Oil & Solid Fuel Central Heating Supply & Installation Business For Sale

Business description

This is an excellent opportunity to purchase a well established family business, which has served the local community with its central heating needs for the past twenty years. The business is situated in the local high street and has a large and well fitted out showroom with over thirty different displays of fires, stoves and surrounds from some of the leading manufacturers for the customers to choose from. All tastes and budgets are catered for and there is always something in the showroom to meet even the most demanding of customers.

As well as fires, fireplaces, stoves and boilers, for which the company is best known, it is also the first choice for its customers looking to install or upgrade their central heating, whether a new boiler or an entire system. All of this work is carried out by a team of hand picked sub contracted skilled and highly qualified engineers.

The company’s aim is to provide an excellent product and service and to provide their customers with a first class after sales service and repair facility. The staff in the shop strive to make sure that this important purchase is a pleasurable experience and friendly and knowledgeable advice is always on hand.

The company spends a small amount on advertising and marketing within the local community, but the majority of their business comes from word of mouth reccomendation.

The business is profitable with low overheads, easy to run and has grown consistently over the years.There is an excellent opportunity to grow the business further for new owners, simply by building on the successful formula that the owner and his team have put together.

Customer Service:

Customer service is paramount to the success of this business. Reputations are built and lost on how good the team are at customer care and they pride themselves on making life as trouble free and simple as possible.

The business maintains an extensive and loyal base of satisfied clientele who appreciate prompt, friendly service, reliability, convenient hours and reasonable yet competitive prices.

Key Strengths:

The business has been developed in such a way over 20 years, so that it can cater for the most demanding of clients. The large display of products in the showroom gives the company the flexibility to cater for all tastes and budgets.

The company has a complete customer satisfaction mentality. This runs throughout everyone and has helped to build their excellent reputation. All of the staff are friendly, courteous and amenable to their clients, remembering at all times they are providing the service to the customer. The company are a registered corgi dealer, a registered HETAS and OFTEK dealer and have a Calor Gas license.

Property information

Property:

Leasehold

Lease terms:

The premises are leasehold and the lease runs until 2012 with rent set at circa £15,200 per annum and rates of circa £4,000

Location:

The business runs from a circa 3,000 sq. ft. high street showroom, storage area, offices and a further storage area upstairs. Outside there is a large secure yard which has security fencing around the perimeter and there is ample parking at the front of the shop for customers.

The premises are leasehold and the lease runs until 2012 with rent set at circa £15,200 per annum and rates of circa £4,000

Other information

Expansion potential:

The company has grown steadily over the years and the owners believe that there are excellent opportunities to take the business forward over the coming years. The advent of the new solar revolution will need new investment and marketing but this is an undoubted area of expansion over the coming years.

They have been trading consistently over the past twenty years and the company have a well established and successful business with a combination of reputation, a first class showroom facility, retail and trade counter and full installation and maintenance service.

Support & training:

The owner would be happy to help out with a smooth transition of the business and help in anyway possible.

Reasons for selling:

The owner has reached retirement age and believes this would be a perfect time for someone to take the business onto the next level.