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Main Contractor With Freehold Offices And Yard In Coventry
Coventry, West Midlands, West MidlandsIdentity protected
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About this business
A Coventry main contractor building small commercial units, extensions to schools and community buildings, and residential blocks for private developers. It owns freehold offices and a yard on the suburban edge of the city, and employs 13 people including contracts managers and a small directly employed trades team. Turnover has eased each year from £3.2m in 2021 to £2.8m, with EBITDA following from £718k to £621k. Margins remain high for the sector, and a buyer with a stronger pipeline of tenders could put the capacity to fuller use.
Key investment highlights
- Freehold offices and yard in Coventry
- EBITDA of £621k
- Team of 13 with its own trades
- Commercial, education and residential work
Reason for sale
The owners want to retire while the business is still strongly profitable.
Read this before you enquire
MaterialRevenue going backwards and one client being too much of it are the two things that end most deals in due diligence. Both are shown here up front, from the figures the seller supplied.
- Revenue directionMaterial
Turnover has fallen in each of the last 4 years, most recently by -2.6%.
- 2021: baseline
- 2022 (-2.0%)
- 2023 (-3.5%)
- 2024 (-2.8%)
- 2025 (-2.3%)
- 2026 (-2.6%)
- Peak 2021 to latest 2026: -12.5%
6 years of turnover, 2021 to 2026, as supplied by the seller.
- Client concentrationNot stated
The seller has not declared what share of revenue the largest clients represent.
No declaration supplied. Client concentration cannot be derived from accounts.
These are observations from the supplied figures, not a view on whether this business is worth buying. Nothing here predicts an outcome.
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What happens next
Submit an enquiry to the seller. Once they approve it, you sign a non-disclosure agreement and gain access to the information memorandum, the financials and a secure deal room with the seller.