FOR SALE A well-known carpenter in the region with a long history looking for a new owner

Business information

Sale topic	For sale
Industry	Manufacture of wood and wood products
Location	Southern Finland
Person count	Full-time 4 persons part-time 1 persons
Adjusted revenue	1 000 000 EUR
Asking price	450 000 EUR Asset deal (a share deal is also possible)

A long-serving, growing and successful carpenter i Southern Finland i looking for a new owner to take the business to the next level. The business has several good B2B customers and in addition the business provides services to private consumers on occasion.

The product and service selection is extensive. The business’ selling points are a swift service, high-quality products and service as well as a highly developed know-how and a high security of supply.

The product selection includes different furniture, rails and other wood products for shops and public spaces (e.g. decorative solutions, tailor-made products, restorations and repairs etc). In practice, the business caters to almost all request when it comes to wooden furniture and components etc.

The business has been reformed and developed quickly in the last few years, e.g. by renewing machines and the product and service selection, focusing on quality and environmental aspects in the materials as well as minimizing the amount of wasted material.

The skilled personnel enables a smooth start in the business for a new entrepreneur. Actual knowledge of the wood industry is not necessarily needed. The current owner is also prepared to help a new entrepreneur in the beginning as needed.

Asking price justification

Includes machines/equipment as well as floating assets. The share of machines is around half of the selling price.

More information about the target

Target's brokers in Suomen Yrityskaupat

Tomi Vuorinen, DI, AYV
Auktorisoitu Yritysvälittäjä (AYV), Turku
Puh 010 2864 021
Gsm 050 4773 595
[email protected]

Niko Halonen, DI
Yritysvälittäjä, Mikkeli
Puh 010 2864 022
Gsm 040 15777 18
[email protected]

Product rights to new wood products

asking price 6 000 EUR
Additional price based product sales

The business has designed several new wood products, and the product rights of these are for sale. The inventor is retired and does not want to market the products themself. If necessary the entrepreneur can work as a subcontractor in the production of the products. By acquiring the product rights the buyer gets an inexpensive path to new products, which have been carefully designed and tested over several years. Suitable for a buyer with their own distribution channels and/or production capacity. The marketing potential of the products is currently largely unknown.

Carpentry business with decades of history

asking price 255 000 EUR

The carpentry shop manufactures individual carpentry products for demanding projects. Wood products are manufactured for the special needs of customers and most often according to the plans of an architect or interior designer. The products are always individual, made specifically for the site.

The carpentry business for sale is an operator for which the most unusual projects are always invited to tender and which is able to carry out even large projects.

The majority of turnover is generated by business customers.

The focus of operations is in Southern Finland, but products are also delivered elsewhere. The location in relation to the market is excellent and operations are carried out in rented premises designed and built for that purpose.

The business has grown at almost all times. The growth has been driven by:

– increase in the number of customers

– the focus of the customer base shifting to end users

– the importance of long-term customer relationships, especially key customer relationships, being emphasised

– developing the service to be more comprehensive alongside the product delivery

With the growth of the business:

– the organisation has been strengthened with new experts

– premises have been built to serve the carpentry business

– all official regulations for premises have been fulfilled

– investments in machinery have been made.

The employees are top experts and committed to working in the carpentry business also in the future. The employer values them and they value the employer.

The carpentry shop has succeeded in keeping production efficient and the organisation at the right size, thus achieving and maintaining its cost-competitiveness.

A special carpentry factory in Southern Finland

asking price 1 370 000 EUR
Asset deal

The special carpentry factory specializes in furnishing public spaces.

The business has been developed quickly over the years by renewing machines, focusing on quality and environmental aspects in the materials as well as minimizing the amount of wasted material.

The selling points are a swift service, high-quality products and service as well as a highly developed know-how and a high security of supply.

A manufacturer of high-quality log cabins well-known in Europe and elsewhere

asking price 11 000 000 EUR

The business is a stable manufacturer of log cabins with a higher than average profitability. The business develops, manufactures and markets products with its own brand. It manufacturers log cabins, saunas and bath barrels of 28 mm, 40 mm and 70 mm beams.

In the last few years the business has invested in improving its manufacturing speed and moved to new markets (Canada).

The manufacture processes have been organized to mainly one shift. For some stages 1,5 shifts are utilized during busy periods. The changeability of the personnel is minor.

The business own to properties almost next to each other (over 4 hectares in total area).

The manufacturing is organized in different buildings in the area of around 16 400 m2 in total.

The customers of the business are not DIY hardware stores, but catalogue and online retailers and different types of shops specialized in sales which are prepared to function as retailers. There are no written agreements between the business and its customers.