Starting a business takes times, resources, and dedication, as well as a huge amount of courage. To add to it, finding the perfect place for business is always an uphill task. Commercial rentals are always high in prices and choosing the wrong location may kill your business in no time.
Shipping containers is revolutionizing how people set business premises around the world, and the trend is slowly being witnessed in African cities. There is a huge rise of container shops, restaurants, offices, and classrooms and many more.
The famous giant boxes mostly used in transporting cargo are now hosting businesses of types in our busy cities. They are affordable, eco-friendly, and movable making it easy to switch locations when things are not working well for your business! But what kind of business can you start and run in a converted shipping container?
Discover 7 most amazing businesses you can start in a s converted shipping container.
- Caffes Shop/Bars/Restaurants
Shipping container bars, restaurants, and cafes are rapidly getting famous. With their unique designs, they sure turn heads around and give the ‘Guest Experience’ and completely change the way your you interact with your customers.
Shipping containers appeal a particular demographics. They are trendy and you will find them popping up in areas frequented by youthful, trendy, hipster clientele. You have a chance to start and a run booming bar, caffe, restaurant business. They provide a blank canvas in terms of style giving you a room to decorate and customize them into distinctive spaces. They are pretty good for a iconic branding which great for your business. If you are looking for a great business idea then a container Caffe, Shop, Bar or Restaurant might be your best bet.
- Office Space
Office spaces are on high demand and prices are skyrocketing.
For instance, in Nairobi, the average annual cost of renting office space per employee is Kes 360,000. This is providing opportunities in two ways: 1 you can build office spaces out of shipping containers and save on monthly rent or you can build container offices and rent them out to give you monthly income.
Shipping containers also may brand your business in way that it speaks to your target audience. A trendy shipping container may speak to your audience more than a shiny top floor of a corporate building.
- Container Fuel Station
Shipping container concepts is slowly getting recognition in the oil and petrol industry. Building a traditional fuel station can be costly and time consuming. Shipping container fuel station comes with a lot of flexibility and can fit in tiny spaces and still give high volumes in sales. It is a concept that is highly scalable, and it takes short time to build. You only need to get all the approvals and certifications right for you to start your operations.
- Container Shopping Complex
You can build an entire shopping complex, and this would reduce your construction time and cost of construction as well. You can stack the containers into floors to create a multi-story establishment which would provide perfect location for hosts weekend markets, exhibitions, and performances.
This is a great business opportunity for you to create out of shipping containers.
- Yoga Studio
The polarity of Yoga is touching every corner of the universe.
Many people than ever before are taking to their mats to recharge their bodies in incomprehensible ways! Yoga Spaces are expensive to hire and they always have the same have the same concepts which can be monotonous. Shipping containers can provide a remarkably interesting option for this. It can help you build iconic spaces for Yoga activities that would attract many customers. It’s always important to stand out from the competition. Holding classes in a container may boost your yoga business.
- Bicycle Mechanic
A plush, fancy store is unlikely to tick the right boxes for a mechanic. A hardened steel structure is more likely to fit the bill. It fits the stereotype better!
Just as they make great workshops, shipping containers would be ideally suited to a bicycle mechanic too. The size would match up to the demands of the job; the traditionally Spartan nature of containers would suit the oil and grime that often comes with the territory.
- Mobile Clinics
With the booming populations in the African continent there is a steady rise in demand for affordable healthcare service. Shipping containers can be converted into clinics and can be moved to almost any location.
Container clinics will take up small spaces saving up on the cost of rent, and with their unique nature will quicky attract customers. Another advantage is that it is highly scalable, and you can build a clinic that fully fitted with labs and pharmacy.
For any inquiries about container solutions, you can reach us through. info@ismcontainers.com, +254 (0) 110 126 747 or visit our showroom at Ananas Centre, Westlands, Nairobi.
