Leasehold Trade Engineering Sign Manufacturers For Sale

Business description

Bag a Business Ltd is delighted to offer to the market a fully bespoke sign manufacturing company. Established in 1983, it has seen massive growth over this period and turnover is currently over £1million per annum, with a gross profit of 40%.
It prides itself on the highest standards of quality and customer service operating in the main to the trade sign sector (70%). The company also boasts a number of direct blue chip national accounts (30%). The core product ranges through medium to large scale decorative sheet metal, to structural steel sign fabrications. fascias, pylons, canopies, monoliths, built up letters, bespoke metal shapes, large format clocks, water features, feature signage, special projects and single to multi run programmes.

The company operates within 2 major sectors of the sign industry and has the potential to grow far beyond its current sector position.

Trade services:
The trade sign service covers the technical design support and manufacture to over 100 sign companies within the UK and Ireland, manufacturing a full range of decorative and structural products, from a simple fret cut rolled fascia to full suite retail park structural pylons, root cages LED and hot cathode illumination to suit each project, supplying the product as a semi metal finished chassis, or as a complete spray coated, electrics ready for client to install finished product. The base product range being, aluminium, brushed and polished stainless steels, mild steel, de-scaled stainless steel, acrylics, PVC's and composites.

Direct retail:
The direct retail client base is within the food store to superstores and the petrol service station arena, to design manufacture and install all end products to re-brand projects, within this field the company also produces internal superstore bulkheads designed manufactured and installed, these may form part of the internal structure of the building and can often be manufactured in a mix of steel and composites.

Sign solutions:
It is not unusual for a trade client to request technical design build support, as is often the case, the project may be too large for most general sign companies to handle without large scale product knowledge, in this respect the company come into their own. Technical design and build solutions are used regularly within the companies direct petro chem and food retail sector.

New Product:
The company has developed a range of in house bespoke metal sign products that we plan to take to market within the next 6 months. Following successful trials we have also completed a range of LED digital displays targeted toward the petro chem industry, these units have been out to trial over the last 12 months and offer significant benefits against the standard euro range currently available, again we plan to market this range of product from the middle of this year.
We feel that this is a very unique opportunity and as interest is expected to be very high, early viewing is essential.

Additional Information
The shareholders would consider selling of the company out with the sale of the factory, and are prepared to discuss the proposal as a leasehold sale.

Property information

Property:

Leasehold

Living accommodation:

Factory unit located within a medium sized industrial estate and comprises of 16,000 sq feet steel portal factory with 12,000 sq feet of land-yard. Briefly comprising: Ground floor, front reception area, ladies and gents toilets, meeting room, main office, production office. factory floor. engineering, spray shop, canteen, stores, toilets. First floor. offices, client account, drafting, estimating, sales, sales support, boardroom. Factory. Graphics production, pattern making, digital printing, milling programme processing. Outside: Front car park for 15 vehicles, side yard approx 5000 sq feet includes part car park, container area with two 40ft containers, steel stock area, large automatic roller door to factory side entrance.

Location:

South of Scotland 45 minutes from Edinburgh, 60 minutes from Newcastle.

Other information

Support & training:

Personnel Managing director, Director, company secretary. Sales director. Technical director and 20 staff.

Reasons for selling:

Reason For Sale The Managing director shareholder is planning to retire in September 2008. The company secretary shareholder (Director) is also planning retirement in April 2008.