🏭 Trades & Industrial, Round 3: 3 Businesses For Sale 🏭

Week two of our run through a New Jersey M&A advisory firm's book opens on the shop floor. This issue leads with a third-generation precision wire-forming and metal-stamping manufacturer serving medical and electronics customers at a 43% SDE margin, a 32-year-old custom metal fabrication and welding shop priced under 2x SDE, and a hobby and crafts design, manufacturing and wholesale business selling to national chains at 0.37x revenue. Reply to this email with the deal code and we will send you the details.

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  • In this week's issue:

    • ⚙️ Featured: Precision Wire-Forming & Metal-Stamping Manufacturer (New Jersey) - $415K SDE, 43% margin, about 3.0x

    • 🔥 Featured: Custom Metal Fabrication & Welding (Morris County, NJ) - $350K SDE at a $650K ask

    • 🧶 Also inside: Hobby & Crafts Manufacturer and Wholesaler (Camden County, NJ) - national chain accounts at 0.37x revenue

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Vetted businesses in market now, each represented by an outside M&A advisor.

WIRE - Precision Wire-Forming & Metal-Stamping Manufacturer | New Jersey

📍 Location: New Jersey
🏷️ Asking Price: $1,250,000
🆔 Deal Code: WIRE
💰 Cash Flow: $415,000 (SDE, advisor-reported)
📈 Gross Revenue: $965,000 (advisor-reported)
📊 Business Type: Precision Wire Forming, Micro-Fasteners & Metal Stamping
🏠 Ownership: Third Generation, Established 1974
🔥 43% SDE Margin! | Medical & Electronics Customers! | About 3.0x SDE!

✅ Key Highlights:
• $1,250,000 against $415,000 of SDE is about 3.0x, on a 43.0% margin.

• Custom wire forms in stainless, nickel alloys and titanium, plus cold-headed micro-fasteners and miniature four-slide stampings, for medical, electronics, fire safety and industrial customers.

• In regulated end markets like medical, a qualified supplier is typically hard to replace, because switching usually means requalifying the part.

• Prototype runs to millions of pieces, with forming, stamping, plating and finishing handled with minimal outsourcing, an engineering staff with decades of tooling experience and ASQ-certified quality personnel. The advisor reports more than ten billion components delivered at under 1 part per million returned.

• The honest caveat: the listing does not disclose headcount or customer concentration, and the owner is retiring. Ask for the top-customer split and confirm which engineers and toolmakers stay.

🚀 Growth Opportunities:
• A natural add-on for a precision components manufacturer looking to add capabilities, which is the buyer the advisor is targeting.

• Outbound sales to medical device and electronics manufacturers puts a 52-year quality record in front of new accounts.

📌 Summary:
A 52-year-old precision manufacturer with a 43% margin and regulated-market customers at about 3.0x SDE. Reply and we will get you the customer mix and the equipment list.


🔒 Confidentiality: Financials available upon NDA.
👉 Reply to this email with "WIRE" for more info.

WELD - Custom Metal Fabrication & Welding Shop | Morris County, NJ

📍 Location: Morris County, NJ
🏷️ Asking Price: $650,000
🆔 Deal Code: WELD
💰 Cash Flow: $350,000 (SDE, advisor-reported)
📈 Gross Revenue: $590,000 (advisor-reported)
📊 Business Type: Custom Metal Fabrication, Railings & Welding
🏠 Ownership: Retirement Sale, Established 1994
🔥 Under 2x SDE! | 59% SDE Margin! | $150K Of Equipment Included!

✅ Key Highlights:
• $650,000 against $350,000 of SDE is about 1.9x, on a 59.3% margin.

• MIG and TIG welding, custom railings, facades, structural metalwork and repair for homeowners and light commercial clients. The custom railing niche is what sets it apart from generic welding shops.

• 32 years in business, with $150,000 of fixtures and equipment and $5,000 of inventory included in the price.

• The honest caveat: a 59% margin on $590,000 of revenue usually means the owner does a lot of the skilled work. Ask how many welders are on staff, what the owner does each day, and where fabrication happens, since the listed space is 1,200 square feet.

🚀 Growth Opportunities:
• Railing and facade work for builders and property managers is steadier than one-off residential jobs.

• A second fabricator lets the shop take on larger commercial jobs it may be passing on today.

📌 Summary:
A small, high-margin fab shop at under 2x SDE. The deal turns on how much of the skill walks out with the owner; reply and we will get you the staffing and customer list.


🔒 Confidentiality: Financials available upon NDA.
👉 Reply to this email with "WELD" for more info.

CRAFTS - Hobby & Crafts Design, Manufacturing & Wholesale Distributor | Camden County, NJ

📍 Location: Camden County, NJ (Philadelphia metro)
🏷️ Asking Price: $225,000
🆔 Deal Code: CRAFTS
💰 Cash Flow: $65,129 (SDE, advisor-reported)
📈 Gross Revenue: $615,103 (advisor-reported)
📊 Business Type: Hobby & Crafts Design, Manufacturing & Wholesale
🏠 Ownership: Retirement Sale, Established 1998
🔥 0.37x Revenue! | National Chain Accounts! | Exclusive Supplier Relationships!

✅ Key Highlights:
• $225,000 against $65,129 of SDE is about 3.5x, on a 10.6% margin. Against revenue it is 0.37x.

• 28 years supplying the hobby and crafts industry, with national and international accounts that include national chains and independent retailers, many of them decades long.

• Exclusive supplier relationships and a just-in-time inventory system that keeps working capital lean.

• 5 full-time employees in a 5,000 square foot facility at $4,900 a month, on a lease that runs to March 2028.

• The honest caveat: a 10.6% margin leaves little room, so check how much revenue sits with the national chains and what the exclusive supplier agreements say about a change of ownership.

🚀 Growth Opportunities:
• Targeted marketing, online visibility and direct outreach to wholesale and retail crafts accounts, all named by the advisor as untapped.

• New product lines and added design and manufacturing capacity on the existing customer base.

📌 Summary:
A long-running crafts wholesaler with national accounts at 0.37x revenue. Best fit is a distributor or an operator who can push sales; reply for the details.


🔒 Confidentiality: Financials available upon NDA.
👉 Reply to this email with "CRAFTS" for more info.

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