- Long established
- Excellent name and reputation
- Loyal workforce of longstanding skilled employees
- Able to provide a wide range of ‘in-house’ manufacturing covering welding and machining – not very common in its operating area
- Comprehensive range of specialist sub-contractors used to enable the company to offer a wider range of services and thereby provide customers with a complete package, i.e. ‘one-stop solutions’
- Longstanding relationships with loyal customer base
- Business premises offered with a lease (but freehold could be made available)
- Extensively and valuably equipped for its trade
- Turnover £1,116,325 (Net Profit £185,148) y/e 31st March 2024
- Genuine scope to significantly increase trade (no marketing undertaken, yet plenty of capacity to take on extra custom)
- Owner (M.D.) wishes to work in the company for a new owner to ensure smooth transition and to assist with engineering and future growth
- Offered at an attractive price to encourage early sale
- Unique lifestyle opportunity
- 4 diesel and 3 unique eco-friendly electric hire boats
- Exclusive use of 6 mooring/recharging points along the canal
- Established family business
- Only available for the 2nd time in 40 years
- Large detached residential property, hire office & workshop
- Lease for ½ acre of wharf
- Additional lease for 72 metres private rental moorings
- Outbuildings for storage, information point & gift shop/chandlery
- Covered haul-out slip & maintenance berth
- Operating licence authorises up to 12 hire boats
- Serviced hire fleet moorings
- Easy access from M4/M50 and Abergavenny train station
- Very long established
- Highly respected, popular and profitable business
- Enviable customer database including many long-term ‘regulars’
- Excellent base facilities (including on-site garage workshop operated by own mechanics and a 7-bay modular office suite) with easy access to M5 and A30 trunk route
- The 5.1 acre freehold property also includes a (tenanted) 3-bay warehouse and also a very large tarmac surfaced yard (used by other firms for parking their vehicles as well as by the subject business) and a tarmac surfaced access road with side/verge also used by others for parking smaller vehicles– all of which produces a very significant rent income – and an area (within the secure yard) for stacking shipping containers for sale and off-site hire
- Extensively and very valuably equipped for its trade
- Turnover £5.48m including rents income (Adjusted Net Profit approx. £1.2m) y/e 31/05/2024
- Constantly having to turn away business opportunities!
- Genuine and enormous potential for further expansion of trade
- Retirement Sale
- Well established
- Excellent name and reputation
- Able to rely entirely on repeat and recommended trade
- No marketing expenditure needed
- Currently managed by owner on a part-time ad-hoc basis working from home
- Offered for sale on a relocation basis within the South West
- Turnover £130,000 (Adjusted Net Profit £61,000)
- Real scope for significant business expansion
- First time on the market
- Genuine retirement sale
- Vendor happy to provide new owner with training/guidance as required
- Long established and highly successful company
- Excellent name and reputation for product availability and speed/quality of service
- Thousands of parts stocked for all motorcycle makes and models – making next day deliveries possible most of the time
- Operated by management and first rate team of experienced and knowledgeable individuals
- Turnover £2.19m (Adjusted Net Profit £175,000)
- Real and significant scope for further expansion
- Well organised and equipped for its trade
- Ideal investment opportunity for new owner
- Company to be sold due only to enable trustees of late owner’s (deceased in 2022) estate to execute his will
- Very attractively priced to encourage quick sale
- Very well established
- Excellent name and reputation
- No marketing support required to promote the business – able to rely heavily on repeat, recommended and referred custom
- Vast majority of work conducted within 40 mile radius of business base
- Trade splits 50/50 commercial/domestic custom
- Supply and installation service offered, but approx. 75% of manufactured items purchased on ‘supply only’ basis
- Turnover £391,431 (adjusted net profit £111,285) y/e 31st October 2023
- Genuine scope for further expansion of trade if required
- Extensively and valuably equipped for its trade
- Company (or business) offered with a lease on business premises (or with freehold property if preferred)
- Vendor looking to retire
- Attractively priced for early sale
- Well established
- Excellent name and reputation
- Providing services to customers throughout South West and into South Wales and across to Oxfordshire
