1. 2011 End
(Business Sales Blog/Business Sales Blogger)

... issue this year has been finding quality businesses to market. There has been no shortage of enquiry from owners wanting to sell distressed companies but in most cases they were looking for a sale price ...

2. On-Line Video Agency
(Buying a Business/Businesses for Sale)

Sale Price: $250,000.00 EBPITD: $110,000.00 This modern Auckland based agency specialises in strategy, production and delivery of all on-line video communications. The business was established ...

3. Automotive Services Business
(Franchises/Franchises for Sale)

Sale Price: $195,000 (One Hundred and Ninety Five Thousand dollars) EBPITD: $152,954 (2 year average) The business installs car audio, car security, GPS, reverse sensors, roof racks and hands ...

4. Rugby World Cup and Elections effect on Business Sales
(Business Sales Blog/Business Sales Blogger)

... all revisions were supposedly due to honest mistakes but all indicated an owner and broker trying to justify a price. One of the revisions was required because the rent for the current year was keyed ...

5. U-Sell (Park & Sell Yard)
(Franchises/Franchises for Sale)

... $250,000* Dunedin, $250,000* *These prices are subject to change, and are all plus GST. Visit the U-Sell website. Franchising is a great way to join a successful organisation while still enjoying ...

6. DOA: Is your business worth more dead than alive?
(Business Sales Blog/Business Sales Blogger)

... a local buyer, or a party who would want to relocate to their community. Then the business would have to improve by about 150 per cent to achieve that result. The average house price in their community ...

7. A lot more choice now in Business Broker community
(Business Sales Blog/Business Sales Blogger)

... I want for the business to come up with an asking price? Would I pay the asking price for this business? If no, what do I feel is the most likely result if I believe it is overpriced? ...

8. Live in the Country, Work in the Country!
(Buying a Business/Businesses for Sale)

Sale Price: $560,000 (Five Hundred and Sixty Thousand dollars) EBPITD: $280,985 (3 year average) After 30 years the owner is ready for a change. This business performs possum control services for Regional ...

9. Let’s save the businesses the banks would destroy
(Business Sales Blog/Business Sales Blogger)

... were often lending 100% of the purchase price of a business and, via debtor finance packages, any working capital needed as well. Because money was very easy to get, and cheap, there was real ...

10. Import Distribution Business (Sold)
(Buying a Business/Businesses for Sale)

Sale Price: $425,000 (Four Hundred and twenty five thousand dollars) EBPITD: $213,905 (4 year average) This very simple business was established in 2001. The business imports products ...

11. Infrastructure Service Business (Sold)
(Buying a Business/Businesses for Sale)

... look more at the company’s market position. Sale Price: $3,500,000.00 (Three Million five hundred thousand dollars) EBIT: $900,000.00 (2 year average) This quality business has been ...

12. Does GST increase affect Business Sales?
(Business Sales Blog/Business Sales Blogger)

... shops etc have either not done anything or taken the opportunity to hike prices by over 10%. I think Kiwis by and large are a lot more discerning buyers now and the profiteers will notice very quickly ...

13. Common Sales Tactic Backfires
(Business Sales Blog/Business Sales Blogger)

An interesting article in The NZ Herald by Susie Nordqvist on September 20th regarding the common house sales tactic of setting a higher price and negotiating down is back firing because the buying ...

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

... for business ‘A’ to operate is $600k but there is only $500k on hand then the owner will have to either increase stock levels to the required level or have the sale price reduced accordingly. The ...

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

... asking price for their business when there is a shortfall in a purchaser’s equity plus Bank Finance matching that price. Vendor finance can take many guises from a straight ‘no strings’ loan through ...

16. Urgency
(Business Sales Blog/Business Sales Blogger)

... past the fact that all business involves risk. In a recession the risk is more identifiable and businesses are generally priced accordingly. Are buyer’s advisors now so paranoid about ...

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

... fine and dandy while they are sitting in our office explaining their strategy to us. These are businesses that have to be sold and as such prices are significantly lower than they would have been ...

18. Have you looked at your company’s working capital requirements?
(Business Sales Blog/Business Sales Blogger)

... business owners feel that it is just a cost of doing business and conversely most purchasers, and the financiers, think that WC needs to be added to the ‘list price’ to get the true asking price. To ...

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

... would your business be in a saleable condition? A valid question because when you ask any business owner whether their business is for sale, the great majority would say ‘yes, if the price is right’. ...

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

... also adds to the appeal. Sale Price:   $295,000 EPBITD: 2008 $109,270   2009 $73,873   2010 $124,556* *Forecast on 9 month result. Sales are up on last year and the ...