How to open a sales department

No matter what economists say, more and more Russians are involved in active shopping. Every day new shopping centers open and old ones are modernized. Is it time for you to open a department in one of the hypermarkets?

Instruction manual

1

Analyze market conditions in your area. Decide which product your department will specialize in. Please note that when you open a department for the sale of, for example, alcoholic beverages, you will have to draw up additional documents and licenses.

2

Choose a shopping center that provides its premises for rent. When choosing a center, be guided by the demand for your products in this area of ​​the city, the presence of transport interchanges, its proximity or remoteness from the city center. If you trade, for example, household appliances, decide what is best for you: to settle in a shopping center specializing in similar products or open a department in a hypermarket where you can buy goods of various kinds.

3

Create a business plan for your future venture. Consider all the numerous overhead costs that are inevitable when starting a new business.

4

Open a bank account. Register with the tax authorities IP or LLC, depending on what type of product you are going to sell. Get a certificate of registration, extract from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities or Unified State Register of Legal Entities, statistics codes and register the seal of your organization with MCI. If necessary, get all licenses and certificates.

5

Rent a room for the future department and a storage compartment in the mall. Check out the general terms of trade at this center. Agree in advance with the management about renting advertising space in the center. Check with the management the contents of the signboard of your department, after asking in advance whether it should be designed in the same style for the entire center or can be ordered according to an individual sketch.

6

Buy all the necessary equipment or rent it from the owners of the shopping center. Buy a shipment. Manufacturers of many types of goods supply branded equipment with company logos along with the products. This will help you save on purchases of goods, but the placement of such equipment should be agreed with the administration.

7

Hire staff and conclude an agreement with the security company in charge of this shopping center for the provision of security services. Conclude a cleaning agreement with the center’s administration, as well as storage and handling operations.