If you are looking for a serious business opportunity and like living in the tropics, close to a beach and a scuba diving heaven, if you love to work with people and have a background in photography, then this may be your opportunity.
Business description
The business consists of an established professional photo shop in a town living from tourism, mainly scuba diving, and caters to residents, tourists and scuba divers alike. The business includes a Fuji mini lab for 1-hour film development, a digital picture printer, a photo studio and an office box with fax, email and internet services.
This is a business without competition in an area populated with more than 250.000 people and a lot of tourism.
The business generate income by selling photo related products such as prints, re-prints, films, frames, CDs, diskettes, batteries, IDs, cameras, underwater cameras, laminations, computer print services, etc. Additionally, a business service center with internet and fax facilities is set-up inside the photo shop premises.
Since the staff is handling most of the routine tasks like film development, picture printing, photographer services and so on, part of your job is visiting beach resorts and dive centers forging tie-ups for outlets and putting up displays for photo products. Business relationships with several partners in neighboring towns are established. A branch of the photo shop is established in a neighboring town. An additional outlet exists in a PADI 5 Star Dive Center specializing on underwater photography. These partners sell photo products in consignment and collect film rolls for the Photo Shop. A courier travels to the respective partners, using low-cost public transportation , collecting film rolls and distributing the finished print-outs.
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| The shop has a Fuji franchise | Beaches like these are close | Scuba Divers are regular customers |
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| Busy dive boats at the nearby beach | Photo coverages like Miss Bikini for local fiestas belong to the job | Great nature nearby |
Location
The photo center is on the island of Cebu , about 92km south of Cebu City. The main business is located along a national highway near the town center and market, close to an existing Internet Café and opposite a college with more than 1000 students. The photo shop has about 40 square meters and a storefront facing onto the main street. A famous tourist destination with lots of beach resorts and 12 dive centers is just 4 km away.
Reason for sale
The owner, a German national, is heavily involved in several tourism-related businesses and has no time to proper develop and pursuing the original business plan for the photo shop. Additionally, he and his family has to relocate in the foreseeable future for family reason (schooling of kids).
For more information contact Karl at kalle.epp@gmail.com.