The Opportunity
Selling shutters to the smartest homes in the county is a lucrative business – and with a million people in a thousand square miles, Derbyshire is a fantastic place to be doing that.
It’s even easier when those shutters and blinds are premium products that rival suppliers envy and make everyone in the street want them once the first ones are installed.
This franchise comes with an extra bonus: a chance to make it much more profitable, very quickly, as the outgoing franchisee moves onto their next venture.
Pre-tax profits had been £320,000 in 2022 and £240,800 in 2023 but dropped to only £150,000 in 2024 – not because the house-proud of Derbyshire had suddenly lost their taste for elegant blinds and shutters, but because the outgoing franchisee had to manage his withdrawal.
That means the new owner can expect to restore the business to its previous profitability and then, by adding freelance teams of salespeople and fitters, grow the business substantially in this very fertile territory.
The new owner will need to be hard-working and either based in or ready to relocate to Derbyshire, and can run the business successfully as an owner-operator, doing all the sales and installations alone until the need to buy in help arises, all the time backed by excellent and knowledgeable support from Head Office.
The Franchise
Shuttercraft Derbyshire is a household-name supplier of blinds, shutters and awnings to people with high disposable incomes and the good taste to go with it.
Part of a long-established and respected network, it serves a thousand-square-mile territory with a million people in it, more than holding its own against well-known competitors.
It only sells its own products, never uses hard-sell tactics, and has a high level of repeat business from customers who love the blinds or shutters in the front of their homes so much they come back to buy them for the rear, too.
Backed by highly-effective marketing, the products are all manufactured by Shuttercraft and supplied to the franchisee to fit in the customer’s home.
Summary
A rare chance to reinvigorate a business and return its profits to what they were – double what they are now – simply by working hard and following a proven formula to sell premium-quality blinds, shutters and awnings to the well-heeled and house-proud of Derbyshire. Once restored, the new owner can expand the business then grow it substantially by using freelance teams of salespeople and fitters to take its products to a far greater number of customers.
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