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Asking Price
£59,950
Description
This is a well established business that has been trading successfully for the last 8 years.
The owner started the going concern since inception and is now reluctantly selling due to a desire to retire.
The business is involved in the following aspects of trailers: new and second hand, with all types and sizes which are bought, sold, for hire, part exchange, buy back as well a built to order or customers can build their own.
Our client will purchase any condition trailers at a fair price with immediate cash.
The owner also offers a service where by customers can buy as they build chassis from stock, together with a range of trailers which are easily assembled and dismantled for storage.
The business is in a fortunate trading position in that it is the only such business in Leicestershire to provide such services.
There is only one other retailer in Leicestershire who is much more expensive than our client and provides for fewer services.
In fact, the two businesses actually work together and provide referrals to one another and work in conjunction quite often.
Our client has regular clients from many parts of the country. This has been achieved as our client has been placing advertising stickers on all the trailers he sells. This is a practise that he introduced three years ago.
There is a web site in place which is averaging 800 hits per months. This is an area where a new owner familiar with the internet could generate a vast amount of sales by placing basic fast moving lines on the site (ie, top 3 sellers) together with light
boards' as well as displaying component stocks.
Our client runs the business on very limited hours to suit his own lifestyle on a semi part time basis. In fact, he only visits his storage facility when meeting a potential customer by phone appointment only.
A new owner on working full time basis would increase sales by merely being on site during trading hours as well as by:
1. Providing a chassis assembly service
2. Providing a hire out service
The vendor is willing to assist any new owner to ensure smooth continuity. He resides with a short driving distance and has offered to provide assistance is required.
Stock at cost is in the region of £10,000 - £12,000.
REF: 8959LE
Advertising has been restricted to the Yellow Pages, a monthly magazine and a weekly Leicestershire paper at a budget of £4,000 per annum.
A niche business that would ideally suit a new purchaser who has basic fabrication skills and is willing to open during normal trading hours.
A willingness to add additional functionality to the web site would dramatically increase sales also.
It is rare to find a business with virtually so little competition, together with vast scope.
One must view early in order to avoid disappointment.
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