Businesses for Sale

• 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) with easy access to M5 and A30 trunk route
• Extensively and very valuably equipped for its trade
• Turnover £6.1m (Adjusted Net Profit £1.16m) y/e 31/05/2022
• Constantly having to turn away business opportunities!
• Genuine and enormous potential for expansion of trade
• Retirement Sale

• Established and very successful
• Well-known and popular brand name
• Enviable reputation for quality of goods and services
• Trade mainly focused on commercial customer trade, especially within the building, construction and landscaping sectors
• Circa 1,350 account customers
• Business operated almost entirely on a ‘fully managed’ basis (owner has very minimal part-time involvement)
• Turnover £6m+ (Adjusted Net Profit £661,000)
• Real scope for further development
• Offered for sale to enable owner to embark on a totally different business venture (having been involved in the merchant trade sector for the past 28 years)

• 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 promote the company’s business
• First rate, highly skilled and flexible workforce
• Turnover £1.6m (adjusted net profit £458,000)
• Order Book approaching £400,000
• Genuine and significant scope for further business development
• Very fully and valuably equipped for its trade
• Excellent business premises
• All in all, a first rate business investment proposition

Site Area : 0.724 hectares (1.79 acres approx.)

LOCATION : The Chuley Road site is located to the south of the centre of Ashburton. The area already contains a mix of business, light industrial, retail and residential properties.

Ashburton is located in the heart of South Devon and is situated within the Dartmoor National Park yet is still only 25 minutes’ drive from the South Devon Coast. It lies alongside the A38, almost equidistant between the cities of Plymouth and Exeter making it…

• 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 price to enable the directors/shareholders to fully retire

• Long and very well established
• Excellent name and reputation
• Able to rely heavily on regular, repeat and recommended trade – little need for marketing support expenditure!
• Circa 750 customers (with well over 900 garage premises)
• Turnover £1.67m (abridged net profit £240,000).
• Genuine scope for significant further development
• Operated from home by husband and wife directors (with all engineering and sales staff working from their houses)
• Readily relocatable without disruption to the business
• Owners’ 4/6 bedroom house optionally available if wanted
• Retirement sale (following husband’s recent heart attack)
• Attractively priced to encourage early sale

• 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 £281,636 (Net Profit £104,615) y/e 31/01/2023 (figures annualised)
• 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

• Established and very profitable business
• Excellent name and reputation
• Little need for much marketing support to promote business – able to rely heavily on recommendations and repeat trade
• Fast expanding customer demand for post-sale services (which is leading to a sharp rise in profit margins!)
• Turnover £500,000 (adjusted Net Profit £150,000)
• Valeting services in relation to hot tubs at holiday lettings properties – a rapidly expanding market – proving to be very lucrative
• Real scope for significant further business development
• Reliable, loyal and well-trained staff
• BISHTA membership
• Retirement sale
• Current owners willing to provide some training, help and advice to ensure a smooth handover of the business into new ownership

• Long and very well established
• Excellent name and reputation
• Able to rely heavily on repeat and recommended trade (and from enquiries from own website and leads from product suppliers)
• Very capable and loyal workforce
• Turnover £622,430 and Adjusted Net Profit £146,825 (y/e 30/09/2022)
• Genuine and very significant scope for further expansion
• Available with or without existing business premises
• Retirement sale

• Very well established
• Excellent name and reputation – able to rely heavily on repeat, referred and recommended trade
• Operating mainly in Plymouth but also within a 15 mile radius of the city (at Saltash and Tavistock)
• The company’s business is operated remotely – so business premises not required
• All cleaning operatives (18) and an Accounts/Contract Manager, as well as the two directors, are directly employed by the subject company
• Nearly 98% of total income is derived from 41 regular commercial clients (21 of which are subject to contractual arrangements and 9 which have an annual renewal, whilst 11 receive regular miscellaneous services from the company’s specialist sub-contractors)
• Turnover £300,000 (£95,000 adjusted operating profit)
• Genuine scope for significant further trade development
• Will undoubtedly appeal as a highly attractive alternative business proposition to individuals as well as to existing cleaning companies seeking to expand via acquisitions
• Managing Director averages about 20 hours per week working in the company’s business and he will be happy to assist a new owner for an agreed period to ensure a smooth and successful business transfer
• Retirement 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 £402,000 (£148,000 adjusted net profit)
• 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 standing and well established business (since 1985), at the current larger premises since 2000 under the same owner
• A thoroughly respected local name and reputation, with a large and loyal customer base
• Well sited 203m2 industrial unit with easy access to major trunk road
• Opportunity to install ‘Class 7’ M.o.T facilities
• Turnover £240,000. Net Profit £132,000
• Consistent, steady business from loyal customer base as well as business from new customers that have heard of the excellent reputation and standard of trust in services that the business delivers
• Scope for expansion - often forced to turn business away
• Retirement sale following many decades of successful business

