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Top Five Mistakes Business Owners Make When Selling Their Company

Selling a business is often a confusing and difficult process, and most business owners only do it once in a lifetime. Very few go through the process enough to really become comfortable with the ins and outs of selling a company successfully. Writing directly to business owners, here is my list of the top five major mistakes that you absolutely must avoid when it’s time to take an exit.

April 2018 Newsletter

Headlines Summit Advisory Brokers Another Major Deal New Website Launched for Summit Advisory How Tax Reform Will Boost Middle Market M&A How Tax Reform Will Boost Middle Market M&A The reduction in corporate tax rate from 35 to 21 percent will give strategic buyers more cash to spend on acquisitions. This legislation contains several provisions

Summit Advisory Inc Facilitates Acquisition of Pet Poultry Products by Simmons Feed Ingredients

Summit Advisory Inc, a Lancaster based M&A firm, was the exclusive representative for the seller in a large pet food transaction.  The attached was released today from Simmons Feed Ingredients about their acquisition of Pet Poultry Products.  Summit led the transaction after researching and reaching out to hundreds of targeted potential buyers.   Summit received Non-Disclosure

Tough sell: It takes work, but even declining businesses can find buyers

By Jessica Aiello, Contributing Writer Retailers are closing hundreds of stores across the country — and in Central Pennsylvania — as more purchases are made online rather than in brick-and-mortar stores. But it is not just national retailers that may be hurting and needing to sell all or pieces of their business. “Buyers buy for the

December 2017 Newsletter

HEADLINES
Deal-makers Forecast Uptick in Lower-Middle Market M & A in 2018
Workplace Financial Wellness Program
Recommendations for Charitable Contributions Made by Business

September 2017 Newsletter

HEADLINES
Small Business Owners Are Retiring and Millennials May Not Fill The Gap on America’s Main Street
Manufacturing Firms Top List of Lower Middle-Market Businesses Bought in Q2 2017
How to Regain Control of the Family Business When Siblings Fight

August 2016 Newsletter

Headlines Top Retirement Strategies: Small Business Owners First Half of 2016 Small Business Transactions Up Slightly Over 2015 Jobless Claims Fall 4,000 to One-Month Low of 262,000 Top Retirement Strategies: Small Business Owners As a small business owner, you are completely responsible for your own retirement planning. Unless your small business is just a side