- Operated almost entirely under management
- Turnover £1.5m (Net Profit £172,000)
- Real and significant scope for further business expansion
- Extensively and valuably equipped for its trade
- Retirement sale
- Attractively priced for early transfer
- Well established
- Excellent name and reputation
- Benefits greatly from a high level of repeat, referred and recommended trade
- Operates throughout Devon and Somerset and into parts of their surrounding counties
- Comprehensively and valuably equipped for its trade
- Highly skilled, reliable and loyal workforce
- Managed by husband and wife directors
- Turnover £1.2m (adjusted operating profit £383,058)
- Genuine scope for considerable further expansion
- Available with rented business premises or on a relocation basis
- Retirement sale
- Well established
- Operating mainly across England and Wales
- Wide range and high number of commercial and private clients
- Benefits greatly from very high level of repeat business
- Operated by Managing Director (the business founder) and 8 directly employed specialists (with additional support from a consultant director)
- Business expanding at a fairly rapid rate
- Turnover £533,000 (adjusted Net Profit £118,000) y/e 31/03/2024
- Well and extensively equipped for its trade
- Offered for sale at attractive price to encourage early sale
- Long and well established
- Operating mainly within a 40 mile radius of its base
- Well located in good quality business premises
- Comprehensively and valuably equipped
- First class name and reputation
- Able to rely heavily on repeat, referred and recommended trade
- Impressive trading record
- Turnover £426,000 (Net Profit £149,000)
- Management accounts for the first six months show a 21% increase in turnover and an increased gross profit margin
- Genuine scope for significant further business development
- One of the two company directors will be more than happy to stay on if required
- Attractively priced (to produce an excellent return on investment) to encourage an early sale
- Long and well-established
- First class name and reputation
- Able to rely heavily on high level of repeat, recommended and referred custom
- No need for marketing support to promote the business – regularly having to reject work opportunities due to high demand/lack of capacity
- Highly capable, multi-skilled and loyal workforce
- Turnover £392,000 and Net Profit £92,000 in year to 31st October 2023
- Good level of Work-in-Progress and Order Book value in hand
- Realistic scope to significantly increase profit margins
- Offered for sale with rented business premises or on a relocation basis if preferred
- First time on the market
- Retirement sale
- Attractively priced
- Long and very well established
- Excellent (highly visible) trading location
- Extensively equipped to high standards
- Highly skilled and loyal workforce
- Benefits from regular repeat and recommended trade
- Turnover £189,000 with net profit of £78,000 in year to 31st March 2024
- Genuine scope to increase trade – owner has been satisfied with current sales/profit levels and operating 8.30 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. Monday to Friday only, whilst employing a relatively low level of marketing activity (given business expansion has not been on his agenda)
- Health issues cause owner to want to retire
- Business offered for sale with a lease or with the freehold property (owned by our vendor client)
- INCREASED PROFITS PLUS A PRICE REDUCTION
- Very long and well established
- First class name and reputation
- Provides a broad range of services for cars and light commercial vehicles of all makes, including MOT testing, repairs, maintenance, servicing, engine installations and bodywork (tyres and exhausts fittings are sub-contracted to specialists at discounted trade prices)
- Highly experienced and fully qualified vehicle technicians
- Operates 5 days per week only
- Turnover £315,000 and net profit £105,000 in year to 31st January 2024
- Genuine potential to further expand trade
- Offered with freehold premises (but vendor willing to consider selling business with a lease)
- Offered for sale to enable operating owner to retire due to serious ill health
- Very well established
- Readily transferable into new ownership
- Considerable ongoing regular income from rented equipment and extended warranty contracts
- Turnover £226,000 (Net Profit £23,000* in year to 31st March 2024) - * Please see N.B.3 in Trade section
- Trade was higher in years prior to the Covid-19 lockdowns but it is now emerging strongly from those times
- Genuine and considerable scope for business expansion
- Price reduction – owner keen to retire
