Metro Rod Northampton: Franchise Resale Opportunity

• Asking Price: £335,000

An exceptional opportunity to acquire a well-established Metro Rod territory covering Northampton and surrounding areas a substantial, high-demand region with strong commercial infrastructure and long-term growth potential.

The Opportunity

Metro Rod Northampton operates as a full-service drainage contractor, delivering reactive, planned and specialist services across commercial and residential sectors.

The business has built a solid reputation locally and benefits from:

• An established trading history
• A broad and diverse customer base
• Strong recurring commercial relationships
• Experienced operational infrastructure already in place
• Significant territory size with further expansion capacity

This is not a start-up opportunity it is a proven, trading business with systems, a small team of staff and equipment in place.

Territory Overview

The Northampton territory represents a substantial marketplace, including:

• Large residential population base
• Significant commercial and industrial presence
• Thousands of registered businesses
• Strong logistics and distribution sector

This provides consistent demand across:

• Commercial drainage
• Facilities management
• Industrial sites
• Property management
• Reactive and planned maintenance contracts

There remains clear headroom to grow contracted PPM work, specialist lining projects and commercial sales activity.

Services Delivered

The business provides a comprehensive range of drainage services including:

• Drain clearance
• CCTV surveying (pushrod & crawler)
• Tanker and combination unit works
• Excavations and groundworks
• Pipe lining and remedial works
• Pump services
• Planned preventative maintenance
• Specialist descaling and rehabilitation solutions

This diverse capability allows for higher-value project work as well as reactive call-outs.

Team & Infrastructure

The business operates with Office administration support and skilled engineers which includes groundworks capability.

This provides stability and continuity for a new owner.

The opportunity would suit:

• An ambitious drainage professional seeking ownership
• An existing contractor looking to expand territory
• A hands-on operator focused on commercial growth
• An investor prepared to develop the contract base further and installing a Operations manager / Chief Engineer

Financial Performance

The business has consistently traded close to the £900k turnover level in recent years, demonstrating resilience and demand stability.

Further financial information, customer sector breakdown and performance detail is available within the Prospectus.

Assets & Equipment

The sale includes a strong fleet and specialist equipment package suitable for delivering both reactive and project-based works.

Growth Potential

With focused commercial sales activity and further engineer recruitment, there is realistic potential to grow revenue beyond current levels.

Key opportunities include:

• Increasing contracted PPM agreements
• Expanding specialist lining and remedial works
• Strengthening commercial account acquisition
• Enhancing van utilisation

The size and structure of the territory provides clear scalability for the right buyer.

Asking Price: £335,000

Serious enquiries invited.

To receive the Prospectus and further overview information, please request details.

Full statutory accounts, detailed customer analysis and asset breakdown will be made available following signed NDA: