Summary
Growing landscaping business with three components fully integrated for optimal efficiency for sale, Bayside areas in Melbourne: commercial contracts, private gardens and garden installations.
Revenue
$250,000 pa
Rent
$10,200 pa
Location Details
The business yard is in Heatherton, Vic (3300m2) while the commercial accounts are all S Side Melbourne: Albert Park to Clayton. Brighton is the centre. The remaining private gardens sprinkled between. Nepean hwy v good connector and or Dandenong Rd
Potential
There is huge potential to grow of this excellent base. Given the commercial accounts provide, easy reliable work 44 weeks per year for two people (mornings), one could expand through our websites and do more landscape installations or add private gardens. There's a huge residential install market for $5-25 k projects and you can do those over weekends or employ others. Machines included in the price. Truck, Kanga, trailer and other. See below. You could expand the nursery side of the operations as well, beyond putting stock into jobs- retail.
Skills
This would suit anyone with outdoor trade experience. It would be an advantage to have garden, landscape, horticulture or nursery background, but We'd offer a 2-6 month handover and train you up easily in that time. The commercial accounts need to be secure assets to the new owner, so this worth the transition anyway.
Hours
Normal M-F but most of the works can occur over weekends too. Starts on site 7:30 am is good.
Lease
The yard site in Heatherton is cheap for 3300m2 at $850 per month. There is more room to expand as well.
Employees
We have used 1-2 plus the owner, and we have 1 ATM. They can be used most effectively on the commercial maintenance sites, as the work is easy, predictable, so not much supervision is needed.
Reason for Sale
Semi-retirement and tree change.
About the Business
The business is comprised of three parts, which mesh really well.
1. Commercial garden maintenance accounts
2. Private gardens
3. Garden installations
With the yard space and mini-loader it's really easy to optimise on green waste and loader use. Chipped waste can be sold back to the commercial sites of disposed for free (after initial charge to bus). And the loader gets charged out on the sites too or loads in the yard.
A simple way to expand is to take on garden installations in the residential sector and put in plants from the nursery/yard to boost the margins. Synergy is key.
As indicated, the core commercial accounts are highly valued and give a simple, steady base the the operation AM's for two workers 45 weeks per year.
Machines in the sale include (or not sold with, upon neg)
-Kanga 2024 diesel wheeled 70hrs
-BT50 2017 110000kms
-chipper
-trailer
-yard assets: ship container, shelter, windbreaks, bench, bays, tanks, pump, power etc.
-nursery assets: rocket pots etc
-two websites
The nursery, the fourth component coud be expanded as well. We already have a website for this.
History
The owner established the business as a tree farm in Central Victoria in the 0s. He relocated to Melbourne for family reasons and refitted the business for the garden sector in 2017 then added the leasehold yard in 2021 to grow some plants and sell off firewood from jobs as well as green waste. The new owner can easily boost off this start, as the hard yards are already taken.
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