1. When a deal can go wrong: A very willing buyer, a motivated seller but can their lawyers speak to each other?
(Business Sales Blog/Business Sales Blogger)

... cases doesn’t this apply to lawyers? The best lawyers I have dealt with in my years as a broker are those who are willing to be part of the process not sit in their offices working to their own timelines ...

2. Stock + Plant & Equipment - What effect do they have on the value of my business?
(Business Sales Blog/Business Sales Blogger)

... which is most often used for owner operator sized businesses. This figure is often based on an average of the last three years performance of the business for mature businesses and in some cases on ...

3. Vendor Finance
(Business Sales Blog/Business Sales Blogger)

... listed below. Should the business in the next financial year achieve an agreed growth factor then a further $200,000.00 will be paid by the purchaser to the owner. Should the business in the next +1 ...

4. Import/Distribution $2,200,000 - 3 year average EBPITD $699,753
(Buying a Business/Businesses for Sale)

... most profitable year during the worst recession since the depression of the 1930’s Vendor will contract to the new entity Proven growth opportunities in Australia Limited competition Niche industry ...

5. Business attire?
(Business Sales Blog/Business Sales Blogger)

... and anybody was wearing a tie. Two years ago I wouldn’t leave home for the office without a suit and tie. So is there a minimum standard or are we now in a ‘free for all’ as long as it is tidy dress, ...

6. Are you telling the truth about wanting a business do-up?
(Business Sales Blog/Business Sales Blogger)

... and the premises were bad and most importantly their offer was 30% less than the asking price and probably 60% under what somebody would have paid 2 years ago. So what difference does a scruffy office ...

7. Are you getting good advice?
(Business Sales Blog/Business Sales Blogger)

... continues after 2 years. Now maybe this is a good gig for his accountant. Maybe he looks at 20 businesses a year, gets exited about 5 and engages his accountant to carry out a pre-offer due diligence ...

8. Think like a buyer when selling your business
(Business Sales Blog/Business Sales Blogger)

... been diligent on ensuring the business keeps performing to the level which it has in past years and which would have been forecast in the marketing of the business. You can understand owner’s ...

9. Baby Boomers Re-entering the business owners ranks?
(Business Sales Blog/Business Sales Blogger)

... in the next 2-5 years. But what we have found more and more common with business owners of that generation, who have already exited, is that they are re-entering the business ownership market within ...

10. The Market Situation in New Zealand
(Sell Your Business/The Market)

Second Quarter Thoughts Having passed the shortest day of the year, we are on the slope towards spring. Hopefully the first quarter of the financial year has treated you well. Most people we have ...

11. PLASTIC FABRICATOR- Proprietary Products $600,000
(Buying a Business/Businesses for Sale)

This business has been established 23 plus years with the current owners having it for the last 10. They are a specialist plastics fabricator with a good mix of proprietary products and jobbing work, ...

12. Are you buying the broker or the brokerage?
(Business Sales Blog/Business Sales Blogger)

As the end of our first financial year in business approaches, Paul and I continue to get referrals from people we have dealt with in the past. In the last month or so, with the weather getting warmer, ...

13. Merry Christmas from the team at Switch Business
(Business Sales Blog/Business Sales Blogger)

... click away. We also want to take this opportunity to thank all our visitors for stopping by this last year and hope you will return next year to catch up with what your favourite business brokers ...

14. Johnny Rockets - Exclusive Area Development Agreement (ADA)
(Franchises/Franchises for Sale)

... is a privately-held company based in Lake Forest, California that operates restaurants under the name Johnny Rockets® in the United States and abroad. Each year, Johnny Rockets serves more than 13 million ...

15. Would your business be ready, if Switch did tap you on the shoulder?
(Business Sales Blog/Business Sales Blogger)

... by handshake for years with customers, suppliers, site leases and sometimes even key staff. None of this means anything to a purchaser or his/her financiers, so formalise everything that you can. If they ...

16. Taxi Trucks NZ Ltd
(Buying a Business/Businesses for Sale)

This iconic business has been around for at least 20 years with the owners previous to the current owner incorporating the company in 1989. We estimate that the company has in the past had as many as ...

17. Business Acquisitions follow up
(Business Sales Blog/Business Sales Blogger)

...  We have many times in the last 5 years or so talked to buyers who have been looking for a business to buy and not been able to find one through the normal channels. Some of the guys are still looking ...

18. A perfect add-on or a build and sell?
(Buying a Business/Businesses for Sale)

... a new owner can give it the focus it requires. The company has paid little attention to expanding this division over the past 2 years as all resources have been directed at its principal manufacturing ...

19. Lifetime Distributors- South Island Master Franchise available
(Franchises/Franchises for Sale)

... of individuals, and is now in their 20th year supplying products to businesses, schools, hospitals and many more locations every two weeks. Products are supplied direct into the hands of customers ...

20. Sell your business now or risk baby boomer Tsunami?
(Business Sales Blog/Business Sales Blogger)

... 471,000 businesses in NZ with a turnover exceeding $30k (excluding farming). The ASB survey of March 2009 states that 25% of owners wish to sell in the next 5 years. This poll points toward owners who ...