Outdoor and team-building company with a strong customer base and unique activities in the Ardennes
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This adventure-based outdoor company organizes nature experiences and team-building activities in a unique Ardennes setting.
The company is a stable, profitable, and operationally well-structured entity within the outdoor and recreation sector. It organizes active, adventurous group experiences and operates from two unique locations.
Its core activities and offerings can be divided into three strategic pillars:
- Schools & Youth Organizations (Existing Operational Base): This forms the company’s historical foundation. The company has a loyal, active, and returning client base of schools and nonprofit organizations. The activities are fully tailored to hosting groups for sports days, forest classes, and adventure camps during school breaks.
- Private Group Packages (B2C): In addition to educational and youth programs, the locations and facilities are used for various private group activities (such as outdoor survival and recreational group packages).
- Corporate Incentives & B2B (Immediate Operational Growth Potential): At one of the locations, the entire infrastructure has recently been prepared to host corporate incentive events. This offering is ready for immediate use (“plug-and-play”), allowing a buyer to tap into this lucrative market from day one. A concrete plan is in place to scale up to dozens of corporate events per year in the short term.
Key advantages for a buyer:
- Unique market protection (local monopoly): The company holds an exclusive operating and environmental permit within a protected Natura 2000 area. Due to stringent legislation, obtaining new permits in this region is virtually impossible. This creates an extremely high barrier to entry for competitors and guarantees future cash flow.
- Solid Asset Base & Structure: The acquisition is backed by a strong, tangible asset base with a current replacement value of €570,000. This includes the operational sites, facilities, high-quality equipment, rolling stock, and fully detailed operational manuals and safety protocols.
- Financially Sound & Predictable: The company has a stable, historically proven annual revenue that structurally fluctuates around €250,000. Normalized EBITDA amounts to over €103,000 (based on the model of a hands-on manager), ensuring an immediate and predictable cash flow.
- Enormous Scalability: The current infrastructure at the main location has the capacity to accommodate 3 to 4 times as many groups as it currently does. With targeted marketing, substantial revenue growth can be achieved here immediately.
Transaction Structure:
The current owner has unwavering faith in the untapped growth potential and is open to flexible scenarios. In addition to a 100% share transfer, an arrangement is also negotiable whereby the founder remains involved as a minority investor to support the buyer with expertise.
Confidentiality Notice:
Due to the exclusive market position and the confidential nature of this transaction, the specific locations, the trade name, and the full information memorandum will be disclosed only after the signing of a non-disclosure agreement (NDA).
Market Dynamics
The market for outdoor experiences and adventurous group activities is growing rapidly:
- rising demand from schools (experiential learning)
- increasing demand for corporate team-building events
- growth in nature tourism and group experiences
High rate of repeat customers, particularly schools and regular groups
Operational scalability & growth potential
The existing infrastructure is currently significantly underutilized and offers enormous operational leverage for a new owner:
- Current occupancy: On average, 1 to 6 groups are hosted per day, spread over approximately 130 active days per year.
- Immediate potential: Operational capacity can easily be scaled up to 6 to 10 groups per day, and occupancy can be expanded to approximately 260 active days per year through targeted marketing (including better seasonal distribution and year-round activities).
Your advantage as a buyer:
Since the fixed infrastructure, processes, and operating procedures are already fully operational and in place, this increase in capacity translates into immediate revenue growth with very limited additional costs.
Investment Level
Due to the intensive investments made in recent years, the operations require only a marginal annual investment level, allowing the company to operate with relatively low CAPEX.
New developments
Starting in 2027, a new concept for competitive business activities is planned under the name “corporate trophies.” This concept has already been developed and is ready for implementation, and it specifically targets the business segment where higher margins and strong growth prospects exist.
The long-standing partnership with a major professional venue offering lodging, catering, and meeting facilities creates additional opportunities for further growth in the corporate segment.
This partnership makes it possible to:
• organize multi-day corporate programs and initiatives
• achieve a higher average spend per customer
• provide an attractive platform for the further development of corporate activities.
Unique features
- • A rare outdoor location in a unique natural setting: Activities take place in an exceptional natural landscape in the Ardennes. Locations where outdoor activities can take place directly in nature are rare and difficult to replicate.
- • High customer retention: A strong and loyal customer base with a large proportion of returning school groups and regular customers from Flanders, which ensures stable and predictable revenue.
- • Proven and profitable business model: EBITDA margin of approximately 41% with limited annual capital expenditure requirements. This results in a stable and attractive free cash flow.
- • Easily transferable business: Day-to-day operations are managed by a permanent employee. Administration and invoicing are largely automated via Peppol, making the business easy to transfer from an operational standpoint.
- • Immediately scalable capacity: The existing infrastructure and organizational structure make it relatively easy to increase the number of groups per day, enabling immediate revenue growth without significant additional investment.
- • Additional profit potential for an active buyer: The profit margins are calculated on the assumption that neither the business owner nor any employees lead groups themselves. A buyer who does lead groups can immediately further increase profitability.
- Location
- Wallonië
- Legal form
- Company
- Number of employees
- 1
- Customer type
- B2B (Business to Business), B2C (Business to Consumer), Governments
- Active since
- 1994
- Real estate included
- No
- Translated from
- Dutch
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