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Business for Sale Overview:

Established for nearly twenty years this is a diverse cleaning business offering probably the widest range of cleaning services available in the UK today. Built upon a very solid foundation of carpet and upholstery cleaning – working in both the domestic and commercial fields, this business also offers a stain removal service, hospital and nursing home clinical cleans, Kitchen deep cleans, Hydro Pool cleans and even cleaning and preservation of hard floors including marble and wood. This business also gets involved in much more specialist and highly skilled areas such as trauma cleans, fire and flood cleans as well as grafitti removal. And if that weren’t enough, this business also has a rapidly growing wholesale and retail chemicals business, has a number of UK agencies for the distribution of cleaning equipment – both retail and hire as well as being one of the leading, if not the leading, cleaning training organization in the UK.

Property Features and Assets:

The business operates from leased warehouse style, modern premises of approximately 2,300 square feet including a mezzanine floor incorporating the training facilities. The premises, located on a small industrial estate offering easy access to all areas of the South East via excellent motorway links are leased with five and a half years to go of a 6 year agreement with a break available towards the end of 2010. Rent is £9,600 per annum with Rates which are currently being re-negotiated of £2,300 per annum. The business also has access to storage facilities enabling it to clean and store fire damaged material on behalf of its customers used as and when required and billed to its customers accordingly as well as a Removals company for wrapping of items for storage and, or shipping etc.

Market Competition and Expansion:

This business utilizes a very structured approach to marketing and advertising carefully honed to maximize its effectiveness over its twenty or so years of operation and tailored to each of its different revenue streams. The business has a presence in all the major directories – Yellow Pages and Thomson's in all appropriate sections and undertakes direct mailings, e-mailings and fax marketing. Even its cold calling is carried out to a tried, tested and trusted formula involving actual product and service demonstrations. The business has a very well designed, informative and easy to navigate web presence – common to all areas of the business – which performs very well in all the major search engines for all appropriate search topics. By far the most effective marketing for the business however is the very strong word of mouth recommendation and high levels of repeat business this company generates, testimony to the high levels of customer satisfaction it creates and its excellent industry wide reputation.