with full complement of weighing and modern payment facilities.

The main public area also incorporates a charming and attractively furnished circa 18-cover in-store tea room housing a prominent and fully fitted food serve-over counter with ambient and refrigerated counter-top patisserie and soft drink displays, till/food ordering point, feature suspended overhead lighting system and a fully equipped open ‘theatre style” food preparation area with extraction system and a full range of well maintained, industry standard catering appliances including panini grill, hot water boiler, microwave and soup tureen etc., all of which we understand is 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 showroom and tea room facilities consists of a small, fully equipped preparation/washing-up kitchen area, together with all the usual washroom/WC facilities for customers and separate doorway access through the rear external trading area.

Further ancillary internal business accommodation consists of private doorway access to a fully equipped and versatile alternative therapy room with treatment couch and its own en-suite cloakroom/WC.

The premises also enjoy the benefit of gas central heating, in addition to the added safety and security benefits of CCTV monitoring and a full fire alarm system.

Externally:

To the front the premises are prominently signed and attractively presented and afford extensive and inviting display window space onto a high footfall suburban commercial thoroughfare, with free 1-hour and 2-hour customer parking available locally.

The premises also incorporate a charming and enclosed tea garden trading area to the rear with all-weather “astroturf” surface and additional, well maintained furnishings for approximately 16 external covers in good weather.

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

www.theapothecarycardiff.com

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