Any entrepreneur can produce frames, since this type of activity does not require a license.
The production time of one frame is an average of 40 minutes. This is a very popular and promising business. For example, in St. Petersburg, the demand for baguettes and frames is growing every year by 10-15%.
Many businessmen say that the market for baguette workshops is quite free.
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“In Europe, as a rule, baguette workshops are a family business. Each microdistrict has one small workshop. Usually orders are taken by the wife of the owner of the baguette workshop, he himself works at the machine tool, makes frames. ”
But back to Russia. For example, in the aforementioned Petersburg, individual entrepreneurs, not families, are involved in the manufacture of frames. However, the founder can either engage in production, or simply monitor the work.
Recently, this business began to grow more and more. The average turnover of baguette workshops is from $ 2 to $ 5 thousand.
Thanks to affordable prices for cameras, interest in baguette workshops is increasing. About 50% of orders are photographs.
So, what steps do you need to go through if you decide to do this particular business?
Framing workshop: Choose a room
Usually framing workshops are located in basements or outbuildings.
Special framing, as a rule, framing workshop does not require.
The production of frames is a noisy process, so many entrepreneurs prefer to stay away from residential or used premises. Although you can make soundproofing.
In most cases, workshops have several points where they take orders. It would be optimal if the workshop and the collection point are in one place. So you can quickly complete the order, sometimes even in front of the customer.
Framing workshop: Equipment
Equipment costs will be at least $ 6 thousand.
To make frames, you need a guillotine - a machine that cuts baguette profiles of the right size at the right angle, also one stitching machine that fastens the parts of the frames together, and staplers that fix the picture in the frame.
By the way, the guillotine is a silent machine, so your workshop may be located in a residential building. However, with the help of the guillotine you can’t make curly, stucco frames. Therefore, when baguette workshops expand, they buy special saws. The cost of one saw
from $ 3 to $ 12 thousand
But the main problem of this business is as follows: In Russia, equipment for a baguette workshop is not produced.
The best saws and guillotines are made in Italy, France, the USA by large industrial enterprises,
making woodworking machines.
Framing workshop: We select staff
In order to call yourself a baguette master, it will take at least 2 years of work in this production.
The production of frames can be carried out by graduates in the specialty of a carpenter, cabinetmaker and restorer.
Usually, the staff of a baguette workshop consists of 5-6 people: 1-2 masters with assistants, a receptionist and an accountant.
At the initial stage, 3 people work in the workshops: the owner of the enterprise and the master in one person, the receiver of orders and an accountant.
The average salary of a baguette master varies from 6 to 15
thousand rubles.
Recently, much attention has also been paid to the position of consultant designer. This is a person with an art education. It helps customers choose the color, look and shape of the frame.
Framing Workshop: Raw
Raw materials for frames - a baguette profile is never used 100%.
Standard baguette profile - 3 meters. In the process, there is always a remainder. When buying raw materials, this must be taken into account.
In the world there are no more than 4 thousand enterprises that
produce a baguette profile.
At the annual spring exhibition in Bologna (the only one in the world), acquaintance with baguette producers and their products takes place.
Raw materials are usually bought in Moscow or in St. Petersburg baguette workshops, which themselves bring raw materials from Italy and Spain.
By the way, in Russia, all the same, attempts were made to establish the release of a baguette profile, but it did not end there.
Based on the article by Galina Astashenkova for the newspaper Business Petersburg
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