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This week’s selection is a novelty pushchair business in Milton Keynes, priced at a mere £15,000.

Visit any shopping centre in the UK and, along with bored looking teenagers and ‘soothing’ pan pipe music, the chances are you will find plenty of energetic children. Looking to capitalise on this, Kiddy Cabs has set up a franchise at the Milton Keynes shopping centre, offering stressed-out parents the chance to keep their offspring entertained in a fleet of colourful novelty cars.

Kiddy Cabs has three years still left to run on a contract with The Centre:MK, which is one of the largest shopping malls in Europe. A further five-year contract will be up for grabs after the current agreement expires.

This easily run business allows customers to hire out the novelty cars to children for a set time. The simplicity of the enterprise, lack of competition and the easy access to parents with young children means that there are few overheads.

Established for over two years, the current owner employs three part-time staff and hires out the mini cars eight hours a day Monday to Saturday and six hours a day on Sundays.

Obviously, a friendly, child-friendly attitude would be helpful if you have aspirations to run this venture. The present owner will be available to provide on-site training, which should take just half a day.

The business makes around £32,000 a year in sales, achieving £15,000 in profits.

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