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Colourplus Business for Sale
Taupo, New Zealand
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One stop decorating store for all your paint and wallpaper requirements
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Taupo's
premier supplier of paint, wallpaper and tiles is for sale.
Colourplus Taupo offers specialist colour consultancy services and
professional advice on painting and decorating. They specialise in
matching Colourplus paint colours and other brand colours. Colour
scheming advice includes a free in-home consultation for larger
projects.
Customers include regular trade accounts and local Taupo residents.
The growing DIY home improvement market appreciates the value that decorating can make to the appearance and financial value of their
properties.
Colourplus Taupo offers DIY clients a welcoming place where they can get inspiration and advice on their decorating project, big or small.
The personal service offered by the business includes on-site visits and
home delivery.
Colourplus Taupo also services nearby towns including Turangi on the
Southern shore of Lake Taupo. Sales to Turangi based customers are mainly conducted by telephone and
a courier delivers their order.

Colourplus Taupo offers
an outstanding opportunity for a person with design or decorating
skills to purchase a profitable business. The whole of the Taupo
region is undergoing a boom in new housing, and in upgrading existing
dwellings. If you have sound business acumen and a desire to
capitalise on the extraordinary demand for lakeside housing, then read
what Colourplus Taupo has to offer.
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Products and
Services |
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Colourplus Taupo sell a wide range of
products including the Wattyl brand of paints. The business is the Wattyl Trade Depot
that services local trade customers. Colourplus Taupo also
supplies tilers with their adhesives, grout, silicone etc for tiling
work.
Paint
The range includes primers, sealers and undercoats, metal coatings,
and pretreatments.
Stains and Varnishes
Interior/ exterior clear finishes and stain finishes.
Curtain Express
Colourplus Taupo offer a comprehensive range of curtains and
window treatments including blinds and awnings with a full in-home
consultation. A "make to measure service" is available.
Wallpaper
A wide range of wallpaper patterns and colours.
Paint Accessories
Accessories for completing the job including
paint brushes, ladders and roller kits.
Tiles
A full range of local and imported tiles including marble, granite,
porcelain. Also adhesives, grouts, silicone and accessories.
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Colourplus Franchise
Colourplus is a nationwide group of
décor specialist stores individually owned and operated by
franchisees. The Colourplus Franchise Group provides the economies of
scale available via group purchasing
and nationwide advertising.
A monthly fee (4% of the monthly account to Colourplus) goes towards
advertising and other group costs.
Leasehold Premises
Colourplus Taupo operate from modern leasehold premises located
at 5 Gascoigne Street in central
Taupo.
The total store space is 242 square metres with 167 square metres of
retail space. The store has a separate office, staff toilet and 75
square metre storage room. The lease is negotiated every 2 years on the 1st October.
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Plant and
equipment being sold
- Signwritten S-cargo vehicle
- Computer, printer, software
- Phone, fax, photocopier
- Electronic cash register
- EFTPOS terminal
- Microwave oven
- Coffee machine
- Wall decorations
- Display stands, counters, shelving
- Air conditioning unit
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Colourplus ColourCard
Colourplus maintains customer loyalty with the Colourplus Colourcard.
The card provides access to a range of
discounts and exclusive offers, such as the Colourplus range of i.d
paint and wallpaper.
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The ColourCard Benefits
- 10% discount on all purchases
(excludes net specials).
- Invitations to regular 'How To'
Evenings.
- Special member competitions and
promotions.
- Newsletters with special offers and
new product information.
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Day to day management at Colourplus |
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Business
Hours:
Monday to Friday - 7.30 am to 5.00 p.m.
Saturday 9.00 - 12.00 a.m.
Staff:
Colourplus Taupo is operated by the owners with assistance from
two full time staff members. If required, the present owners are
prepared to assist the new owner, terms by arrangement.
Stock:
Stock at Valuation is estimated to be approximately
$100,000.
Licences:
The new owner will need a dangerous goods licence to operate the
business.
Agencies:
Colourplus Taupo are agents for Wattyl/Taubmans, Dulux, and Jacobsen
paints. They operate the exclusive Taupo
Wattyl Trade Depot that services local trade customers. Promotion
and Advertising:
Colourplus Taupo
contributes to the Franchise Group advertising program. The
Colourplus group delivers flyers in newspapers promoting
Colourplus specials. Thus is what the 4% fee goes towards.
Other promotion includes radio, newspaper and TV advertising.
Colourplus Taupo advertisers in the Telecom Yellow Pages and
the Colourplus group promotes online via their www.colourplus.co.nz
Web site.
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Taupo
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Taupo is a resort town at the north east
end of Lake Taupo, New Zealand's largest lake. The Lake and its
tributary streams and rivers are world famous for large fighting
rainbow and brown trout.
Taupo offers a central location, only
a few hours drive to any North Island city. The commercial district
has a variety of retail shopping, restaurants and
entertainment, modern libraries and cultural facilities. All this,
plus ample free parking without traffic jams, makes Taupo a great
place to live.
Lake Taupo is also the focus for adventure and water sports
including jet boating, white water rafting, bungy jumping, parasailing
and skydiving.
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| Business For Sale Details |
Trading
Name |
Colourplus
Taupo |
| Business Category |
Building & Maintenance - Decorating |
| Location |
5
Gascoigne Street
Taupo
New Zealand |
| Business Established |
1995
(as Major Decorating)
1998 (New premises)
2001 (as Colourplus) |
| Title |
Going
Concern Business
Leasehold Premises
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| Asking Price |
Price
on Application |
| Contact |
Paul
Oaten
Stephen Anderson |
| Phone |
+64
7 378 6725 |
| Mobile Phone |
0274
933 813 (Paul)
0274 880 202 (Stephen) |
| Fax |
+64
7 378 9161 |
| Email |
mihl@paradise.net.nz |
| Web |
www.colourplus.co.nz |
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Nearby are geothermal and volcanic areas and Wairakei
Park. Wairakei Park includes the world famous Huka Falls and lots of
visitor attractions.

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