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Relocatable Online Pond And Bog Garden Plant Retailer For Sale

Carmarthenshire, UK
Asking Price:
£70,000 Furniture / Fixtures and Inventory / Stock included
Turnover:
£115,000
Net Profit:
£51,000

This is a great opportunity to buy a long-established turnkey business operating in a resilient and growing market. The current owners have been successfully running the business for just over 9 years, and it has provided a good and consistent income of between £42k - £66k over the last 7 years.

  • Established 20 years
  • Very good reputation and 5* Google and Trustpilot reviews
  • Good level of repeat business from existing customers
  • Mixture of B2C and B2B customers
  • Nationwide sales
  • Strong high domain authority website

This is an ideal business for a couple to run as owner managers, and offers plenty of scope for future expansion if required or can be run more as a lifestyle business as has been done up to now.

Please note the net profit figure stated is based on Seller's Discretionary Earnings, i.e. before owners drawings and any avoidable personal expenses. Stock levels are approximate and will depend on time of year, with £10k - £15k of stock having a retail value of £30k - £40k.

Property Information

Location:

UK

Premises Details:

The business is fully relocatable and is currently based in the owners' garden. It takes up less than 0.2 acres, including a 42' polytunnel. The polytunnel is included in the sale price if the purchaser is happy to dismantle and collect. A small amount of storage space would be needed for boxes, accessories etc and a covered area (we use the garage) as a dry space for packing.

Business Operation

Management type:
This business is owner operated.
Expansion Potential:

The business could be expanded by introducing a greater variety of plants, a broader range of pond related accessories or by extending into general garden plants, shrubs and accessories. Pond services such as cleaning, maintenance and construction could also be offered locally.

Margins could easily be expanded by growing a greater proportion of plants from seed, plugs and bare root.

No marketing is currently undertaken so the business could grow significantly by investing in advertising, Google ads, social media or signing up to some of the major ecommerce platforms like Amazon, Ebay and Tiktok. There are also (lower margin) opportunies to move into wholesaling.

Competition / Market:

Competition arises from other online resellers and to a lesser extent garden centres, although many of these either don't have aquatic centres or stock a very limited range.

Reasons for selling:

Retirement

Trading hours:

Website 24/7.

Employees:
The only employees are the 2 owner managers. Work is full time during the main growing season (March to July) and part time outside these months.
Years established:
20

Other Information

Support & training:

Full training for purchasers and on-going support post sale if needed

Furniture / Fixtures value:
£8,000 - included in the asking price
Inventory / Stock value:
£15,000 - included in the asking price
Home based:
This business can be run from home
Relocatable:
This business can be relocated