🏆 Best of the Pipeline: September Wrap - 10 Businesses For Sale 🏆
Before October's fresh intake takes over the board, here is September's leaderboard. These are the ten deals that drew the most replies, the most NDAs, and the most second looks across the entire month, ranked by your collective interest. If you have been watching one of these from the sidelines, consider this the last call before new listings push them down the board. Reply to this email with the deal number(s) and we will send you the details.
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In this week's issue:
🖨️ Featured: Commercial Printing Company (CA + NV) - $20M revenue, $2.75M reported SDE, the month's biggest platform deal
⚡ Featured: Stainless Steel Welding & Fabrication (Rutherfordton, NC) - $450K cash flow, negotiable price
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#86 - Commercial Printing Company | Cypress, CA & Las Vegas, NV
📍 Location: Cypress, CA and Las Vegas, NV
🏷️ Asking Price: $17,500,000
🆔 Business ID: Confidential
💰 Cash Flow: $2,750,000 (owner-reported SDE)
📈 Gross Revenue: $20,000,000
📊 Business Type: Commercial Printing, Two Facilities
🏠 Ownership: Owner Operated
🔥 $20M Top Line! | Two-State Footprint! | September's Biggest Platform Deal!
✅ Key Highlights:
• $20,000,000 in revenue with $2,750,000 in owner-reported SDE across facilities in Southern California and Las Vegas, the largest deal on the board all month.
• Print consolidates in the survivors' favor: as competitors retire, the remaining platforms absorb their books of business.
• The two-state footprint provides the geographic redundancy large contract customers demand.
• Roughly 6.4x reported SDE, a platform multiple for a platform-size business. Retirement-driven and open to structure.
🚀 Growth Opportunities:
• Tuck-in acquisitions of retiring competitors are the proven playbook at this scale.
• Mailing, fulfillment, and packaging expand wallet share inside existing accounts.
📌 Summary:
A genuine platform for a funded buyer or search fund, and the most-requested large deal of September. This is Exchange-tier work, and we run those processes end to end.
🔒 Confidentiality: Financials available upon NDA.
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#45 - Stainless Steel Welding & Fabrication Shop | Rutherfordton, NC
📍 Location: Rutherfordton, NC
🏷️ Asking Price: Negotiable
🆔 Business ID: Confidential
💰 Cash Flow: $450,000
📈 Gross Revenue: $1,200,000
📊 Business Type: Stainless Steel Welding & Fabrication
🏠 Ownership: Owner Operated
🔥 37% Margin! | Negotiable Price! | Seller Financing Open!
✅ Key Highlights:
• $450,000 in cash flow on $1,200,000 in revenue: a 37% margin that reflects specialty stainless work, not commodity fab.
• Stainless welding serves food processing, pharmaceutical, and brewery clients, industries with strict spec requirements and few qualified shops.
• The price is negotiable and seller financing is on the table, so the structure conversation starts open.
• Western North Carolina manufacturing keeps growing as the Carolinas absorb reshored production.
🚀 Growth Opportunities:
• A second shift is the classic capacity unlock in fab shops with demand backlogs.
• Sanitary process piping certifications open recurring plant-maintenance contracts.
📌 Summary:
One of the most requested trades deals all month: high-margin specialty work with a flexible seller. Bring your number; the owner is listening.
🔒 Confidentiality: Financials available upon NDA.
🕵🏼♀️ Direct-From-Owner Pipeline: September's Leaderboard
The eight remaining most-requested deals of the month, ranked by reader interest. Figures are owner-reported unless marked verified. Reply with the deal number(s) to request an introduction.
🥇 Top of the Board
#59 - Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Academy | Sunnyvale & Milpitas, CA
📍 Silicon Valley, California
🏷️ Asking: Open to offers | 💰 Adjusted EBITDA: $234,852 (2025, verified) | 📈 Revenue: $656,732 (rolling 12 months, +26.6% YTD)
📝 595 members, semi-absentee hours, complete data room. The most NDA'd deal in the recreation category.
🔒 Confidentiality: Financials available upon NDA.
#54 - Beachfront Vacation Rental Portfolio | Hampton Beach, NH
📍 Hampton Beach, New Hampshire
🏷️ Asking: Open to offers | 💰 Cash Flow: $1,000,000 (owner-reported profit) | 📈 Revenue: $2,000,000
📝 A reader favorite: oceanfront property with hospitality cash flow on top, and an owner open to a sale or a capital partner.
🔒 Confidentiality: Financials available upon NDA.
#48 - Commercial & Residential HVAC/R Company | Paramus, NJ
📍 Paramus, New Jersey
🏷️ Asking: $3,000,000 | 💰 Cash Flow: $500,000 | 📈 Revenue: $3,500,000
📝 Established North Jersey HVAC/R contractor at 6x cash flow, and one of the most-requested trades deals this fall.
🔒 Confidentiality: Financials available upon NDA.
🥈 Most-Requested Large Deals
#67 - Corporate Relocation Services Company | Dartmouth, MA and Dallas, TX
📍 Northeast + Texas
🏷️ Asking: $3,000,000 | 💰 Cash Flow: $2,000,000+ (owner-reported) | 📈 Revenue: $5,000,000
📝 Roughly 1.5x reported profit from an 84-year-old owner choosing a successor.
🔒 Confidentiality: Financials available upon NDA.
#94 - Short-Term Rental Portfolio | St. George, UT
📍 St. George, Utah
🏷️ Asking: $3,500,000 | 💰 SDE: $1,200,000 (owner-reported) | 📈 Revenue: $2,600,000
📝 Zion-gateway hospitality under 3x reported SDE. September's fastest riser.
🔒 Confidentiality: Financials available upon NDA.
#15 - E-Waste Recycling & Data Destruction | Hillsboro, OR
📍 Hillsboro, Oregon
🏷️ Asking: $4,500,000 | 💰 Cash Flow: $1,560,000 | 📈 Revenue: $2,850,000
📝 55% margin at 2.9x with real estate and seller financing on the table. A perennial leaderboard deal.
🔒 Confidentiality: Financials available upon NDA.
🥉 Most-Requested Main Street
#21 - Cash-Pay Functional Medicine Clinic | Hurst, TX
📍 Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas
🏷️ Asking: $2,400,000 | 💰 Cash Flow: $500,000 | 📈 Revenue: $850,000
📝 Cash-pay model, so revenue does not depend on insurance reimbursement. Reports a 59% margin; verifying it is step one.
🔒 Confidentiality: Financials available upon NDA.
#66 - IT Security & Compliance Firm | Champaign, IL
📍 Champaign, Illinois
🏷️ Asking: $1,800,000 | 💰 SDE: $250,000 | 📈 Revenue: $800,000
📝 Recurring B2B security work with financing confirmed. The most-requested services deal of September.
🔒 Confidentiality: Financials available upon NDA.
🤌🏼 Learnings Of The Week
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