Manufacturing Business Brokers & M&A Advisors
Alpharetta Manufacturing Business Brokers & M&A Advisors
You built a shop that makes things well. Buyers will price the equipment, the people, and the margins — and our advisors have led from the office and the shop floor.
For Manufacturing Owners
What a Buyer Will Ask About Your Manufacturing Business
Manufacturers in Alpharetta, Cumming, and across North Atlanta are valued on more than EBITDA. A buyer — especially a private equity group or a strategic acquirer — will want to know how old the equipment is, whether maintenance records exist, how much CapEx is coming, whether your skilled people are W-2 and how long they’ve stayed, and what gross margin looks like once the owner’s add-backs are normalized.
Most of those questions have good answers. The problem is that they usually get asked after an offer is on the table, when every unanswered one becomes a reason to re-trade the price. Our job is to answer them first.
Two stories from our own deals: Phil took a machine shop to market whose equipment was decades old — and it sold well, because every machine had a maintenance record in the data room and the crew running it had been there for years. Tony has watched a manufacturing closing get renegotiated over vacation time: fifty employees, two weeks accrued each, and a buyer who expected the seller to cover it. Neither surprise happens when the work is done before the first buyer conversation.
Diligence, Answered Early
What Buyers Look at in a Manufacturing Business
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Equipment age, maintenance schedules and records, and the CapEx a buyer will need to fund
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Skilled-labor tenure and whether the people who make the product will stay
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Gross margin by product line, and any differentiator that sets you apart from standardized competitors
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Accrued liabilities buyers expect the seller to cover — two weeks of vacation on the books for 50 employees adds up
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Customer concentration and work-in-process accounting
The Team on Your Deal
How Our Team Works a Manufacturing Sale
Phil has positioned multi-million-dollar machine shops for sale on exactly these points — documenting each piece of equipment and its maintenance history in the data room and presenting a tenured, skilled workforce as the asset it is. Tony brings the diligence checklist from larger deals: W-2 versus 1099 labor, accrued vacation, reinvestment history. John builds the financial model a manufacturing buyer will underwrite.
One point of contact, three sets of eyes on the shop — and answers ready before a buyer asks.
Next Steps
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