Category: Sell A Business

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March 4, 2024

How To Select The Right Broker To Sell Your Business

By Ted Kantor

 “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” – Benjamin Franklin As a business owner, there are many major milestones throughout your history of ownership including buying the business, growing and reaping the financial rewards of satisfying your customers, and ultimately making the decision to sell.  However, this final stage requires a new team…

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December 7, 2023

How Do Higher Interest Rates Impact Deal Making

By Achim Neumann

Higher Interest rates generally have a negative impact on Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) deals as most buyers finance a portion of their acquisition of target companies with debt.  In this article, we will outline some of the negative, but also positive outcomes that higher interest rates have on the lower middle M&A market. For one,…

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September 9, 2022

Motivated Investors – How To Find Them

By Karin Neumann

Closing the deal is a significant challenge business owners face once they’ve made the decision to sell their business. Some business owners still hope somebody will walk through their door and make an offer they cannot refuse. While in some instances, inflated purchase prices might exist amongst public companies or with strategic acquisitions, but rarely…

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August 10, 2022

ESOP Challenges

By Achim Neumann

On numerous occasions, retiring business owners have raised the question, if an ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan) as a means of transferring their business would not be better than selling the business to an investor? Not surprisingly, that question is usually asked with the perception that an ESOP is “easy” to be executed, it will…

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May 6, 2022

Seven Reasons to Use An M&A Advisor To Sell A Business

By Joe Oddo

Based on many testimonials, the decision to engage a professional to sell your business will be one of the most important investments you can make. Sellers tell us how emotional the process can become. After all, business ownership has been your life’s work. The entire process from preparation to execution becomes much less stressful with…

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April 8, 2021

Top 10 Owner Concerns When Selling a Business

By Jeremy Albelda

With 2020 in the rearview mirror, 2021 appears to be the year of possibilities.  You are probably looking for options and selling your business might be one of those options, however, there are some things you should consider before doing so.  Over A Neumann & Associates’ 18-year history we’ve seen and heard a lot while…

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September 18, 2020

TOO LATE TO SELL? NO!

By Jeremy Albelda

Even before the Coronavirus crisis hit our families and economy, we were hearing from business owners that were fearful about going through another recession and were thinking about selling their business. As Achim Neumann, President of A Neumann & Associates, LLC. states – “the Great Recession of 2008-2010 put many out of business and challenged…