• Well established
• 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 retirement sale (and attractively priced to encourage early sale)

• Very well established
• Readily transferable into new ownership
• Considerable ongoing regular income from rented equipment and extended warranty contracts
• Turnover £233,000 (Net Profit £49,000 in year to 31st March 2023)
• 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

• Well established
• Excellent name and reputation
• Highly skilled and reliable workforce
• Niche market operator whose ‘branded’ products are becoming increasingly popular
• Turnover £227,000 (Net Profit £48,000)
• Genuine scope for significant further business expansion
• Very well (and valuably) equipped for its trade
• Offered for sale as owner wishes to emigrate

• First time on market
• Long and well established
• Enviable good name and reputation for excellence
• Able to rely heavily on repeat, recommended and referred business – so little need for significant market spend to promote the business
• Approx. 50% commercial and 50% domestic trade
• Mainly (circa 90% of total trade) conducted within a 15 mile radius of Bath
• Certain types of flooring enquiries declined – thus providing opportunity for a new owner to expand the company’s range of work if desired
• Turnover £510,000 (Adjusted Net Profit £169,000) y/e 31/01/2022
• Genuine and significant scope for further business expansion
• PRICE REDUCED - OWNER KEEN TO RETIRE

• One of the UK’s leading bespoke staircase manufacturers
• Operating entirely at the high end of its market
• First class name and reputation – long and well established
• Operated by owner without staff (uses sub-contractors and specialist UK suppliers)
• Turnover £192,000 (Adjusted Net Profit £64,000) in year to 30th September 2022
• Trade purposely restricted to suit current owner
• Genuine and very significant scope for business expansion
• Owner seeks lifestyle change (and wants to spend more time with his family)
• Recent project featured in Grand Designs – The Streets on Channel 4

• Very well established
• Really good name and reputation
• Excellent trading location
• Extremely successful and profitable
• 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

• 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 £404,000 and rising (net profit £77,000 – in our opinion real scope is much higher)
• 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
• Current financial year projected to achieve £198,000 turnover (as the business now returns to normal trading following the lifting of Covid-19 lockdown restrictions) and £58,000 adjusted net profit (after rent on business premises)
• 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)
• Business offered for sale with a lease (freehold property owned by our vendor client)
• Serious health issues causes owner to want to retire
• Attractively priced for early sale

• Long and very well established
• Excellent name and reputation
• Able to rely very heavily on repeat, referred and recommended trade
• Operated from home and almost entirely Monday to Friday only and very selective in terms of work acceptance – rejects about half of all enquiries received (preferring to accept the bigger and more lucrative jobs)
• Husband and wife owner operators (both p/t) with one employee (f/t)
• Turnover £153,000 (adjusted net profit £73,000)
• Genuine retirement sale
• Very attractively priced for quick sale (due to deteriorating health issues) and available with or without vehicles

• Long and well-established, niche market business
• Excellent name and reputation
• Able to rely heavily on repeat, referred and recommended custom, so no need for marketing expenditure to promote trade
• Turnover approx. £162,000 (adjusted net profit £56,000) in current financial year.
• Genuine and significant scope for business expansion
• Business available with a lease in respect of currently used business premises or on a relocation basis if preferred
• First time on the market
• Attractively priced for an early sale to enable the owner to retire

• Ideal for new sole trader/family owner or for incorporation/diversification within an existing business
• Full EC Whole Vehicle Type Approval for complete caravan/trailer range
• EU Trademark copyright of business title
• Award winning products and highly favourable trade press recognition
• Iconic and easily recognisable design inspiration enhancing product recognition
• Unique product range with significant bespoke flexibility applicable to the leisure market and a wide range of outdoor event commercial applications.
• Significant parts of production process outsourced
• Current owners willing to offer training to new owner/s as required
• Post Covid trading level and current business sale motivated by deteriorating health of one director

• Established 1982 and under current ownership since 2003
• Prominent position on main city access road
• Very large spread of clients with 100+ account holders with many more casual clients
• Many income streams across the wide range of services offered
• Rented (out of contract) premises covering three floors
• Turnover £175,000 and net profit £23,000 for the year to 31st October 2022
• Accounts for the year to 31st October 2023 are not yet available but management figures show a turnover of £184,000 was achieved
• Fixed assets valued at £25,000. Stock around £18,000
• Team of experienced staff
• Retirement sale