This near 30-year-old gourmet, niche market, and boutique light manufacturer of a large range of popular jams, sauces, relishes, mustards, cordials, jellies, and more. Supplying diverse client groups that include a large network of national wholesale business clients, state-based product distributors, (providing higher volume orders), organically growing online purchasers (100% paid upfront) and offers contract manufacturing - ‘white labelling’. This business also offers a long lease or the option to relocate this operation to any site in Australia. Its exclusively owned brand generates a high percentage of total revenues. Most business clients contribute to this business’s high rate of returning and re-ordering clients. This high, near 50% (approx. – 25/26) gross profit margin, is the result of all the diverse sales channels converging and providing a solid net income return! This scalable, HACCP-approved and highly systemised operation includes an operations and business development manager and greater team, which leaves free time for this part-time hour-owner, who can enjoy flexible task input, mainly from the comfort of a home-based office!
• After nearly 3 decades of trading, this business knows a thing or two about supplying the national independent wholesale market, including Woolworths (a small percentage of the total), as well as major state-based distributors of food, gourmet, and gift products.
• This owner is proud to transfer a diversity of income sources and client market segments, which would make any company ‘blush’. Imagine, supplying volume-based product orders, including small online consumer orders, which are all paid upfront and add up - via its popular webstore. Relish the ever-growing number of online resellers with products being sold around the country by large, state-based distributors. Existing clients consistently re-order, and this history spans many years, if not decades, across the client base!
• Yes, this boutique, small- to medium-run specialist and gourmet product range provider is well known throughout our great nation. There is ample pride within this team of managers and extended team who produce this large and popular food and beverage range, in-house.
• This premises is large enough to be expanded, and even more semi/automatic equipment could be added to further improve productivity and cost-based efficiencies, in future. But, another 40% (approx.) growth is capable in-house, with the current equipment sited and being utilised by well-trained and qualified managers and staff.
• This owner of many years of trading is not required to work on the floor of this business, not being rostered on, actioning and overseeing the production flow, financial management and remaining responsible for product purchasing mainly. Expanding the importation is also on the cards. This owner has increased the sales - 10 fold over the last 17 years!
• This owner has excelled in creating this highly systemised, HACCP-accredited commercial premises, warehouse and business, with its exclusively owned brand generating much of its wholesale and online-based income. Even the recipes created or ‘white labelling’ for contracted clientele knows that any products produced in-house, under contract, are retained as this business’s own IP.
• When a business offers so many different client market segments (large volumes of $300K sales per year, per client, down to small runs) and is able to post such a solid and consistent gross profit margin of nearly 50% (approx.). This result says it all. This business is highly effective at producing profitable products!
• Offering a large range of already stocked and proven popular, niche and boutique food products. This light manufacturer has since amassed a large, core group of organically growing, high-quality and well-paying business clients. It also comes with a naturally expanding, 100% paid-upfront, online/web-based product purchaser fan club. Ready to be gown to its next level of sales!
• This business is not just your average boutique food manufacturer and national wholesaler of products, it enjoys the financial spoils of having so few direct competitors within its space, hence why it attracts such a diversity of industry businesses, wholesale and major state-based distributor clients.
• This investment is so smart that it even employs highly effective commission-based sales personnel. So proud this owner is about what is being produced and distributed the country over, under this business’s own label. This business could add even more to its bottom line under the direction of a new owner throughout its 5-day trading week. This owner proudly invests only flexible, lifestyle-supportive, part-time hours per week.
• Why not earn this high net income, while not needing to work within the production facility or warehouse. There is a lot to be said for enjoying the time and lifestyle freedoms of working from the comfort, and convenience of a home-based office.
• This is a reliable producer for those who want their own brand emblazoned on their own tasty products. Being both shelf stable and offering clients a long shelf life across the entire gourmet food and artisan product range.
• This is the key: providing food-topping options that enhance any meal or snack. Supplying a long list of volume-based products that adorn the shelves of independent supermarkets, convenience stores, mini marts, even Woolworths, and being marketed by online product reseller websites/webstores, large orders are regularly received by large and major product distributors. Plus, there are tourist attractions, butchers, hotels/motels and resorts (food service), gift stores, food service establishments, hamper companies and many more all returning to re-order from this trusted business.
• Differentiation is key for the large network of independent wholesale business stockists, who want to stand apart from major supermarket brands. This business is their answer, sourcing ingredients from local farmers and businesses. With its focus on producing, healthy and naturally tasty products, proudly free of preservatives, additives, and all the nasties that other mass-produced products can include.
• There is potential for expansion of the contract labelling segment sales. With three diverse income streams, it can support any new owner (regardless of prior industry background or skills), including an existing industry company with far lower overall commercial exposure than most other operations.
• With such regular orders being received online via the website (both end consumers at higher profit margins, and existing wholesale clients logging in online), including an even ‘stickier’ re-ordering of own-labelled products from contracted clients – this business’s product orders just keep flowing in, persistently.
• More marketing and advertising could be an option, with much of these sales being repeat orders, having only required $16,789 advertising spend in 25/26. Contract manufacturing for businesses makes for a ‘sticky’ relationship with new and existing business clients. There are so many more clients who could be converted, with these managers on staff able to oversee the production of all products for its large range.
It’s all in a day’s work for this part-time hour owner, these managers and the greater staff of this business. With all this value and more being transferred, as this ‘sales and profit momentum’ is ready to continually deposit funds into the new owner’s bank account.
This value package seems to have no end … and is poised for further growth potential. It has combined all the right ingredients to make for a very unique and special investment. Ready for the right owner – all this for just $749K + SAV ($159-179K approx.)
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