Relocatable Quality Fancy Dress Costume Hire With Ecommerce Website | | Tamworth Staffordshire | | This is a fully relocatable successful home run business that has been trading for over 2 years. The costume stock includes theatrical, medieval, vintage, original, hand-made and fancy dress costume. All stock, website, advertising and goodwill included. Freehold to buy Relocatable Quality Fancy Dress Costume Hire With Ecommerce Website is located in Staffordshire. | | ADVERT NUMBER : 13686
ADVERT IMPRESSIONS : 15,583 TIME(S) | | | | BUSINESS SECTOR: | Retail | | TRADE TYPE: | Fancy Dress & Party Goods | | SALE: | Private Sale | FREEHOLD: | £22500 | | | | | BUSINESS DETAILS: | Unique collection of hire quality fancy dress, theatrical and medieval costume and vintage clothing. Stock includes Rubies licensed costumes, Leg Avenue and Forplay range as well as brand new Make Believe costumes, Bristol Novelty, Magic by Freddy's and Marvel comics, hand made originals as well as stock of from other well known costume suppliers. Many of the costumes are brand new and some packaged Smiffy's costumes. New top range costumes just arrived June 2008.
This full time business is currently run from home and could easily be transfered to retail premises. Along with over 650 full costumes are a range of accessories, wigs, hats and numerous extras. This sale would include business website which is fully ecommerce enabled and receives high number of hits daily as well as established business name and logos. Extensive advertising can also be transfered as well as a large customer base to include local radion stations, tourist information as well as town centre entertainment venues and theatre groups and stage schools. Also included will be heavy duty clothing rails, adjustable mannequin, all storage solutions, tumble dryer and any other associated items and advertising media including catalogues and photo's.
The owner would be agreeable to transfering existing business mobile number if required to enable new owner to keep track of all existing business easily. Advanced bookings have been taken up to August 2008. If business remains in the Midlands advanced bookings can be negotiated for theatre companies for xmas productions. The business website is currently updated on a daily basis with new product information being added. Website includes feedback form with excellent customer recommendations and links to business customers.
Reason for sale, the owner has been made an offer to manufacture a new line of costumes and will no longer have the time available to run the hire business.
The business is currently run from home full time. All the costume stock is stored in a workshop which is 10 x 12ft. There are currently 3 6ft rails and one 10ft rail but for ease of storage a further 6 ft rail could be used.
This business is being run from a small town and as well as local customers brings work in from accross the midlands. The website enables business to be generated around the country and if desired, globally.
This business currently works on appointment basis giving each customer individual attention, the only business of it's kind in this area. If retail premises were obtained more customers could be generated. This business also has online shop facility and optional eBay shop (not currently selling hire costumes). Fancy dress shops compete for business but this costume collection contains original items and the business reputation is built on quality and excellent service.
Retail premises could enable buyer to expand accessories range for retail sale and expansion into party goods and baloon market possible. MissFit already supplies to several entertainment centres and theatre groups and expansion is imminent as these companies grow. The current owner would be willing to discuss supplying her new original costume range exclusively to the prospective buyer for MissFit Costumes within an agreed area.
Although located in Tamworth, Staffordshire, Business has customers in and around the West Midlands, Birmingham, Coventry, Walsall and Coleshill. Customers for bespoke costumes travel from all over the country.
Business Costumes exclusively in this area if the business remains local.
Owner can no longer give time required to the hire business as costume making business is expanding. Owner is reluctantly having to sell but would be happy to remain associated and pass on all relevant business as she will still be working in the costume indus.try.
Reasonable offers considered | | | | | | SOLD or WITHDRAWN FROM MARKET | | | | | | | | | | | |
