🚚 Automotive & Distribution: 3 Businesses For Sale 🚚

Our run through a New Jersey M&A advisory firm's book moves to the businesses that keep other businesses moving. This issue leads with a semi-absentee, multi-brand trailer dealership doing $4.1M of revenue with protected territories, a 37-year-old transmission and drivetrain shop at about 1.6x SDE, and a maintenance and janitorial supplies distributor with 286 active accounts and municipal standing orders. 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: Semi-Absentee Trailer Dealership (New Jersey) - $4.1M revenue, 10+ brands, protected territories

    • 🔧 Featured: Transmission & Drivetrain Repair Shop (Morris County, NJ) - $259K SDE at a $425K ask

    • 🧼 Also inside: Janitorial Supplies Distributor (Morris County, NJ) - 286 active accounts at 0.37x revenue

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🚀 Advisor Network Spotlight

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

TRAILER - Semi-Absentee Multi-Brand Trailer Dealership | New Jersey

📍 Location: New Jersey (serving the Tri-State area)
🏷️ Asking Price: $1,100,000 (plus about $100,000 of inventory)
🆔 Deal Code: TRAILER
💰 Cash Flow: $241,684 (EBITDA, advisor-reported)
📈 Gross Revenue: $4,118,848 (advisor-reported)
📊 Business Type: Open & Enclosed Trailer Sales, Service & Parts
🏠 Ownership: Semi-Absentee, Established 1994
🔥 Semi-Absentee! | $4.1M Top Line! | Protected Territories!

✅ Key Highlights:
• $1,100,000 against $241,684 of EBITDA is about 4.6x, and 0.27x revenue. About $100,000 of inventory is not in the price.

• Semi-absentee: a team of 5 full-time and 1 part-time employees handles day-to-day operations, and the sellers are involved so little that a 2-week transition is all that is included.

• A multi-brand dealer across 10-plus manufacturers with protected territories, floor plan financing and third-party customer financing, so no single supplier carries the business.

• About 80% of revenue is trailer sales and 20% parts and service, from repeat landscapers, general contractors and trades, with about 15% from government accounts.

• The honest caveat: a 5.9% EBITDA margin is normal for a dealer but leaves little cushion, and the buyer needs to qualify for the floor plan line. Rent is $10,000 a month for the building and about 4 acres.

🚀 Growth Opportunities:
• The advisor's growth plan: expand government and fleet sales, add sheds, golf carts and swing sets, and rent outside storage on the acreage.

• Parts and service carry better margins than unit sales, so growing that 20% is the margin lever.

📌 Summary:
A 32-year-old trailer dealership with $4.1M of revenue, protected territories and a team that runs it, at about 4.6x EBITDA. Reply and we will get you the floor plan terms and the brand mix.


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

TRANSMISSION - Transmission & Drivetrain Repair Shop | Morris County, NJ

📍 Location: Morris County, NJ
🏷️ Asking Price: $425,000
🆔 Deal Code: TRANSMISSION
💰 Cash Flow: $258,950 (SDE, advisor-reported)
📈 Gross Revenue: $511,222 (advisor-reported)
📊 Business Type: Transmission, Drivetrain & General Auto Repair
🏠 Ownership: Retirement Sale, Established 1989
🔥 About 1.6x SDE! | 51% SDE Margin! | 37 Years In Business!

✅ Key Highlights:
• $425,000 against $258,950 of SDE is about 1.6x, on a 50.7% margin.

• A specialist shop: automatic and manual transmission rebuilds and replacements, diagnostics, differentials, transfer cases and clutches. That niche is what sets it apart in a crowded auto repair market.

• 3 full-time employees, with mechanics bringing more than 25 years of combined experience, strong online reviews, and $50,000 of equipment included in the price.

• Rent of $4,800 a month and a retirement-driven sale.

• The honest caveat: ask who does the rebuilds today and how much of the 51% margin depends on the owner's own hours. Longer term, electric vehicles do not need conventional transmission work, so general repair is the hedge.

🚀 Growth Opportunities:
• Fleet accounts and dealer overflow work keep the bays full in slow weeks.

• Expanding general maintenance and repair turns one-time transmission customers into repeat visits.

📌 Summary:
A long-running transmission specialist at about 1.6x SDE. Best fit is a mechanic-owner or a multi-shop operator; reply for the details.


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

JANITORIAL - Maintenance & Janitorial Supplies Distributor | Morris County, NJ

📍 Location: Morris County, NJ (relocatable)
🏷️ Asking Price: $600,000
🆔 Deal Code: JANITORIAL
💰 Cash Flow: Disclosed under NDA
📈 Gross Revenue: $1,604,477 (advisor-reported)
📊 Business Type: Maintenance & Janitorial Supplies Distribution
🏠 Ownership: Established 1965, Current Owner Since 1988
🔥 286 Active Accounts! | No Customer Above About 8%! | Municipal Standing Orders!

✅ Key Highlights:
• $600,000 against $1,604,477 of revenue is 0.37x. Cash flow is held for the NDA, so that is the first number to get.

• 286 active accounts in 2025 with no single customer above about 8% of sales, and no bad debt, with about 94% of receivables collected in 60 to 70 days.

• 20 to 25 municipal accounts order through standing and blanket purchase orders, with no competitive bidding, per the advisor.

• The current owner grew sales from $300,000 to $1.6 million, with delivery in 1 to 3 days and often next day. The customer list, name, website, equipment and 3 trucks and vans (about $58,000 combined) are included.

• The honest caveat: the advisor wants buyers with industry experience and prefers a strategic buyer that already has a facility. The seller owns the building and is open to a lease if you need one.

🚀 Growth Opportunities:
• Cross-selling across product lines and buying paper direct, both named by the advisor.

• Adding a dedicated salesperson; the current owner built this on a hands-on, mom-and-pop service model.

📌 Summary:
A distribution book dating back to 1965, with diversified commercial and municipal accounts, at 0.37x revenue. Ideal as a tuck-in for a distributor already in the space; reply and we will get you the cash flow and account list.


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

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