Overview
The company specialises in the design and construction of contained controlled environment facilities for the biological and horticultural research sectors. Core products encompass a range of unique and bespoke controlled environment glasshouse facilities and research chambers.
Alongside this, the business develops and installs unique cooling technology and equipment for commercial properties.
As a lean and agile business, the company operates with low overheads relative to its turnover, allowing it to offer exceptional value without sacrificing quality, an ideal platform from which a new acquirer can facilitate further growth.
Our clients are now offering the business for sale to facilitate retirement plans, release capital, and to attract investment into the business to facilitate further growth. Offers invited.
Key Highlights
- Can provide a full turnkey service, including design, construction, commissioning, and ongoing maintenance.
- Has developed long-standing relationships with numerous prestigious universities, many of which have reported operating costs up to 50% lower than those of comparable facilities from other providers.
- National client base, works with clients in the horticultural and biological research sectors, as well as materials testing chambers and botanical gardens.
- Has 10 maintenance contracts over eight separate clients, some of which have been in place for over 15 years providing regular, repeatable business. The number of contracts is expected to increase to 12 within the next year.
- Scope for growth through vertical farming, medicinal cannabis production, and data cooling centres.
- Experienced directors in place willing to maintain their roles within the business and oversee future growth.
- Offered as a fully relocatable opportunity.
Financial Highlights
- YE24 turnover of £3.5m, with an adjusted EBITDA of £563k.
- Has a forward order book of projects valued at circa £1.15m, with a pipeline of circa £14.14m over the next five years.
