Thriving Road Haulage Business with Lucrative Shipping Container Sales/Hire & Crane Lorry Hire Trade - Devon Based

Price : £5,600,000

Business Reference No. 12765

  • 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

THE BUSINESS : Established in 1958 and acquired in 1982 by the current owners, the business was incorporated in 2002.

The company’s business has earned a deserved excellent good name and reputation for the provision of first-class haulier services, executed with speed and precision. It understands the need for reliability and efficiency, as well as competitive pricing, as being customers’ top priorities. It therefore tailors its services to meet those requirements in spades! State of the art tracking technology is, of course, used to ensure that customers can be kept informed where their loads are at all times and a diverse fleet of haulage vehicles are use...

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