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Sold. Soft Landscaping Contractor Specialising In The Construction And Building Development Sectors

LISTING DETAILS
Firms For Sale ID:
26555
Vendor reference:
EB021
Vendor website:
     
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BUSINESS DETAILS
Location:
Primary sector:
Asking price:
£880,000  
Turnover / revenue:
£630,000
Net profit / cashflow:
Undisclosed
Years established:
20
Number of employees:
8

OTHER DETAILS
Reason for selling:
Having worked in the business for over twenty years the Owners feel the time is right for a change of direction and pass the business on to new Owners to build on the excellent foundations already laid
Support and training:
The Owners are happy to provide a period of training and handover to ensure a smooth transfer of the business.
Business is relocatable:
No
Business is web-based:
No
Business is home-based:
No
PROPERTY DETAILS
Lease terms:
The commercial rent for each unit is between £80 and £100 per unit, per week. Rates for the unit currently used as office accommodation is approximately £1900 per annum with the Rates for the other four, combined, approximately £6,820 per year.
 
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BUSINESS DESCRIPTION
Soft landscaping contractor specialising in the construction and building development sectors

Ref.EB021
Location Kent
Asking Price £ 880,000

Established twenty years ago, this business has worked almost exclusively within the construction industry specialising in all aspects of soft landscaping including turfing and planting, show home and sales area, individual and communal plot landscaping. Such is the reputation this business has built within its sector, its Client list reads like a ‘Who’s Who’ of the building and construction industry, including the names of almost all of the major housebuilders active in the South East.

Based in Kent, this business is sufficiently confident in its own abilities to concentrate on projects much closer to home, providing a high quality and competitive service to an extensive Client list, working primarily within a 50 mile radius and on developments within easy reach of the M25 motorway. This business also clearly knows what it is good at and what it is not, concentrating only on projects it feels comfortable with, ensuring it successfully delivers time after time and lets none of its Clients down.

Over the many years of its 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 very 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 Site Managers and Head Office staff ensuring that even the strictest of deadlines are met, enabling the developer to stay on course with sales projections.

This business is able to meet all requirements, implementing a scheme to a Client’s own design and specifications, working on small and very select developments right through to sites involving in excess of 150 homes. All work is undertaken by fully trained and highly experienced staff.

As a result of the excellent quality of service, this business provides, in almost all cases this business is called upon to maintain the grounds of the developments it has installed, often without the requirement for tendering. Such is the consistency of its performance, it is still cutting the grass on some of the developments it completed over twelve years ago.

Expansion Potential
The UK is set to embark on a significant house building programme in order to meet the huge demand for new housing anticipated over the next decade – with a large proportion of the houses that are to be built likely to be constructed by the current Client base of this business and other developers within its catchment area. Development projects known to be in the pipeline offer a good opportunity to include the Olympic development, the Thames Gateway with huge development also scheduled around the Ashford area of Kent. This business is ideally placed to take maximum advantage of this anticipated growth. Even at present there is ample opportunity to leverage its excellent track record to establish relationships with a number of other builders and developers which are currently active locally and have not as yet used the services of this business.