Laundury business uae?

Question

I am thinking of starting a laundury business in the uae, what i want to know is there a demand for it you know a place with washing machines where people come to wash their clothes. How much would one take to set up and how much would the licence cost and of coures how much could a place like that earn gross and net.

Answer 1

I'd check out books like the ones at Entrepreneur magazine:

http://www.smallbizbooks.com/cgi-bin/Sma...

...see if the library has this to review before buying, to make sure it's what you need. Then search Amazon.com and eBay for used versions and other types in the field.

Here's to your success, by the way! Worked at one of those in college and it was fun :)

Answer 2

First of all you would need a local sponsor to open up a business. Earns would all be net because the UAE is still tax free but your sponsor might demand more than tax would be.

I do not think that there is a big demand for a laundry business where people wash their own clothes. In every residential areas you find laundries which pick up dirty clothes, wash, iron and deliver them back home. This service is very cheap that I do not think that people will drive their dirty clothes around, wait until it's washed and then carry it back home.

Another problem for many bachelors would be transportation because many of them do not own a car and I can not see people standing on the street with a basket of dirty clothes waiting for a taxi or take the bus.

Anyway, to rent some business property in the center of Dubai or Abu Dhabi would cost you a fortune.

To much hassle and not enough demand to make a business like this in the UAE profitable.

Take care.