| IK150-wooden interior window shuter |
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United Kingdom
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INDUSTRY
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BUSINESS SUMMARY
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Design, supply and installation of wooden interior window shutters
Confidentially offered for sale
Ref. no:IK150
Location: London
Asking price: £295,000
Established over twenty tears ago – and widely recognized as being one of the very first businesses operating in this sector, this business in one of the leading suppliers of wooden interior window shutters in the UK. As the exclusive UK distributor for one of the world’s leading brands, this business offers the widest range of superb quality products including shutters with adjustable louvers and solid panel shutters – all finished in a range of painted and natural finishes.
With the increasing trend in interior design away from the more traditional furnishings and certainly away from blinds, shutters have become an increasingly popular product. Because of their high quality and fine furniture finish the shutters offered by this business have become the preferred choice of many of the world’s leading architects and designers. Not surprisingly therefore this business can rightly boast a broad base of architects, specifiers and interior designers amongst its Client base, with approximately 40% of the turnover of this business arising from this sector.
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BUSINESS FINANCIALS
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GENERAL COMPANY INFORMATION |
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Organization Structure: |
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Headquarters/Main Location: |
Home Based
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Time on lease/mortgage: |
N/A
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Is Business Relocatable? |
No |
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MARKET OUTLOOK/COMPETITION
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| To build its brand, this business invested heavily in the past in advertising and marketing featuring in all the up-market homestyle and lifestyle glossies including Ideal Home, Elle Decoration, World of Interiors etc as well as the major trade magazines aimed at Arhitects and Interior Designers.
Locally the business has also appeared in the free distribution lifestyle magazines published by local Estate Agents. Becoming very well established the business had little need to maintain such high levels of investment, maintaining a much more modest presence, which has been further scaled back due to the Owners’ plans to ease into retirement.
The business has a very well designed, informative, easy to navigate website which performs very well in all major search engines for all appropriate search terms, but the vast majority of business comes from the most cost effective marketing of all – repeat business from previous customers and strong word of mouth recommendation, testimony not only to the residual awareness of the brand itself but the excellent reputation the business has built for high quality product, high levels of customer service and excellent standards of fitting |
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DETAILS ABOUT THE SALE
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Support & Training
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The current owners will provide all necessary training and all relevant contacts to ensure a smooth transfer of the business and continuity of trading |
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Reason for Selling
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This is a genuine retirement sale. |
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Is Management Willing to Stay?
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No
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Are You An Intermediary?
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No
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Web Site Design
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