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Selling or buying a production business

Throughput, yield and contracts — the three things diligence will test.

I want to sell my Production business I want to buy one

If you own one

Thinking about selling your production business?

Contract production, packaging and assembly businesses live or die on customer agreements and throughput economics. Buyers will model your cost per unit, your yield and your capacity headroom before they think about your earnings. Owners who can produce that data cleanly are treated as professional operators; owners who cannot get discounted for uncertainty they may not actually have.

What raises the price

  • Written supply or production agreements with real term remaining
  • Measured yield, scrap and line efficiency, tracked over time
  • Capacity headroom so a buyer can grow without immediate capital spend
  • Food-safety, GMP or other certifications maintained and current
  • A plant manager and supervisors who run the floor day to day

What a buyer will discount

  • Purchase orders described as contracts
  • Cost per unit that nobody can reconcile to the financials
  • A plant running at capacity with no expansion path
  • Regulatory or audit findings not disclosed early

None of this is a reason to wait. Most of these are fixable, and knowing which ones apply to you is exactly what a valuation is for.

What is my production business worth?

Nine questions, an indicative range on screen, and a scorecard showing which value drivers you already have and which are costing you money. No cost, no obligation, and nothing is published.

Get a free valuation

Prefer to talk it through first? Use the form below — it reaches a person, not a queue.

If you want to buy one

Looking to acquire a production business?

The businesses that transfer well have written supply agreements, measured line efficiency and room to grow without immediate capital. Watch for capacity that is already maxed and customers who are one price increase from leaving.

How this works. Registering tells us what you are looking for. It does not give you company names, financials or locations — none of that is released until the owner agrees to share it with a specific, qualified buyer under a signed confidentiality agreement. That protection is the reason good businesses come to us at all, and it will protect you too on the day you sell.

Not sure you are ready to compete? Take the readiness check — two minutes, and it tells you exactly what sellers compare buyers on.

Get told before it is listed

Most good businesses in this sector are placed with a prepared buyer before they are ever publicly advertised. Buyers on file hear first. It costs nothing and commits you to nothing.

Register what you are looking for

Start the conversation

Tell us which one you are

Whether you own a production business or want to buy one, this is the same first step: a short, confidential conversation with a person who has done this before.

  • Read personally — never a shared inbox or an auto-responder
  • Confidential. We do not contact your employees, customers or competitors
  • No cost and no obligation to do anything with the answer
  • You can leave anything blank and fill it in later

Handled with care and discretion

Everything you send is treated as confidential. It is read by the person you addressed it to, used only to respond to you, and never sold, shared with foreign entities or used for unsolicited marketing. We do not contact your employees, customers, suppliers or competitors.

Want it in writing first? Say so and we will send a non-disclosure agreement for signature before anything specific is discussed. Plenty of owners prefer that, and nobody is offended by being asked.

Submitting this form does not create a legally binding agreement, an engagement, or a confidentiality obligation on its own — it starts a conversation. Anything binding is a document both sides sign.

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A word or a number is fine. This blocks automated submissions.

A web form submission is not a legally binding agreement and does not create an engagement. If you would like a signed NDA before anything specific is discussed, just say so.

Questions owners actually ask

Production, Packaging & Assembly: the questions we get

How do I sell my contract production business?

With the operating data prepared — yield, throughput, cost per unit and contract terms — because that is what a buyer underwrites. We build that alongside a confidential valuation and approach qualified buyers privately.

What do buyers look for in a packaging or assembly business?

Contract quality, measured efficiency, capacity headroom, certifications, and a management layer between them and the shop floor.

Can I sell without disrupting my customers?

Yes. Customers are not notified during marketing. The business is presented as a blind profile and buyers are qualified under a confidentiality agreement before any identifying detail is released.

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Capability, certifications and repeat programmes — not the resale value of the machines.

Engineering & Technical Services

The value walks out at five o'clock. Retaining it is the whole exercise.

Start with a number, not a decision

A complimentary, confidential valuation tells you what your production business would be worth today and what is holding it back. Whether you act on it is entirely up to you.

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