Buy or sell a business in the UK with The Business Partnership. View our businesses for sale, ask for a business valuation, or get help with buying or selling.
Buy a BusinessAbout The Business Partnership

Contract Packing and Fulfilment Services For Sale

 
Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
 
Advert ref: 3318PS
 
FINANCIAL DETAILS
 
Asking price: £295,000
 
Sales revenue: £200k < 500k
 
Net profit: £100k < 250k
 
Fixtures value: Undisclosed
 
Stock value: Undisclosed

BUSINESS DESCRIPTION
 
The business partnership is pleased to offer for sale this long established business providing contract packaging services to its customers.Typical services fall into two main areas:
• Pick, pack and dispatch.
• Pick component stock, light assembly/process work on the product, pack and dispatch.
The added value created by light assembly and processing of the products and packaging to their customers’ requirements has created a loyal customer base and allows the business to charge additional fees for their services.
The business has a warehousing facility used for storage of customers’ products and process of dispatch orders. The business charges its customers for storage space utilized, orders dispatched and an hourly rate for the process work on products.
Carriers are contracted out and are paid direct by their customers. Dispatches are usually either direct to retailers or to distributors. The business uses its own transport to drop and collect product to outworkers.
The business has developed a reputation in a niche market that often requires hand finishing and this type of requirement is ideally suited to the services provided by the business. Component stocks are picked and sent to out workers for processing, followed by collection and dispatch. The business now has a number of national market leading compaines in this sector who are very closely tied in to the business due to the specialist nature of the service offered.
The business loses very few customers because once set up, providing standards are maintained, there is little incentive for customers to switch.
New customers are primarily generated through recommendations and word of mouth.


GENERAL INFORMATION
 
Property: Leasehold

Lease terms
The business currently occupies 8,000 sq ft of warehousing. The current lease expires at the end of 2009. The purchaser could negotiate a new lease with the landlord.


Competition / Market
Very loyal customer base with very little churn


 
The Business Partnership - Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire
 
ADVERT OPTIONS

View full business details (PDF file) >>
Get Adobe Reader

Add to 'My Folder' >>
You can enquire on multiple businesses using this facility.

Register for Business Alerts >>
to receive businesses like this via email as they are added to our site.

Back to businesses for sale list >>

Links >>
 
© 2003 - 2008 The Business Partnership
 
Name: Business Partnership (Management) Limited
Registered Office: Meridian House, Road One, Winsford Industrial Estate, Winsford, Cheshire, CW7 3QG
Company Number: 4459291    VAT No: 797 8848 30