Summary

There is a huge opportunity for an investor to join an experienced baker/entrepreneur into starting and rolling out bakeries in SA.

The entrepreneur has 28 years of experience at a local national bakery as an engineer, plus 7 years at a different national bakery organization before moving overseas and gaining more information about the latest technology of equipment to be used in a bakery.

The entrepreneur now returned to SA and is ready to start and roll out bakeries throughout SA based on solid business plans compiled by professional consultancy organizations.

Although the concept mainly concentrates on baking loaves of bread, products like biscuits/rolls/cakes/pies can be added.

The scientific formulas for white/brown bread have been carefully worked out to produce the best fresh nutritional bread imaginable.

Capacity to bake the breads have been realistically worked out to produce 351,360 loaves per month.

The equipment to start the first and forthcoming bakeries have been sourced from overseas and agreed upon by the manufacturer as a fixed supplier The target market will be to supply the lower income groups with an affordable loaf of bread with all the necessary nutrients.

The premises for the first bakery has been secured and ideal for the target market at this stage according to research, there is a shortage of 1,4 million loaves of bread per annum in SA.

Finances:  

The costing to bake 1 loaf of 700g bread is R4 per loaf taking all the costs into consideration- full costing is available the idea is to sell such a loaf for R10, thus much lower than existing selling prices in national supermarkets.

Investment needed:

R1,8 million- conditions etc. can be discussed with an investor.