We are excited to announce one of the awards CBI Team has won for 2023! 

CBI has won the Advisor Industry Award presented by Axial. It highlights the TOP 2023 closed deals in eight industries with the highest volume of deal flow on Axial. Guess who was at the top? CBI Team! We could get used to being number #1!   We appreciate the hard work and dedication of our team […]

CBI Broker Dave Godwin Wins IBBA Award

Dave Godwin, CBI Northwest Arkansas Executive Business Broker and Certified Business Intermediary has been awarded the International Business Brokers Association (IBBA) Chairman’s Circle Award. This Award is given to those individuals who closed one or more qualified business deals amounting to $3 million and above in total purchase price in 2021. In 2021, Dave totaled […]

Sold! Bentonville Speede Lube

Bentonville Speede Lube located on Walton Blvd in Bentonville, Arkansas has been acquired by an oil and lubricant industry buyer. This buyer has now worked with CBI Team to purchase two separate car service businesses and is looking to purchase more. Mike Seals brought this big buyer to CBI and has established a growing relationship […]

Arkansas Rural Summit Event

CBI and AEDC work to create economic opportunities for Arkansas.   Kendrick Steele, Managing Partner for CBI Memphis, and Mike Forrest Manufacturing Specialist of Conway attended and represented the CBI Team, which is partnering with the Arkansas Economic Develop Commission to ensure existing businesses and jobs are retained by transferring local businesses to new owners. This […]

Sold! Jeff Self Pools & Spas

Jeff Self Pools & Spas, a Bryant, Arkansas family-owned business recently sold, but it’s still a family business thanks to CBI Central Arkansas Executive Business Broker, Shep Campbell . This business sold to the son of Jeff Self who wants to keep this family business alive and well. Jeff Self Pools & Spas has over […]

Sold! Let’s Imagine Indoor Playground

  The sale of Let’s Imagine Indoor Playground in Bentonville, Arkansas closed recently, according to CBI Northwest Arkansas Managing Partner Jon Holbert. CBI Executive Business Broker, John Green, brought the seller and buyer together. Let’s Imagine Indoor Playground opened in late 2019 with high expectations going into January 2020. With a successful and profitable kick-off […]

Peckin ‘ Away (August)

By: Carl Grimes CBI Founder/Chairman Seems like I spend hours every day on the phone. Sometimes the calls are mundane but every once in a while a ‘brain burp” comes and that happened today while visiting with a business owner in Conway. He was telling me about his business plan, which includes franchising his service.   He said […]

Sold! John C. Udouj, General Dentistry

Dr. John Udouj first considered selling his practice back in 2018 and met with CBI Intermediary Casey Grimes to evaluate the business. Utilizing the experience of selling practices for CBI, Casey was able to help Dr. Udouj look at the practice from the perspective of a potential buyer and Dr. Udouj learned he had some work to do in preparing for the eventual sale. He did the work […]