Brand New Restaurant | High Volume Woden Site
For sale is a brand new Restaurant site in the newly opened Bradley street precinct in Woden, the site is 165 square metres of prime Restaurant space and will seat …
Unique Cold Brew Coffee Brand Ready For Growth
With all the hard work already done – establishment of manufacturing facility with permits, supplier and customer relationships, recipe and manufacturing process tried and tested, brand and community developed and …
Inner North Café with no competition | High Volume 5 day business
For sale is a highly profitable fully licensed café in a wealthy Inner North suburb of Canberra trading only 5 days a week. The café has been established for over …
Modern Licensed Burger Bar | Gross Sales $16k per week
For sale is a fully fitted out Burger Restaurant located in the Inner North suburb of Braddon and is trading with sales currently around $16,000 per week. My clients have …
High Turnover 30k per week| Under Part Management
For sale is a well established and attractive café in a bustling suburb in Canberra’s inner North with a high volume of foot traffic. The café is run under part …
Gourmet Burgers & Beer | Under Part Management
For sale is a fully licensed 137 seat Restaurant serving gourmet burgers and craft beer in one of Canberra’s top food destinations. Established in 2016 the business has shown strong …
Established, fully licensed Café | Incredibly priced
For sale is an attractive and well-established café & Bar in a bustling and developing suburb on the North-side of Canberra. With other business opportunities to focus on my client …
Easy to run, profitable cafe | Highly desirable South Side location
The opportunity exists to purchase an established, profitable and easy to run café in a popular and busy inner south suburb well known for being one of the best foodie …
First time for sale in 10 years | Inner South 5.5 Day Trade
If you are looking for a café to run that is both well established and highly profitable then this Inner South business that has been with the current owner for …
Well priced, profitable café in South Canberra | Growing business
For sale is a gourmet café situated in South Canberra in a relatively new retail park. Surrounded by anchor tenants such as Club Lime, Hungry Jacks, IGA and a large …
Affordable Café in South Canberra | Ideal first business
For sale is a small gourmet café situated in the leafy Canberra suburb of Torrens. The shop seats approximately 16 people inside and 30 people outside. Specialising in gourmet coffee …
My name is Robert Illsley, I am a licensed business broker in Canberra that specialises in the sale of Cafes
I am originally from Somerset in the South West of England and in 2000 I married a Wagga girl and moved to Australia in 2007. In 2014 I opened my own Café which I poured my heart and soul into and was able to establish it as one of the towns most prestigious and popular locations for coffee and food. When we decided to sell nearly 4 years later I realised how difficult it was to sell a business, although I felt that I was capable of handling the sale myself, I needed help. I wasn’t sure exactly how to evaluate my business, how to properly and discreetly market it and I found the process quite daunting.
After a number of bad experiences with agents I discovered GSE Business Consultants and it was at this point that I realised how valuable a good business broker can be, the right advice and preparation allowed me to properly prepare my business for market. After using the services of GSE I quickly found a potential buyer and found that I was in a competitive situation with another Café. Because of the way I was able to present my business the buyer felt more comfortable buying my business even though my competition had a bigger business with higher turnover.
I think that at this point a lightbulb went on in my head and I made the decision that I wanted to become a business broker myself. I approached the owner of GSE and thankfully he was looking to expand his business and when I sold Jardine’s I qualified as a business broker in NSW and the ACT and set up my own business operating as an affiliate of GSE Business consultants.
Put simply a good business broker can be the difference between selling your business and having it languish on the market, many brokers are happy to list a business without doing the necessary preparation and do not always increase your chance of selling in a timely manner. In my role as a business broker I intend to bring the same level of service, quality advice and ethical standard as when I owned my Café.
The difference between working with us at GSE compared with other brokers is clear; we only work with cafes, all the brokers at GSE have owned, operated and sold food businesses of our own and we understand the unique challenges that this industry faces. My regional knowledge as well as my background in hospitality means that I can help you to add significant value to your business during the sale process.
If you are considering an exit strategy then please get in touch with me as soon as possible on 0415 243750.
