Sold – Maverick Supply

Sold – Maverick Supply Pictured: Charles Rateliff (CBI Intermediary), Maria Smith (seller), Gene Burch (seller), Delinda Burch (seller), Jack Burch (seller), Jennifer Hicks (buyer), Donald Hicks (buyer), John Green (CBI Intermediary) CBI recently facilitated the sale of Maverick Supply Inc., a long-time and well established Berryville, Arkansas plumbing and electric business.  Donald and Jennifer Hicks […]

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Deals Continue Despite Covid-19

Pandemic resiliency & strategic pivots are buzzwords from a year that has been like none other. For business owners, those words symbolize tireless efforts to stay relevant in a changing and unprecedented 2020 business climate. It’s been a challenging year but there’s good news and reason to remain optimistic. “A strong business will sell,” explained CBI’s Jon Holbert. In fact, […]

Pass The Biscuits, Please!

Have you ever been paid to eat breakfast? Well I have, five times, in one morning. Part of being a business broker is understanding how business works from the boardroom to the backroom or from the kitchen to the cash register. Recently the Owner of a Northwest Arkansas bank retained me to fly to Florida […]

2021: Are We There Yet?

2020 will be the year written into our shared history as one that was full of challenges: both personally and professionally. Day in and day out we worked to keep ourselves, our families, our customers, and our communities safe from the Corona virus while working to keep businesses strong. We leaned into new skills (video […]

Leverage Lessons From 2020 To Fuel Your Plans For 2021

As we all know, 2020 has been a year of too many re-openings and closings as we faced a common enemy that dealt blows of varying degrees to individuals and their businesses. At the time of my writing, we are already seeing an historic response as the first Covid-19 vaccines are being administered and offering […]

Eleven Acquisition Strategies

A successful acquisition strategy involves finding a methodology for the target companies that generates value for the acquirer. The use of an acquisition strategy can protect entrepreneurs from buying businesses for which there is no clear path to achieving a profitable outcome. Instead of simple growth, an acquirer must understand exactly how its acquisition strategy […]

A Parable And A Point On Valuing Price

Business owners have likely seen this conversation play out before: questioning price. In this example, imagine a carpenter and a customer discussing what the price should be for a special, custom-built table. Customer: How much to build a special, custom-built table? Carpenter: $1500 Customer: Seems expensive for building a table. Carpenter: How much do you think it would cost? […]