Superb Decorating Business With Potential For Growth For Sale

Business description

HISTORY
• The vendor has been in ownership since inception in 1996. The company changed to a limited company in 2002 and has an excellent local reputation, with a prestigious and reliable customer base nurtured since inception.

REASON FOR SALE
• The owner wishes to further fulfil lifetime ambitions.

SERVICES
• Commercial and domestic decorators.

CUSTOMERS
• Highly respected and sought after with large and regular commercial clients (10/11) as well as many domestic customers in the Yorkshire, Humberside and Manchester areas.
• District housing and insurance work.

STRENGTHS
• Highly respected with large and regular client base
• Fully trained staff
• Excellent high speed road links to furthest customers
• Location
• Low overheads
• Good relationships with local government agencies and businesses

ADDITITIONAL
• Guild of Master Craftsmen
• Member of FSB
• Safe contractor approved
• Insurance £5 million employer
• Insurance £10 million employee
• Health and safety, employment law through Peninsular underwriters (pay £135 per month for 3 years)
• All vans licensed to carry trade waste
• Registered with local employment agencies
• Own website

This is an extremely lucrative and profitable business, would be an ideal investment for a working partnership or as a ‘bolt on’ acquisition for an existing contractor.


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Property information

Property:

Leasehold

Lease terms:

Rented through the council on a month to month basis at £250 per month including rates

Location:

Trading from a single unit on a council run trading estate in West Yorkshire. Ample parking for customers and staff. Raw material store and company office, secure compound with high fence and lockable gates.

Easy access to both M62 and M1 motorways as well as the A1 trunk road.

Premises details:

• Single storey factory / warehouse unit
• Racked for material storage
• Separate enclosed office space
• w/c
• kitchen area

Business Operation

Trading hours:

Mon to Fri: 7.30am to 4.30pm

Employees:

• The owner full time • 10 full time • 1 part time secretary • All full time employers are CSCS approved, time served MVQ2 minimum, CRB checked. • Some full time employees are IPAF licenced (for use on cherry pickers etc), PAZMA licenced (scaffold erection).