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Outdoor Lighting Design and Installation Business

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Naperville, IL

Outdoor Lighting Design And Installation Business

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Revenue

$250,000

Earnings (SDE)

$220,000

Margin

88.0%

Year Established

1995

Listed

30+ Days

Customers

Primary focus on high-margin residential installations across Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin. Specializes in outdoor landscape lighting design, installation, and manufacturing. Approximately 95% of the customer base is residential, with some commercial work including subdivision entrances. Customers are primarily self-employed, upper-income individuals who value quality over price.

Customer Acquisition

Referrals are the strongest marketing channel; customers also find the business through online search and seeing completed work. The company has recently launched a redesigned website with enhanced SEO implemented at the beginning of the year.

Team

The owner has a marketing assistant and contracts work out to installers.

Owner's Role

President and oversees everything in the business.

Reason for Selling

Owner is looking to retire and move on from the business.

Contracts

Yes, the company does have maintenance contracts for many customers.

Real Estate

No

When Are You Looking to Sell

ASAP

Licenses Required

No

Additional Notes

The company manufactures and holds patents on self-networking lighting fixtures and an Energy Control System (ECS) transformer. The ECS transformer sits on a WiFi network, eliminates the need for photo eyes or timers, and automatically adjusts lighting based on sunrise/sunset timing for the client's location. Fixtures sell for over $350 each, with a manufacturing cost of $36 per unit, yielding $200-$250 profit per fixture. The owner claims to have extremely high profit margins ($220,000 profit) on $250,000 revenue last year.

Business ID: 1454

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