EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST NOW TAKEN ON SELLING THE SHOP & CAFE SEPERATELY IN 2025
For the first time in 18 years, Bendigo Wholefoods has come available for new ownership to continue its vibrant legacy. Bendigo Wholefoods has sustained business operations by supporting two small business families and their teams of locals for over 35 years. This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity allows you to acquire a well-regarded local business with a loyal lifelong customer base that has played a pivotal role in shaping Bendigo's food scene as a much-loved community Foodstore.
The Bendigo Wholefoods venue operates across two adjoining lease sites with three primary business offerings that bring great complimentary value to the overall business operation. These include
- Licensed greengrocer The shop departments include fresh fruits
and vegetables, fresh daily breads, bulk foods, specialty
groceries, fridge freezer deli + liquor while catering to diverse
diets, including organic, chemical-free, gluten-free, free range,
vegan, health, well-being, sustainability, world foods, gourmet,
deli dabbling foodies and many more.
- Health food café The Café is well-established, and its unique
offering has filled a vital health-conscious niche in the market
with a menu dedicated to kitchen-made, wholesome, healthy,
organic, and locally sourced options. The café serves breakfast,
brunch, and lunch six days a week.
- Kitchen Garden Nursery The edible garden Nursery is focused
mostly on growing food and lifestyle and offers a carefully
curated supply and a wide variety of fruit and nut trees, local,
organic, seedlings, and gardening essentials encouraging
customers to cultivate their own gardens and embrace
sustainable practices at home.
This holistic approach to health and wellness creates a comprehensive shopping experience that goes beyond a mere grocery store and is a great addon to the shopping basket of goodness.
The Bendigo Wholefoods venue is in the heart of Bendigo, the regional city of gastronomy, nestled amongst the Lyttle Eat Street Food Traders in the 200+ strong Coles-carpark. This site has a strong street presence and shop frontage, occupying a spacious site of over 550+ m² with huge scope and flexibility as a multifunction business operational space. Additionally, the venue also comes with a much sought-after General Liquor Licence for 200 patrons (125 outside & 75 inside) dine-in plus retail takeaway.
With a stable staffing structure made up of full-time, part-time, and casuals, the team comes with extensive skills, knowledge, experience, and trade qualifications in food business operations and embedded ritual routine operations and business systems, procedures, and checklists. For a new business ownership, this allows the operators to work in or on the business for future business growth and expansion, or to create a great lifestyle around food and community connection.
The asking price includes strong brand recognition, a comprehensive list of plant and equipment, fixtures and fittings, and well-integrated business information (POS, bookkeeping) and operational systems instore and online including strong social media following, industry reviews, 'wholefoodies' loyalty rewards, email mailing list program and a strong customer base allowing the new ownership to hit the ground running with a turnkey operation.
While the business is still on its path to recovery post-COVID, this sale presents a significant opportunity to acquire a well-established enterprise still operating under its true value with long-term sales history and business performance.
