The businesses we sell
Every industry is valued on different things. A pest control route and a machine shop with identical earnings are worth very different amounts, for reasons that have nothing to do with the profit and loss. Find your business type below for a straight answer about what drives the price — and what quietly reduces it.
Not listed? Tell us what you do — the list is where most of our work is, not where all of it is.
Trades & contracting
HVAC & Mechanical Contracting
Service agreements are the asset. Everything else is equipment and trucks.
Plumbing Contractors
Essential, licensed, and short of qualified people — which is why buyers compete.
Electrical Contracting
Backlog, bonding capacity and licensed journeymen — in that order.
Construction & Site Work
Equipment has a value. A repeatable way of winning profitable work has a multiple.
Landscaping & Grounds Maintenance
Contracted maintenance routes are worth multiples of the same revenue in installs.
Manufacturing & industrial
Manufacturing
Buyers underwrite customer concentration and management depth before anything else.
Metal Fabrication & Machining
Capability, certifications and repeat programmes — not the resale value of the machines.
Production, Packaging & Assembly
Throughput, yield and contracts — the three things diligence will test.
Engineering & Technical Services
The value walks out at five o'clock. Retaining it is the whole exercise.
Transport, logistics & supply chain
Trucking & Freight
Dedicated lanes and retained drivers. The tractors are the easy part.
Logistics & Warehousing
Asset-light margins with sticky customers — if the customers are actually sticky.
Supply Chain & Distribution
Exclusive lines, inventory turns and a sales team that owns nothing personally.
Retail, restaurant & consumer
Service & recurring-revenue businesses
Service Businesses
If the revenue repeats without being re-sold, buyers will pay for it.
Pest Control
One of the most reliably valuable recurring-revenue businesses a private buyer can own.
Commercial Cleaning & Janitorial
Contracted accounts with term. Everything else is a staffing company.
Healthcare & Medical Practices
Payer mix, provider retention and a compliance record that survives scrutiny.
Technology, Software & IT Services
Contracted recurring revenue is the whole conversation.
Wherever you are
Wisconsin-based. Buyers found nationally.
Most of our sellers are in Wisconsin and the upper Midwest. Almost none of their buyers are — which is the entire point of running a confidential search rather than putting a sign in the window.