Cash flow of the Client Company at the time of sale: $650,000 Negative attribute: one large publicly-traded equipment manufacturing customer made up a significant portion of sales. This fact caused consternation with numerous suitors, however it was overcome in the following fashion: Results after 3 months of confidentially, yet aggressively marketing the business: • 63 […]
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Adjusted EBITDA of the Client Company at the time of sale: $1,250,000 Negative attribute: one customer made up 25%+ of sales, which caused some buyers to pass. Results after 3 months of confidentially marketing the business: 102 buyers expressed interest in reviewing the business. 83 returned confidentiality agreements and received detailed information. 12 IOIs were
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Although both 2014 and 2015 were both great years for the small business market, with median sale prices rising over time, we have yet to see the tsunami of small businesses for sale that experts predicted just a few years ago. In fact, some people have begun to wonder if the market has plateaued or
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High fourth-quarter mergers and acquisitions activity in 2015 has many analysts expecting a robust year for M&A in 2016. Globally, the industrial sectors that are showing the most activity are: Technology, media and telecoms Pharmaceuticals, med, and biotech Energy, mining, and utilities Last year, M&A hit a record $3.8 trillion worldwide. Of course, a large
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After the considerable success business owners have had in finding buyers for their businesses in 2015, the question that’s being floated is: Can this last? In analyzing all sales of small businesses in 2015, BizBuySell determined that the number of completed sales had decreased slightly from 2014, going from 7,494 in 2014 to 7,222 in
Has the Market for Businesses Plateaued or Even Peaked? Read More »
It can be difficult to know when the right time to sell your business might be. For a business owner with a company that is in good shape financially, this will always be a matter of guesswork. You have to compare the known (your company’s past and present performance) with the unknown (your company’s future
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Calder Capital, LLC is pleased to announce the successful sale of Baumann Tool & Die of Zeeland, MI, by individual investor Mark Brown. Founded in 1980 by brothers Les & Dave Baumann, Baumann Tool & Die, LLC is a well-established, growing CNC manufacturing company specializing in injection mold building, low-volume production work and general repair and
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It’s no secret that, from a financial perspective, these last ten years have been “interesting times” to live in both in the United States and worldwide. The financial markets have been less predictable than during earlier, more stable times, the economy took a plunge and then recovered somewhat, and the restructured business climate with its
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Do you have questions about what Calder Capital is about or what exactly we do for our clients? Check out Max Friar’s interview with Tami Parks for The Small Business Life about the process buying and selling a small business. Smitten! is “a podcast for those of us smitten with the entrepreneurial spirit” about business, family, and
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We’ve discussed before what the state of the market is for buying and selling businesses. Earlier in the year it was record-breaking fantastic, and buyers and sellers both have confidence that this trend will continue, and specifically that sellers will continue to have opportunities into next year. But what has 2015 as a whole been
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