Build a business every bit as beautiful as our home interiors

+35% sales growth in 2022

A thriving retail business enabling you and your team to provide customers with beautiful bespoke yet affordable kitchens, bedrooms and home interiors.

Open your own showroom with a leading global brand

Every home needs kitchen, bathroom, lounge, bedroom and storage design solutions
Schmidt combines German engineering with French design flair
A global brand revered for beautiful made-to-measure kitchens and interiors
A cashflow positive business where customers pay you upfront when ordering
No stock holding – orders are delivered direct from our factory to your customer
Prime territories in our thriving UK network are still available…

Full training: no interior design experience required

Management business – employ your own team from day one
High average sale price per transaction £8.5K - £50k+
The strength of a global brand behind your business
Guidance and support throughout your business journey

Franchisees in the UK have come from a wide variety of backgrounds, all sharing a keen interest in interior design; from senior roles in IT, architecture, engineering and marketing to teaching, F&B, electrical and the kitchen industry itself.

Your role as the franchisee is to lead your showroom team, welcoming prospective customers and overseeing the operation of your business, including an active role in the sales and providing exceptional customer service.

“We have a lot of flexibility for doing the sizes we want, and a wider range of options. It’s a very sustainable, natural product, and all those factors put it above a lot of competitors in the industry.” - Agron Llupa, Schmidt Beaconsfield

OPEN YOUR SHOWROOM WITH JUST £70K + FUNDING

We only make money when you make sales, so we’re as dedicated to your success as you are!

Generate £1M+annual sales

Enjoy over £100K annual earnings

Asset value
£160K+ on exit

Numbers based on established UK franchisee performance, but should not be relied upon as a guarantee of success.

Support throughout your journey

Guidance with forming your business plan and securing lending
Professional property search and negotiations by expert partners
Expert design and fit-out of your beautiful new showroom
A loan from Schmidt for your entire showroom interior fit-out
Full initial and ongoing training and setup support for you…
…and extensive training courses for your employees

Your dedicated UK support team are backed up by experts at head office in Alsace, all working to help ensure your business is successful.

A global brand behind your local business

30	70+	800+	€1billion+
Showrooms in the UK	Territories available	Showrooms worldwide	Global group turnover

Founded in 1959 by Hubert Schmidt, the brand is now owned and operated by his granddaughters who have continued to uphold the strong ethos and culture, building on their family’s legacy. Where global brands of this size are often owned by corporations and VCs more interested in the financials, Schmidt is refreshingly human. Many of the 1,700+ employees at the 5 factories in Alsace plus 1 in Germany, view Schmidt as a job-for-life, ten/twenty/thirty-plus years!

For you and your employees this translates into industry-leading guidance, training and ongoing support. The profitability of your business is vital to ensure longevity and mutual ongoing success.

For example, there has been a drive to empower franchisees to grow their share of the high-margin interiors market, with HQ investing ‎€50M+ in a new factory to satisfy increasing demand.

Find out more

If you are interested in learning more about the Schmidt business opportunity and:

Are passionate about sales, management and design
Enjoy providing excellent customer service
Prefer working on high-value transactions
Want to build and lead your own team
Able to invest at least £70K (+ borrowing)

Then get in touch for a franchise prospectus, which will give you more details on the business, financials and opportunity.

Schmidt Financial Data

The following financial information was provided by Schmidt to give you more information about the costs associated with a Schmidt opportunity

Minimum Investment

£70,000

Total Investment Required

£350,000

Schmidt News

Kitchen fitters’ feedback leads property developer to open his own Schmidt showroom

April 01, 2022

After 15 years among the spreadsheets, he’d already changed career once, moving into property development. When the fitters he used to install kitchens in his properties raved about Schmidt, he took notice of it.

“They really liked the quality and the made-to-measure aspect of the products,” he says, “so I got to know a little bit more about Schmidt and what it offered. It was a natural move to look into the home furniture business.”

As he found out more about the franchise opportunity, he knew it felt right.

“Schmidt came across to me as not just a manufacturer but as a retailer as well,” he says.

“I looked at quite a few other brands but Schmidt ticked the boxes for me. it’s a good business to be involved in. If you look at the home improvement industry, it’s very much growing at the moment. It’s a good time to join.”

Support and Sustainability

Like all new franchisees, he received a huge amount of support from Schmidt on finding and acquiring a site for his showroom, then designing and fitting it out to the company’s very high standards.

He was impressed with the eight weeks of training, too, which covered everything from how to run the business to IT, design trends and styles and what the competition were offering, not just in Beaconsfield but in the UK.

“Schmidt goes beyond a lot of other high-end competitors,” he says. “We have a lot of flexibility for doing the sizes we want, and a wider range of options.

“The company is also run in a very sustainable way. The chipboard and the wood and raw materials come from an area an hour away from the factory.

“It’s a very sustainable, natural product, and all those factors put it above a lot of competitors in the industry.”

Start-up Experience

Drawing on his accountancy background to forecast how the business will develop, he is very happy with everything so far, just a couple of weeks after opening his showroom.

“It’s been good. We’ve had a decent amount of footfall coming in, we’ve had quite a lot of leads coming in as well and we had our first sale last week with hopefully another two this week.

“We’ve done a few discoveries and presentations on top, so it’s looking promising. And it makes you feel you’ve achieved something.

“You come into the showroom and everything you see on display is something you’ve had an input on. I feel at home. It’s fantastic.

“I can’t explain how happy everyone was at our first sale. They saw all the effort and time that had been put in, and to realise our first sale was really something.

“It’s been a great experience, developing not just the business but me as an individual as well.”

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