Established Licensed Convenience Store & Deli Located in Weston-super-Mare Somerset

Long established Eastern European Licensed convenience store and deli occupying a prominent town centre location in Weston-super-Mare. Benefiting from a loyal customer base, strong repeat trade and substantial passing footfall, the business generates annual sales in excess of £500,000 and includes an established international money transfer franchise. Planning permission has recently been granted for an infill extension and reconfiguration to create an enlarged deli and additional storage area, offering excellent scope for future growth. Further potential exists to expand the deli offering, develop delivery services and increase trading opportunities. An excellent turnkey business opportunity offered at £135,950 plus SAV

The premises occupy an outstanding and highly visible trading position among numerous other complementary independent operators in the busy heart of the premier year-round seaside resort of Weston-Super-Mare, which lies with excellent access to major tourist routes (A370, A371, A368, A38 and M5 junction 21 etc.) on the delightful and ever popular north Somerset coast.

My Own Business are delighted to present this outstanding opportunity to acquire this long established and highly regarded Eastern European convenience store and deli occupying a prominent town centre location. The business benefits from a loyal customer base, strong repeat trade and substantial passing footfall.

The store offers an extensive range of imported food products and also benefits from an established international money transfer franchise, providing an additional revenue stream.

The business generates annual sales in excess of £500,000 and offers an excellent opportunity for an owner-operator or investor seeking a well-established retail operation with future expansion.

Owned by the same proprietor for an impressive 18 highly successful years with the aid only of experienced and motivated team of three part-time staff who would be an asset to any purchaser.

A significant added benefit is the recent grant of planning permission for an infill extension of the internal courtyard together with internal reconfiguration to create an enlarged deli area and additional storage facilities.

Fitted to superb industry specifications throughout, these substantial and well maintained leasehold terraced parade premises provide outstanding and highly functional internal business accommodation, which briefly comprises a broad, inviting and glazed, double-door public entrance directly off Orchard Street into the main, bright, welcoming and deceptively spacious, “walk round” retail sales and customer service area, set out in mini-supermarket style with diffused fluorescent lighting and feature solid timber flooring throughout for easy cleaning.

The main customer service area houses a full range of high quality, fixed and freestanding, purpose- built display racking, shelving and furniture, in addition to various refrigerated and frozen display cabinets, dedicated bakery, dairy and greengrocery sections and a prominent point-of-sale counter area with off licence section and a large, glass-fronted and refrigerated, delicatessen-style food display and serve-over section for a superb choice of cooked meats and associated savouries with electronic till point, weighing facilities and meat slicer etc.

Further ancillary internal business accommodation consists of all the usual washroom/WC facilities, together with a good-sized general dry goods store with concrete flooring, high ceiling, diffused fluorescent lighting, racking system and separate delivery door access to the rear.

The premises also enjoy the benefit of a mains electricity power supply, in addition to the added security benefit of steel roller shutters to the shop front.

Externally:

To the front the premises are prominently signed and attractively presented and afford extensive and inviting display window space onto a high footfall coastal resort centre commercial thoroughfare, with customer parking available in a number of nearly local public car parks.

The premises also enjoy the use of a private garage and two valuable private unrestricted off-road parking spaces to the rear, subject to an additional rent of £200 per month.

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