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Landscape Construction Contractors


Ref.EB023

Location Essex

Asking Price £ 60,000

Confidential offered for sale

Location: Essex – Fully Relocatable

The business is financially stable and has performed consistently in the last two years with turnover for the financial year ending March 2006 of circa £100,000.

Asking price includes:

Turnover for the financial year ending March 2006 of £100,000
Reputation for quality work at a competitive price, completed on time
Substantial loyal Client base including Local Authority contracts
Huge opportunities and expansion capabilities
A trusted and respected name
Goodwill
Finance available to buy this business subject to status. All regulated business is passed to independent financial advisors who are regulated by the FSA

Business profile:

This business specialises in all aspects of soft landscaping including turfing and planting for individual and local government landscaping. The business has built an excellent reputation within its sector and now has a client list that includes local authorities who contract the business for the up keep of public areas and parks.

Founded on the back of extensive expertise, the business places great emphasis on quality of workmanship and value for money. This philosophy has enabled it to be highly successful. 95% of business is currently local authority, with 5% in the private sector.

Based in Essex, this business is sufficiently confident in its own abilities and concentrates on providing a high quality and competitive service to an extensive client list, working primarily within a 50 mile radius and also on developments within easy reach of the M25 motorway. This business clearly knows what it is good at, concentrating only on projects it feels comfortable with, ensuring it successfully delivers time after time and lets none of its clients down.

Over the years of operation this business has gained a unique insight into the specialist requirements of the construction sector, being large enough and flexible enough to deal very effectively with large scale projects and varying volumes of work, but above all providing reliability and integrity.

This business places great emphasis on quality in all things it does and is particularly responsive to client needs, maintaining a close personal contact with clients, ensuring that even the strictest of deadlines are met.

This is a very well run, established business with an excellent reputation and an extensive repeat client base. With turnover for the financial year ending June 2006 of approximately £100,000, this represents an excellent investment opportunity for anyone looking to acquire a major player in construction landscaping in the Essex area.

Equipment:

Machinery orientated, the business have invested in a modern and well maintained fleet of machines to provide maximum efficiency for a wide range of services
Customer Service:

The business is an excellent opportunity to invest in an established name that prides itself on good old-fashioned customer service.

The business offers excellent personal assistance from initial design to the finished product, ensuring consumers do not settle for anything less than exactly what they want. The company communicates well with its clients throughout the job, and ensures that the have a good understanding of each stage of the process.

The company has the highest of Health and Safety standards, and always ensures that the work site is left clean, tidy and most importantly – safe. Only quality equipment and materials are used with the correct specifications to ensure overall customer satisfaction.

Key Strengths:

Very well established, this business has built an excellent reputation within the landscaping sector for completing high quality works on time and on budget. This business appreciates more than any, the importance of reliability and the difficulties its clients face when attempting to complete large scale projects on time.

It is structured in a way so as to be very flexible but above all responsive to client requirements, dealing with client instructions, and responding to their requirements. Not surprisingly, this business can boast an extensive base of long standing clients.

Growth and Expansion:

There is no reason why this long-standing, well-established business shouldn’t continue to grow. With investment into advertising and new energy injected by the new owner, it is anticipated that turnover could increase by at least 20%.

There is considerable scope for an increase in the private sector market. The business has the capabilities for expansion with the obvious benefits of increased turnover and profit that could be achieved simply by gearing operations in line with current market demand.

Key Opportunities:

This company presents an excellent opportunity to focus on advertising and commence Internet bookings. As it is already established in its surrounding area, the new owner would only need to concentrate in expanding into other areas to increase bookings and turnover.
Premises:

Currently the business rents a small barn on farmland, which could be made available to the new owner if required, the rent to be negotiable at the time of sale.

Business Hours:

Flexible to suit the owner.
Advertising and Marketing:

Well established, with an excellent reputation within its specialist sector, this business has little need of advertising benefiting greatly from the most effective form of marketing available, word of mouth recommendation.
Financial profile:
The business is offered for sale as a going concern. All financial discussions will take place directly between the vendor and all interested parties under the auspices of Turner Butler.

The business is financially stable and has performed consistently in the last two years with turnover for the financial year ending March 2006 of circa £100,000.
Employees:

Owner operated ,supported by one full time employee.
Support and Training:

Full business familiarisation will be provided to the successful purchaser.
Reason for Sale:

Retirement
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