The one stop shop for startups and scale-ups.
Hatch is the place where small businesses owners get what they need to open a physical store.
We’re rewilding the high street one small business at a time
There is a common misconception that renting a shop is much like renting a flat. Unfortunately it’s not that simple.
As a commercial tenant, you are required to commit to a longer lease (5 or 10 years typically) and become responsible for the repair and maintenance of the building. You will also need to invest significant sums refitting / refurbishing the property at the start of the lease to make it your own.
All in the hope of making a profit at some point in the future. When you get it right, it will transform your business.
But to get there, you need to navigate what can be a complicated and time intensive-process.
National restaurants, retailers and high street brands pay advisers to simplify the process of opening store and maximise its chances of success. But the advice comes at a cost that’s often too great for smaller businesses.
This is exactly where Hatch comes in. We provide small businesses with the expertise they need to open a successful store on the high street of their choice, but in an affordable way.
Our Mission Is To Revive The High Street
Exciting new brands and restaurants give high streets a point of difference. Independent business owners offer consumers expertise and a personalised shopping experience, not obtainable online.
It is our belief that these small businesses give people a reason to visit the high street and are key to its revival. By rewilding the high street with budding startups and ambitious scaleups, they will once again become the vibrant, buzzing places that connect communities.
By helping you achieve your goal of opening a physical store, we get closer to achieving our goal of reviving the high street.
Why Physical Retail and Why Now?
Don’t be fooled by what’s written in the media about the ‘death of the high street’.
Now is the perfect time to open a store or expand your business into new locations. Physical retail is becoming cheaper as rents and rates decrease, and less risky as lease terms become shorter.
At the same time, online is oversaturated making it hard to get noticed. Meta and Google Ads, required to drive traffic to your website, continue to rise in cost. Whilst online marketplaces take 20% of your profit.
Why have a bricks and mortar store?
Engage with customers face to face
Grow brand awareness
Higher conversion rates
Fewer returns
Product development and feedback
Opportunity to upsell
Increase social media following
No postage costs and less packaging
Build brand loyalty
Subsequent growth in online sales
Higher margins
Customers can handle products and see the quality
