Business for sale

Business description

Advent Business Sales have been instructed to offer for sale this well established and profitable business with excellent potential.

Established 13 years ago by the vendors, it is now reluctantly offered for sale due to the vendor’s retirement plans.

The business consists of two main centres of operation consisting of the main business of the pond and fish supplies, which is operated from the rear of the premises with fitted outbuildings plus outside ponds holding fish stocks.

In addition to this business, there is a profitable tuck shop style operation where the vendors have taken advantage of their location directly opposite the school to sell confectionery, sandwiches and soft drinks during term time only.

In addition to this, there is a high level self contained 3 bedroom family living accommodation, as well as a large plot to the rear of the premises. The premises also benefits from a house alarm & smoke detector.

The business is solely staffed by a husband and wife team, plus 1 part time member of staff.

The business currently benefits from a strong local reputation with a high level of repeat custom, relying solely on this and a small amount of advertising including Yellow Pages and BT phone book and Yell.com and BT.com.

General Information
Trading hours:7 Days a Week
Property:Leasehold
Location:The business benefits from a main road location in a densely populated suburb to the South of Sheffield. There are high volumes of passing traffic and footfall in particular, due to the school opposite.

There are excellent parking facilities with customer parking directly to the front of the premises and free on street parking plus a large driveway leading to a large paved parking area to the rear of the premises.

Expansion potential:There is excellent potential for growth and expansion including developing unused buildings to the rear of the premises to house further fish stocks and equipment. There is also scope to develop the rear of the land further to hold more stocks of fish. The business could also benefit from increased turnover from further advertising.