Wholesale Suppliers of Fruit Vegetables to Restaurants Schools For Sale

Business description

Established in 2000 and aimed at the rapidly growing, highly profitable, healthy eating market, this business specialises in a comprehensive range of high quality fruit and vegetables supplied to restaurants, shops, schools and hotels.

This company has grown considerably over the last couple of years and is now one of the leading independent, distributors of fruit and vegetables in the UK, regularly supplying hundreds of customers throughout the east of England.

This business deals directly with the suppliers, ensuring that its products can be supplied into the trade at a competitive price. With a strong corporate identity and products appearing under its own name the business has established itself as a brand in its own right with all of its products attractively packaged to generate high volume repeat sales.

This business prides itself in maintaining the highest possible service levels. Whilst dispatching some orders by national carriers it takes particular care to keep to its own delivery times as much as is humanly possible, having invested heavily in its own dedicated team of regular drivers, enabling it to provide slot bookings for the large majority of its customers on a next day service.

This is a very well managed, easy to run business. With turnover for the last financial year of £1,200,000 generating a gross profit of £384,000, this represents an excellent opportunity to acquire a well-known brand in the wholesale distribution of healthy, good quality produce.

Equipment:

The business operates a fully computerised system with all clients details maintained on a comprehensive database.

Customer Service:

The business manages many customers in any normal working week who form part of a larger supply chain and has the systems, processes and people to ensure that both productivity and customers' orders are satisfied. The most important aspects of customer management and satisfaction considered by the business is honesty from which comes customer confidence and project turnaround times, which combined are responsible for the business retaining many customers and the reputation for which has led to the acquisition of new customers.

The effectiveness of customer delivery is managed by customer and business, collaborating as the link between customer orders, concerns and requirements and the business's manufacture and supply capacity, thus ensuring that there is a balance of priorities between the customer and the business.
Key Strengths:

An established company, this business enjoys high levels of awareness across its sector. This business understands the importance of branding within its marketplace and has invested heavily in the past to establish a strong brand and a strong corporate identity consistently applied throughout all marketing and promotion. Not the cheapest in the marketplace, the brand is well known for its health food positioning, its wide range of product and excellent customer service. By dealing directly with the suppliers, the business is always able to control the high quality of its product.

Property information

Location:

The business operates form leasehold premises in Norfolk. It is located on a farm, with the building extending over circa 4,000 square foot in total, inclusive of the cold store rooms.

Annual rent is charged at £4.00 per square foot, and a new lease will be granted, subject to negotiation

Other information

Expansion potential:

The current market for this business is competitive but consistent and is forecast in the near and longer term for significant growth. The business is well positioned to take maximum advantage of this growth as it occurs.

Business operations are not at maximum capacity and there remains considerable scope for an increase in production, turnover and profit simply by gearing operations in line with current market demand.

The business is constantly innovating and new product revenue streams can be developed into significant contributors to turnover. Added to this the business currently supplies to customers in only a part of the UK and can easily be expanded to cover the rest of the country.

Competition / Market:

The business has used only limited advertising in the past but has found most success through word of mouth recommendation where a significant number of orders and enquiries are taken. This business would benefit from launching a website, and various other advertising methods including direct mail.

Support & training:

Full support and training will be provided to the successful purchaser.

Reasons for selling:

The current vendor wishes to concentrate on the prime business of the farm from which the business is run from

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