- Excellent name and reputation
- No previous experience or expertise required
- 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…
- Operating mainly across England and Wales
- Offers Development & Conservation Services and Advice
- 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
- Turnove…
- Well established company
- Simple yet extremely effective business model
- Very attractive & high profit products with unique marketing strategy
- Products sold from high quality, hand-built and LED illuminated display cabinets at hotels and leisure businesses
- 93 display cabinets located at 86 sites throughout Britain
- Easily managed by 2 partner directors and 2 members of staff (1 full-time merchandiser and…
- Part of a very well known, popular and successful franchise network operating throughout the U.K.
- Excellent name and reputation for high quality work
- 270 clients
- Well trained and reliable workforce consisting of an office/accounts administrator and 25 cleaners (including supervisor)
- Offered for sale by our vendor client who wishes to take a break from business (having just relocated her home out of a…
- Well-established with an excellent name and reputation for quality and service
- Provides a full service from digital templating to installation (and also supplies the same quality stone products to those who wish to fit themselves, but this represents only 1% to 2% of total sales)
- Able to rely very heavily on repeat, referred and recommended trade – so, little need for marketing activity to promot…
- Very long and well-established business with a first rate name and reputation
- Sizeable customer database, including circa 600 regular purchasers
- Business successfully operated under management
- Very capable, motivated, flexible and dependable workforce
- Trades Monday to Friday only
- Turnover £1.422m (adjusted net profit £282,722)
- Business premises offered with existing lease
- Offered for sale at attractive…
- Well established with excellent name and reputation
- Particularly well known for its experience and capabilities in designing and producing bespoke products
- Enviable customer base throughout the UK
- Highly skilled and loyal workforce
- Turnover £400,000 (Adjusted Net Profit £105,000+) projected for y/e 31st March 2023
- Real scope for further expansion of trade (and profit margin improvement)
- Genuine retirem…
Holiday Let Property cleaning business change hands
Home & Away South West, based in Cornwall, offers holiday let cleaning and was established in 2006.
In recent years the business has been owned and run by husband and wife, Lee and Claire Ames and they expanded the business to offer additional services to cleaning such as caretaking, key holding, welcome packs plus arranging tradespeople to take c…
Plumbing and Heating Business changes hands
Based in Exmouth in Devon, Westmancoat Plumbing and Heating Contractors was founded in 1962 and has been providing its services within a 20-mile radius of its base.
Being in the hands of the Sommers family since 1972 the ethos of the business has been to offer apprenticeships and train its engineers. All the current technical staff and plumbers…
Wright Clean Ltd
New Owner at Commercial Cleaning Business
Established in 2003, Wright Clean Ltd. offer professional cleaning services across a range of sectors, including offices, retail, food industry, healthcare, industrial, logistics and manufacturing.
The Plymouth based business has been owned since 2013 and, after deciding to retire, instructed specialist business transfer agency, Bear…
- Very well established business with good name and reputation
- Extremely successful and profitable
- Excellent trading location
- Skilled and loyal workforce
- Enviable and expanding customer database
- Turnover £718,000 (Adjusted Net Profit £109,000)
- Genuine scope for significant further business development
- First time offered for sale
- Attractively priced to encourage early sale to enable owners to retire
MARK…
Mike Claire Textiles
New owner for rash vest business
Established in the 1990s as a clothing manufacturer Mike Claire Textiles, based just on the Devon side of the border with Cornwall, evolved to become principally a manufacturer of rash vests catering mainly for the surfing and swimming market. With bright colours and offering printing of logos, the business has built up an excellent name a…
K.S. Automotive was started by Keith Stenhouse in 1986 and shortly after became KSA. In 1998 the business became a limited concern and took the name of ASKKSA Ltd after the marketing the business had used in recent years. If you required some equipment for your garage workshop, you simply had to ask KSA.
