Refrigerated Couriers and Distributors For Sale - North West , United Kingdom

Asking price: £450,000

Sales revenue: £641,000

Business description: Serving the UK and Europe, this well-established delivery service provides temperature controlled quick, reliable deliveries to a large base of commercial, retail and industrial clientele and accounts. The business is highly regarded by its patrons who appreciate the company’s dependability, prompt on-time service and total dedication to customer satisfaction. With lots of growth potential and an advantageous fast-growing area, this business is a prime candidate for strategic positioning in the region. Founded by the current owner in 1998, this family business has grown to become a highly professional, dynamic express delivery services provider, supplying quality-driven overnight delivery and collection solutions throughout the region. The business has been built on over 9 years of expertise, commitment to customers and good business practice. Through organic growth, the business today comprises of seven company vehicles backed by substantial investment in technology, vehicle fleet and employees. With long experience in delivering logistics solutions, this successful business has the expertise and resources to provide flexible delivery services, which meet the real needs of customers. The fact that all the vehicles are capable of delivering and storing perishable products, and goods, means that this Company has become the business of choice for many of its key customers. The business demonstrates real expertise in managing time-critical distribution and deliveries. This type of business rarely comes on the market and offers an investor the opportunity to play a major part in this growing niche sector of temperature-controlled deliveries Clients: The Company currently has a client base of accounts totalling over 450. These range from small/medium enterprises to blue chip corporations who value the niche abilities of this superb business. Customer Service: The business is obsessed by customer satisfaction, and provides solutions that meet customer requirements, ensuring a reliable and friendly service. The motivated and highly skilled staff pay strong attention to detail and offer excellent value for money and fast and flexible delivery times, maintaining a competitive edge. It is the policy of this business to provide high quality services on time and in accordance with the agreed customer requirements. This quality policy is in line with organisational goals and expectation that revolve around the needs of customers. Key Strengths: The success of the business is based on the experience and dedication of its staff. The workforce prides themselves on their unsurpassed customer care, reliability and flexibility. The business has established an excellent reputation for exceeding expectations and meeting client's individual needs, ensuring that all consignments that are undertaken and promised are honoured. Clients benefit from a specialist, deadline delivery service, tailor-made to suit each individual delivery and storage requirement. • Very well established business providing high customer service levels • High level of self sufficiency, giving competitive pricing and fast turnaround • Low overheads • Enviable customer base • Comprehensively trained staff • Simple administration • High technical skill is not a requirement in order to attract and recruit staff • Excellent operating margins • Excellent working relationships with clients Key Opportunities: This firm maintains an extensive base of satisfied clientele, who appreciate superior service. There are many excellent avenues for growth, especially with additional staffing and adding more vehicles to the existing fleet. In our opinion, there is excellent potential to expand the prestige end of the business by using more aggressive marketing and advertising, offering more commercial and overseas services. • Opportunity to introduce a marketing and advertising strategy to increase turnover • Excellent growth opportunities to widen the sales area • Excellent opportunity to build on existing base and grow with new enthusiasm • Franchise the business model • Add this business onto a larger existing business • Increase the number of depots

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Location: Cheshire Based Business

Expansion potential: The Company's current base of blue chip customers has provided significant growth and expansion. Building on the Company's outstanding services and customer base would enable the Company to immediately and dramatically accelerate its growth. There are many excellent avenues for growth, especially by providing basic marketing, there has never been any telesales or marketing or sales professionals employed. The current market for this business is buoyant 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.

Competition / Market: The business has built up an excellent advertising base and uses a variety of methods to promote it services including trade awareness. A high proportion of the business’s revenue is due to strong word of mouth recommendation, bearing testimony to the excellent reputation it has throughout the industry. The Company achieves No1 on all its search engines There are many opportunities to market the business further, and excellent scope to enhance the current website, enabling clients to browse the available services online.

Support & training: The owner will provide full business familiarisation, training and handover.

Reasons for selling: The owner is in his late fifties wishes to retire following the successful handover of the business. Having spent the last 17 years developing the business the owner recognises the business could grow significantly by the influx of new marketing skills.