INDUSTRY

Printing, Publishing

BUSINESS SUMMARY

‘High Street’ print & copy shop T- shirts, Litho and digital colour printing, High Volume Photocopying, Promotional merchandise, leisure and corporate clothing. Ref no: IY050 Confidentially offered for sale Location: Croydon Surrey Asking price: £50,000 Established in 1996, and originally conceived purely as a litho print shop this business has harnessed recent advances in technology to meet the ever changing requirements of its expanding customer base of local businesses and local consumers. Consequently this business has become a valuable ‘one stop shop’ for its customers providing a very wide range of printing services – everything from corporate communications, black and white and full colour copying right through to Christmas and wedding stationery, personalized calendars and promotional merchandise. Based in prominent, retail premises which attracts significant passing trade, with the ‘print shop’ to the rear of the building this business provides a full design, black and white and colour copying and print service – anything from business cards through to A3 size leaflets using its two colour litho and full colour digital capabilities. Folding, perforating, binding, finishing and serial numbering are all available in-house. This business is also called upon by its ‘corporate’ customers to raise and maintain awareness of their businesses through the supply of printed display boards – everything from site boards to perimeter advertising at sports grounds, ‘A’ boards, vinyl lettering for use in windows and on vans for example, magnetic signs, and banners used to promote everything from car boot sales to school fetes.

	BUSINESS FINANCIALS
Asking Price: £50,000
	GENERAL COMPANY INFORMATION
Organization Structure: Headquarters/Main Location: Home Based Time on lease/mortgage: N/A Is Business Relocatable? No
	MARKET OUTLOOK/COMPETITION
This business undertakes little or no advertising or marketing to speak of, relying on its very prominent location, a very active and loyal customer base and the most effective form of marketing of all, word of mouth recommendation. It features in the local edition of the Yellow Pages and has a very well designed, informative and easy to navigate website that performs well within all the major search engines for all appropriate search terms
	DETAILS ABOUT THE SALE
Support & Training The current owners will be on hand for a short period of time to ensure the smooth transfer of the business and particularly to introduce the new owners to its current Client base. Reason for Selling Having both been involved in the printing industry for a considerable period of time, the current Owners wish to retire from the sector to pursue other business interests. Is Management Willing to Stay? No Are You An Intermediary? No