Together with his wife Marion, Keith grew the business for it to become the leading provide…
Spyrys – the spirit of Cornwall
Based in North Cornwall Spyrys Spas & Hot Tubs offers, sells, installs, services and repairs as well as offering valeting of their product range. Customers are both private buyers or landlords of holiday properties coming from across Cornwall and Devon.
The business was established by husband and wife, Brian and Sharon Kennelly in 2012 and has grown to a team o…
- Enviable name and reputation
- Very little needs to be spent on marketing to promote the business
- Excellent and well equipped business premises
- Located in the centre of a very large trading estate. N.B. The city of Exeter has about 30 vehicle dealerships – the vast majority of which (about 25) are to be found on the subject trading estate – and this is understood to be the highest density…
- Well established with excellent brand and reputation
- Akin to a niche market business and the UK’s leading supplier for VW T1, T2 & T3 elevated roofs
- Uncomplicated and easily operated on very easy hours basis
- Manufacturing outsourced (fitting work could also be sub-contracted)
- Turnover £343,350 (Abridged Net Profit £138,000)
- Significant real scope for trade expansion (and particularly in respect of exp…
‘THE ORIGINAL PASTY HOUSE’
* AN OUTSTANDING INVESTMENT & EXPANSION OPPORTUNITY *
- Highly successful independent café, takeaway, collection & delivery service business operating from very prominent, highly visible and easily accessible city/town centre locations in Plymouth & Tavistock
- The Plymouth outlet was very successfully “modelled” on the initial Tavistock business and has demonstrably proved …
- Separate trading names, branding and trademarks (wholly owned by the subject company) for the coffee and milkshakes aspects of the business
- Very high level of repeat and recommended trade
- Enviable customer base
- Operating mainly throughout Devon
- Turnover £450,000 (Adjusted Net Profit £83,000)
- Real scope for significant further development
- Comprehensive and very valuably equipped for its trade
- Retirement …
- Operates mainly within a 40 mile radius of its Okehampton base
- Excellent name and reputation
- Able to rely heavily on repeat and recommended custom
- Extremely well equipped to high professional standards
- Projected turnover (as at end October 2021) for y/e 31/12/2021 = £155,783 (Adjusted Net Profit £88,501) despite Covid-19 restrictions during the first half of the year
- Forecast turnover for 2022 = £182,…
- Impressive growth of wholesale trade with etail clients
- Offers next day delivery to all parts of Great Britain for all orders received by noon
- Very successful and profitable
- Easily managed – current owner/director usually works in the business just 3 to 4 half days per week (including from home)
- Good, loyal and flexible staff – including a manager who is fully capable of controlling the business (a…
The Polished Wheel Company Limited in Wadebridge, Cornwall is now under new ownership following the sale but it will be business as normal.
The business was established in 2008 by Sandra Fennell and her late husband Gary and offers a complete alloy wheel refurbishment service, including diamond cut wheels, to both trade and retail customers.
Looking to take a step back Sandra decided it was tim…
- Excellent name and reputation for property preservation, restoration and conservation
- Undertakes work on residential, commercial and listed buildings and properties of particular architectural merit
- Turnover £430,000 (Adjusted Net Profit £173,000) but very scalable and with real scope for much higher
- Turnover £263,500 in first six of 2021/2022 with adjusted net profit £113,000 (estimated figures fro…
Countrywide Grounds Maintenance is a national franchise of 46 territories, offering services including soft landscaping, tree works, hedge trimming, lawn maintenance, invasive weed treatment etc. The franchise territory covering Cornwall and West and South Devon was established in 1988 and is operated from a depot just on the Cornish side of the border near Plymouth.
The franchise model is prefe…
Belaf organises language study holidays in England and was established in 1975. It has more recently been arranging individual French student placements but originally arranged school trips for French students who, with their teachers travelled to England, stayed with host families and enjoyed excursions to attractions, sights and cities across the south of England. The style has been for the stu…