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Here at the Young Chef's Academy franchise we offer cooking classes to children in a safe environment that encourages discovery and creativity. While learning food preparation skills is the main ingredient at YCA, each of our classes adds a heap of kitchen safety, a scoop of etiquette, a handful of table setting, a pinch of menu planning, and laughter to taste.
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The BEDAZZLE Franchise concept is designed to complement the primary school curriculum with after-school courses offering performing arts training to Primary school students aged 6 – 11. In it's first year of setting up, Bedazzle opened in 15 locations - all of them making a profit almost immediately.
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The Prokill Pest Prevention franchise not only provides you with the perfect opportunity, but also the confidence, to step out on your own and forge a strong, profitable business and a secure future.
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Dream Doors is the UK's largest kitchen facelift retailer with 40 showrooms nationwide. As a franchise owner, you will run your own local business providing a niche product and service that is in great demand. No kitchen or retail experience is necessary, as full training and ongoing support is provided for you and your staff. In fact, Dream Doors has been consistently recognised for the standards of training and support it provides, winning eight awards in the last three years, including the bfa's Brand Builder of the Year and a National Training Award.
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BusinessesForSale.com boasts a wide variety of small businesses for sale around the UK, in a range of industries from agricultural business opportunities to online small businesses for sale. BusinessesForSale.com features more than just an abundance of businesses for sale; the site also offers articles, podcasts and videos about choosing the right small business opportunity, how to buy a small business and generating small business ideas.
Buying a business offers many advantages over starting your own enterprise. You’re buying an established business opportunity with existing customers, a brand recognised in its marketplace and fully trained staff who are accustomed to their role. Moreover, depending on the small business for sale, an acquisition with a proven track record should be easier to obtain funding for than a small business idea that exists only on paper.
It’s not easy to identify which businesses for sale will represent a shrewd investment. Obviously you must ascertain how profitable a business opportunity is and the potential to boost revenues. Fundamental to this process is performing due diligence, where you scrutinise the business for sale’s records and premises to determine whether the business opportunity lives up to its description in the sales memorandum and BusinessesForSale.com advert. A business transfer agent can also offer guidance about buying a small business, helping you value the business independently of the seller’s valuation and negotiating the purchase of the business for sale.
A small business for sale also has to suit your background, skills and interests. For example, if you have good social skills and hospitality experience then you might consider hotel businesses for sale. Or maybe your talents lie in technology or the media, in which case IT and media businesses for sale would be a good category to start.
Geographic location is obviously a consideration if you want to buy a business. Would you relocate if the right business opportunity arose? You can filter your search to ‘relocatable’ business opportunities, which often means internet-based and other work-from home opportunities.
Your options when you buy a small business will obviously be limited by your budget and the size of the security you can borrow money against. Before you buy a business, think not just about the initial consideration to acquire the asset; also factor in ongoing working capital post-sale. Obviously you can never predict accurately to the nearest pound how much cash flow you’ll need, so perhaps leave enough slack for a tight-cash-flow scenario.