Business Plan - General Contractor

General Contracting Company

BUSINESS PLAN SMITH CONTRACTORS, INC.
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123 Main Street, Suite H
Spokane, Washington 99204
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Smith Contractors, Inc. specializes in national tenant improvements, retail market facilities, and commercial properties. Their primary goal of meeting customers' construction needs through quality workmanship and successful relationships with owner management teams is evidenced by their expanding base of repeat clients. This plan was provided by Ameriwest Business Consultants, Inc.
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• EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
• OBJECTIVES & GOALS, AND STRATEGIES FOR ACHIEVING THEM
• BUSINESS DESCRIPTION, STATUS, & OUTLOOK
• MANAGEMENT AND OWNERSHIP
• MARKET ANALYSIS
• MARKETING STRATEGIES
• FINANCIAL PLANS
  

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

BUSINESS DESCRIPTION

Smith Contractors, Inc. is a general contracting company founded in February 1990 by a select group of individuals with a high level of construction experience. The firm specializes in national tenant improvements, retail market facilities, and commercial properties. Smith Contractors' primary goal of meeting customers' construction needs through quality work-manship and successful relationships with owner management teams is evidenced by our expanding base of repeat clients. Smith Contractors offers national construction services, preconstruction services, job site and project management, administrative support, and document control. Smith Contractors evaluates projects for constructability, provides cost estimates, helps maintain project scheduling, and works with owners to meet quality and time objectives. Smith Contractors can suggest cost effective means of construction and help select the best subcontractors for each project. Once a project is begun, Smith Contractors maintains full-time superintendents who are responsible for all daily logs, reviewing quality and timeliness of subcontractors, conducting safety meetings and maintaining good communications with the owner. The client list includes many nationally known firms including Ross, Sears, Dockers, Fashion Bar, and Nike. Smith Contractors is licensed or authorized to pull building permits in all 50 states.

CURRENT POSITION AND FUTURE OUTLOOK

The business is in its seventh year of operation. Operations are conducted from facilities located at 123 Main Street in Spokane, Washington. Sales increased nearly fifty percent in 1998 and are expected to do the same in 2000. These healthy increases are expected to continue for another three years and then begin to level off. An area of opportunity in the future will be working on international projects. This will be on a limited basis and will be at the request of existing customers.

MANAGEMENT AND OWNERSHIP

The company is set up as a corporation with....