Company history/background
Offered for acquisition is a wine specialty shop centrally located in the Netherlands, established for over twenty years with an active webshop.
The company has a clear positioning: quality, advice, and experience, combined with its own import line that ensures a distinctive edge.
Company activities
The company focuses on private and business customers. The assortment consists of a broad and carefully curated selection, which includes not only quality wines but also its own wine brand imported by the company itself.
The store and webshop reinforce each other; customers find their way here for targeted purchases as well as for advice and inspiration.
Other points:
- legal form of business: General Partnership
- affiliated as a partner with a renowned purchasing organization
- agency for one's own wine brand (exclusivity and recognizability)
- personnel: use of hired personnel; no obligation to take over
Unique selling points
Subject to confidentiality, further information is available regarding revenue, margins, and profit development, as well as the breakdown between store sales, online revenue, and business sales. Revenue and margins can be described as very healthy.
Other points:
- Trading stock: for acquisition (usually at purchase value)
- webshop: fully operational and part of the proposition
- customer base: combination of regular private customers and business clientele
Other
After a long period of entrepreneurship, the owner wishes to shift the focus to other activities. A careful handover is open for discussion.
The business is operated as a general partnership (VOF). This entails an asset/liability transaction (including the transfer of retail and webshop activities, inventory, trading stock, and relevant rights/agreements). Exact details and transfer date: to be agreed upon. Further documentation is available subject to confidentiality.
This company is interesting for:
- Strategic buyers/investors who want to add to or strengthen a wine concept with an existing customer base and online channel.
- Entrepreneurial MBI candidates with an affinity for wine and retail, who can continue and further expand the business.
Personal data
- MBI candidate
- Strategic acquisition
- Investor