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craigl
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Joined: Tue 25 Oct, 2011 11:09 am
Location: Suffolk
Organisation: Crazy Canvas
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Canvas Printing Business For Sale

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LOOKING FOR A QUICK SALE - OFFERS WELCOME - HUGE PRICE CHANGE! - GRAB A BARGIN TODAY AND START TRADING TOMORROW!

Crazy Canvas was set up in May 2007 and is now an established manufacturer of canvas prints, specialising in transferring photographs and images on canvas.

The business has mainly been ran on a part time basis, along side college and university courses.

The business has a number of income streams that cover both online and business to business trading which include the following:

- Website orders
- Returning clients
- Returning customers

Expansion Opportunities

The current owner divides his time bewteen the business and university as well as managing a property development projects. There has not been a great deal of advertising the business in the last two years and it mainly runs from retuning customers and clients.

The equipment can also be used for:

- Poster printing
- Photo printing
- Banner printing
- Exhibition displays
- Photos onto MDF/fomax

The successful purchaser of the business will be able to trade from the day they take over.

Crazy Canvas has recently been re-branded which includes a new website, with a shopping cart.

There's a lot of equipment included in the sale as well as documentation to help you day to day.

Equipment:

Computers / Programmes:
Apple imac 27"
Apple Magic Mouse
Apple Key board
Apple Trackpad
Laptop
Adobe Photoshop CS2
Adobe Indesign
Adobe Illustrator
Manuals

Printers / Laminator:
HP Designjet Z3100 GP PS 44"
Colour Calibration Software
HP Desktop Printer, Scanner, Fax
Label Printer
EasyMount 650 Cold Laminator

Framing Equipment:
Framing Bench
Quick Mate Stretchers 60"
Quick Mate Stretchers 30"
Stapler x 3
Staples
Drill
Small Drill
Screws
Frame Hangers x 500
Frame Tape x 35
Scissors x 4
Hammer x 2
Making the Frames:
Framing Bench
Morso Guillotine
Paslode Gas Nail Gun
Nails
Gas
Wood Glu
Sandpaper
Screws
V Nails
PoleCore Moulding (box frames) 30 Meters
Ready made frames
Stretcher Moulding


Packaging:
Fragile Tape x 36
Bubble Wrap 1200mm x 100m x 2
Corrogated Cardboard 1200mm x 75m x 2

Media:
Canvas 24" x 1
Canvas 36" x 1
Canvas 42" x 1
Gloss Photo 24" x 1
Gloss Photo 44" x 1
Matte Paper 24" x 1
Matte Paper 36" x 1
Varnish x 1
Laminatoring Films x 2

Other:
MDF Boards x 15 (6ft x 4ft)
Mire Saw
Varnish Sprayer x 3
Desk
Work Bench

Also Included

Website / E-mail:

New site is nearly completed. (Please e-mail for preview)

http://www.crazy-canvas.com
info@crazy-canvas.com
orders@crazy-canvas.com
yourname@crazy-canvas.com

25k hits since May 2007
2.6k in 2011 with no advertising campaigns in place

SEO:

A lot of money has been spent getting crazy canvas on the first page of the natural listings.

Keywords on major search engines

Framed Canvas Photos - all page one. google No.2, bing No.1, yahoo No.3
Images On Canvas - google page one, bing page one
Photos Printed To Canvas - google page one no.5, bing page one

New website has had money spent on key wording etc

Web Tools:

Google Analytics
Google Adwords (campaigns set up)
imail set up
Back room system on new site to track sales

Clients:

Clients over the years have been a mixture of website customers, local customers, professional photographers, football clubs and property developers to name a few.

A database of clients will be available and current clients will be informed the business has been sold but to recommend still using the successful buyer.

Support:

I can offer on-going support once the sale has been completed. I can even help set the business up at your premises and help for a few days to get you used to the equipment. The sale will probably come with some orders.

The sale:

The equipment and stock listed cost in the region on 17k, website with seo 3k and the shares of the business will be transferred on completion to the purchaser. This is a great opportunity to start up your own business or supplement an existing business as the groundwork has already been done for you.

Offers for the assets and the goodwill are invited in the region of £17,500.

Call Craig on 07540722736
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