Freehold Garage Specialist In Crash & Bodywork Repairs Servicing Mot Testing Centre | | Undisclosed West Yorkshire | | Freehold Garage specialist in Crash & Bodywork Repairs, Servicing Mot Testing Centre and Used car sales Ref.AL136 Location Bradford,West Yorkshire Asking Price £ 550,000 | | BUSINESS FOR SALE ADVERT DETAILS ADVERT NUMBER : 28228
ADVERT IMPRESSIONS : 72,567 TIME(S) | | | | BUSINESS SECTOR: | Motor & Transport | | TRADE TYPE: | Garages | | SALE: | Agent Sale | FREEHOLD: | £550,000 | | | | | | | | | | Add this business advert to your: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | BUSINESS DETAILS: | The business was established on the site by the owners thirty five years ago and is now a one stopshop for garage services including all vehicle repairs, servicing, bodywork and providing class 1V MOT’s. This is very much a traditional garage, delivering a proffessional cost effective and friendly service with the capability to work on most makes and models of cars. The garage are long standing members of the Retail Motor Industry Federation.
The business boasts an extensive base of regular repeat loyal customers including other garages in the area and private motorists who are attracted by the excellent service, high quality workmanship, reliability and above all honesty and integrity of the business. They are competitive with other local service and repair outlets, differentiating itself by the quality and reliability of its service. They have outlived many local competitors that have fallen by the wayside, whilst this busines has gone from strength to strength.
The freehold premises are located just a short distance from the main city centre close by to the main road connecting to the city. The workshops are well equipped to provide repairs, servicing, bodywork, paint spraying and MOT’s.
Staff have been carefully recruited and trained to ensure that their knowledge and technical ability is extansive and current. Many are loyal to the business with several years of service,and all the staff understand the importance of customer care and satisfaction and the impact it can have on the future success of the business. Consequently they all ensure that customer expectations are managed ,enquiries are dealt with efficiently and work on vehicles is completed on time.
This is a small independent garage with a well equipped workshop offering friendly and genuinely personal service from a first class, well experienced team. It has demonstrated a consistent financial performance throughout its many years of operation under the owners. It is profitable, has no bad debts, low overheads and runs smoothly. It represents an excellent investment opportunity for someone who is looking to aquire a busy local garage in the city of Bradford.
Customer Service:
Customer service and 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 for their customers. The garage is keen to help their customers with a local collect and delivery service or the alternative of a loan car or a courtesy car if required.
Equipment:
As well as all the equipment necessary to meet the requirements for MOT’s, the workshops are equipped with 2 x two poster ramps, 1 x four poster ramp and a single poster ramp.
There is also a centre lift ramp, a steam cleaner, compressors, a gas analyser for petrol and diesel vehicles, all equipment for a body shop with spray guns, sanders, welding equipment and a low bake oven. There is also a four wheel trailer included. A full inventory of all equipment and tools are available to genuinely interested parties.
Key Strengths:
The business has been developed in such a way so that it can cater for the most demanding of jobs. The experience that has been gained over the years gives the garage the knowledge to carry out even the most difficult of tasks. They provide a high level of workmanship and service at competitive rates, whilst honesty and reliability are the watchwords of the company. They have extremely high levels of repeat business and generate new business from word of mouth recommendations.
The company has a complete customer satisfaction mentality. This runs throughout the workforce and helps to make the job successful. All staff are courteous and amenable to their customers, remembering at all times they are providing a valuable service
The business is well run with good cash flow and no bad debt. They have skills and knowledge second to none in all forms of vehicle repair, servicing and MOT’s. There is excellent scope for growth within the company.
Growth and Expansion:
The company has grown steadily over the years and the owners believe that there is an excellent opportunity to take the business forward over the coming years.
They have been trading consistently over the past thirty five years built upon the company reputation and through word of mouth recommendations. The owners believe that with fresh ideas, enthusiasm and motivation from a new owner, the business can grow to a new level.
Key Opportunities:
This is an outstanding opportunity to build on the existing services and customer base of this business. With a strong demand for quality and reliable garage services, the business has an excellent platform to grow from.
The garage has a small amount of used car sales transactions from the premises, but there is plenty of room on the site for a used car lot. They do not at present advertise used car sales although this could easily be rectified with a small advertising budget.
Premises:
The freehold premises are split into two parts with the garage servicing on one part of the site and the body shop being on the other part.
The fully equipped garage has a separate MOT bay with the main workshop adjoining and small office and storage area above on a mezzanine floor. Inside the workshop is another separate area which houses the mechanical repair bay.
The body shop sits separately to the garage and has a panel beating area, a spray room and a low bake oven. Next door there is a shed for valeting and storage.
In total all the premises are fully secured with an alarm system and roller shutter doors. The garage and body shop are heated and there is space to keep circa 20 vehicles at any one time locked up securely on the premises. Outside there is ample parking with forecourts in front of both the garage and the body shop.
Financial profile:
The business is being offered for sale on a going concern basis, all financial discussions will take place directly between the vendor and all interested parties under the auspices of Turner Butler.
The turnover is circa £450,000 per annum
Employees:
The two owners look after the daily running and administration of the business together with the MOT testing.. Within the staff there are five other full time staff and one part time office staff. Amongst the full time workers there are three panel beaters/sprayers and two mechanics.
Support and Training:
The owners would be happy to help out with a smooth transition of the business and help in anyway possible. They are prepared to help for a period of time to introduce the new owner to all of the major connections that the company deal with on a regular basis.
Reason for Sale:
After forty years in the trade the owner is retiring
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