Business Rural Winter 2021

86 | Pole shed company to franchise business Shearing shed with covered yards – Shed Specialists can supply a broad range of utility buildings. Sue Russell I t’s an exciting time in the evolution of Canterbury- based business The Shed Specialists Co, with the timely decision to expand into a franchise company. For Aaron and Emily Nesbit, this ‘next journey’, will see expansion of the services offering across a much wider geography. “We’ve worked very hard to bring into form a great business model. When I first met Aaron, he had taken on a business which, in hindsight, given lack of information, needed a lot of re-modelling. We’ve turned it around out of that experience and created a profitable successful business, one we’re very proud of,” says Emily. RURAL SERVICES » Shed Specialists Ltd Proudly supporting Shed Specialists Ltd www.stewartcontracting.co.nz 03 313 9375 or 027 369 3974 contact@stewartcontracting.co.nz Stewart Contracting Canterbury Proudly working with Shed Specialists on another successful project • to page 88 There’s another reason propelling the couple to make this move, as Aaron explains. “We’ve developed such a great reputation, we wanted to give the opportunity to other people wanting to run their own business and succeed.” The Shed Specialists Co take care of the complete build process and only concentrate on sheds and farm buildings, from lean-to, apex, kit, to architecturally designed sheds. Aaron says every project is carefully planned and managed and The Shed Specialists Co ensures that their due diligence results in building exactly what each customer wants. While the number of farm conversions in the region has slowed down, the ‘life-style block’ sector has proliferated and The Shed Specialists Co can design and supply a broad range of utility build- ings, workshops, storage sheds, liveable sheds and airplane hangars of all shapes and sizes. Asked what has contributed to their achieve- ments to date, Aaron says working hard to build up a network of solid suppliers who give a good rate and have equally high standards, has been important. “By specialising in pole sheds we have all the equipment needed to do the build properly, so our time on the ground in construction is at the absolute minimum.” As an example of their building efficiency, The Shed Specialists Co constructed a three-bay shed measuring 13.5m x 9m, with three roller-doors in two days. “We installed the doors, the guttering, the paper and netting and were finished by 2pm on day two.” Now, the company is expanding, Aaron says his role is moving into business mentoring and supporting those who want to get involved as a franchisee. “We’ve developed such a great reputation, we wanted to give the opportunity to other people wanting to run their own business and succeed.” ADVERTISING IS GREAT FOR BUSINESS! Get new clients with regular print media Phone: 03 983 5500 Fax: 03 983 5552 waterfordpress.co.nz