Large Successful Eastern Cape Automotive Body Shop For Sale

Business description

This highly successful and profitable body shop has a reputation that has been established over a period of some 48 years.

It is renowned for it's quality workmanship, and personalised levels of customer service. The business has a large and established cusomer base, and is approved by all of the major motor manufacturers and retailers. The business is an approved assessment centre for several major insurance companies, and it boasts a highly trained and stable workforce, which, together with state of the art equipment and processes, ensures that customer's expectations are exceeded, and that sales growth will continue.

The asking price includes a BEE subsidiary business, as well as a separate business geared towards short turnaround times on small repair jobs.

The Stock Value quoted below is estimated, and includes Stock, Work in Progress and Confirmed Orders. This amount will need to be finalised at the time of sale.

Property information

Real Estate:

Lease

Location:

The business is extremely well located in a safe, light industrial area.

Other information

Expansion potential:

Current debottlenecking activities will increase throughput by an estimated 30%.

Competition / Market:

Governing bodies, influence of insurance companies, and sought after approval status from all major motor manufacturers and/or distributors, ensures that the barriers to entry to compete at the top end in this market are relatively high, and that the number of true competitors is relatively limited.

Support & training:

Minimum of 1 month training & handover, negotiable for longer if necessary.

Trading hours:

07h00 to 17h00, Mon to Fri

Inventory / Stock value:

R600,000