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Prime Retail Opportunity | Westfield Belconnen | Fitout & Lease Assignment
Summary
Take over a specialty nuts, delights and chocolate-coated nuts store in Westfield Belconnen’s fresh food area. Includes loyal local customers, a new fit-out, a website and social media accounts.
Location Details
Belconnen
Location: Westfield Belconnen, Canberra, In the fresh food area near Woolworths at Westfield Belconnen. The shop sits alongside complementary food retailers, offering a convenient setting for customers shopping for specialty nuts, sweets and gifts.
Potential
CricNuts offers a foundation for a hands-on owner to develop a specialty food brand, with the shop fit-out, website, social media accounts and supplier relationships already in place. Opportunities include expanding online sales, introducing gift hampers and corporate gifting, developing seasonal ranges, and strengthening local marketing. Its Westfield Belconnen location and existing customer base provide a starting point for building repeat business. A new owner can continue the current concept or pursue these growth avenues.
Skills
Ideal for a hands-on owner-operator with customer service, communication and organisational skills. Retail or food experience is helpful for stock ordering, product freshness, cash handling and daily shop management. Basic website and social media skills can support growth. It may also suit someone with chocolate or confectionery experience to develop chocolate bark, coated nuts, gift boxes and other chocolate products. Food hygiene, safe handling and allergen awareness are important, with applicable food-safety training requirements to be met
Hours
Currently open seven days a week, 9:00 am–5:30 pm. The model allows you to organise staffing and share shifts.
Lease
Management is flexible on lease terms. A new lease will be negotiated with the incoming owner, subject to approval.
Employees
Currently managed by family members who share shifts and daily responsibilities. The business operates on a hands-on owner-operator model, with a new owner able to organise staffing and shifts to suit their needs.
Reason for Sale
The owner is selling due to personal commitments and is seeking a buyer to take CricNuts into its next chapter. With the shop fit-out, equipment, website, social media accounts and supplier relationships already in place, the business offers a foundation for a hands-on owner to build upon. A new owner can continue the existing specialty food concept or explore opportunities in online sales, gifting and an expanded chocolate range.
About the Business
CricNuts is a specialty nuts and sweets business in Westfield Belconnen's fresh food area, established about one year ago. Its range includes raw and roasted nuts, chocolate-coated nuts and dates, real chocolate bark, Turkish delight and Middle Eastern sweets. Customers include health-conscious shoppers choosing unroasted nuts, chocolate lovers, adventurous eaters exploring international flavours, and Persian, Middle Eastern, Greek, and other communities where nuts and sweets are part of daily life and hospitality.
With loyal local customers and a good reputation, CricNuts combines a nut shop, confectionery store and gift destination. The opportunity is not limited to the current location: the brand and retail concept offer potential for expansion to other suitable locations across Australia. A buyer could develop the concept, adapt the range to local demand and explore additional stores, subject to market research, suitable premises and investment.
Customers already choose their own product combinations for gifts. A new owner could build on this demand with attractive packaging, personalised assortments, hampers, seasonal collections and corporate gifting.
The sale includes the new shop fit-out, equipment, product and packaging stock, established website, social media accounts, brand and supplier list. Product stock is kept lean to maintain freshness. The setup lets a buyer focus on operations, customers, online sales, marketing and gifting rather than starting from scratch.
Chocolate-making or confectionery experience could help develop chocolate bark, coated products and gift boxes. Family members currently share shifts in a hands-on owner-operator model. Management is flexible in discussing lease duration, with a new agreement to be negotiated for the incoming owner, subject to approval.
Best suited to an active owner-operator, couple or buyer with a practical plan for brand development, customer service skills and a willingness to manage stock, freshness, food safety and allergens.
This is not presented as a passive investment or a business with proven high earnings.
Its appeal is the existing setup, location, customer mix and growth potential;
Financial and lease information is available for buyer review.
Competitively priced and selling due to personal commitments.
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