Dry Cleaning business

[Evertonian75]

Hello All.

I am new to this site and just wanted to opinions from people on this forum.
I'm looking into buying a dry cleaning business. Can anyone tell me if this is a business worth investing in or anyone out there that already own one or more and recommends purchasing one. Any thoughts/advice would be most welcome.

Thank you

Kunal

 

[tony84]

I use dry cleaners for suits, my mum uses them for dresses so there is definately the need.

But as for whether the business you are talking about is worth it or not you have to think about where it is based. If its in an area where the majority of people are on benefits then probably not.

But its like any business, what are the expenses, what is the income based on that is it worth the price?
Can you increase the profit by cutting costs or increase the amount of business coming in and making more money that way?

 

[C.Sanctuary]

Hi Kunal,
I am in the same boat .... how have you found the search and have you come to any conclusions?

IB

 

[KidsBeeHappy]

I would ask how close is the nearest morrisons?

 

[C.Sanctuary]

Far enough ;o)
Thanks

 

[S-Marketing]

I would ask how close is the nearest morrisons?

Or Waitrose, thats who we use.

 

[C.Sanctuary]

Could I win you over?

 

[KidsBeeHappy]

It's not particularly me that you need to win over. I am an avid support of small town centre businesses, and try to use whereever possible over the supermarkets.

However, it comes down to normal consumer behaviour. And unfortunately, the reason that so many dry cleaner companies went to the wall because the great british consumer does like to get everything done in one go, at 7pm at night, once a week in a great one stop shop.

 

[Wholesale-Suppliers]

This is a good business but it will take a lot of time of making the more and more profit because such businesses don't grow fast

 

[vvaannmmaann]

These people have 244 of them for sale across the entire UK.

http://www.businessesforsale.com/search/Dry-Cleaners-for-sale

I know nothing about the business,but I would imagine the costs of electricity would be very high.Then there is the chemical handling bit.......
I imagine there are lots of regualtions to deal with.