London Plumbing And Heating Company With Substantial Customer Base For Sale

Business description

HISTORY

• Established by vendor in 1973 as an independent plumbing and heating contractor serving customer base throughout north London
• Business grown through word of mouth and referrals with excellent local reputation
• Well known local name with up to 25 engineers in the past
• Website introduced with considerable focus on search engine optimisation and quality lead generation
• Full Gas Safe accreditation
• Very much run as a family business

REASON FOR SALE

• Retirement

SERVICES

• Gas boiler and central heating systems
o Installations
o Servicing
o Repairs
o Power flushing
o Safety certificates
• Wide range of plumbing related services
• Contract maintenance work undertaken
• 24 hour emergency call out number

CUSTOMERS

• 100% domestic customer base
• Servicing customers throughout North and North West London, Enfield, Barnet and Hemel Hempstead
• Approximately 3,000 customers on the books with excellent records maintained
• 200 customers under annual maintenance contracts
• Website attracts additional interest
• Exceptionally high repeat rate maintained

SUPPLIERS

• Consumables sourced from range of trade outlets
• Accounts with main manufacturers

STRENGTHS

• Well established
• Excellent reputation locally
• Large and diverse quality repeat customer base
• Good quality record keeping
• Location ensures potential access to large number of new clients
• Vehicle included within consideration price
• Buyer will benefit from search engine optimisation work and referrals from a range of trade based websites
• Strong financial performance with good consistent level of profit











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Property information

Property:

Leasehold

Lease terms:

• Currently run from home
• Fully re-locatable within North London

Location:

• Fully re-locatable business with customers within a sensible radius of London N15
• Ideally positioned to allow additional customer and staff recruitment within north London
• Within easy striking distance of a range of potentially lucrative customers
• Densely populated urban location

Premises details:

• Currently run from office at home
• 2 sign written vans included within consideration price
• Quantity of sundry tooling and equipment

Business Operation

Expansion potential:

• Business development activity to attract additional customers
• Expansion of customer base beyond existing geographical boundaries
• Employment of additional heating engineers
• Oil fired central heating work
• Focus on additional commercial contracts
• Ideal to be run as a family business

Trading hours:

• Office hours Monday to Friday 9am to 6pm
• 24 hour emergency number

Employees:

• Vendor • 2 qualified heating engineers employed within the business • Part time administrative support from various family members

Other information

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Home based:

This business can be run from home.

Relocatable:

This business can be relocated.