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New Deals: A specialty coffee co-packer, screen printing business, and 3 other finds

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1/ Specialty Coffee Co-Packer

📍 Location: Wisconsin
💰 Asking Price: $3,062,500
💼 EBITDA: $528,218
📊 Revenue: $2,159,386
📅 Established: 2014

💭 My 2 Cents: Coffee remains one of the most consistent consumer purchases worldwide, and demand is increasingly shifting toward private label offerings and specialty and flavored options. This family-owned coffee roasting and packaging business, with thousands of B2B clients across the U.S. and Canada, has become a go-to provider of custom-flavored coffee and private label solutions. Its contract manufacturing for other labels provides a solid baseline of steady sales, while in-house production capabilities allow them to sell their own products at very competitive prices. I also like how the sale includes $1M of real estate and nearly $1M of FF&E, with these assets providing both a barrier to entry and potential financing advantages. I’d want to know what percentage of their revenue is contractual or repeat (given that smaller B2B accounts like cafés and offices often purchase on a PO basis without binding contracts whereas mid-to-large accounts are more likely to sign formal agreements), their historical gross margin trends vs. coffee commodity price changes, supplier contracts and hedging strategies, the state of their roasting/packaging equipment (review maintenance logs), and their current production output versus peak capacity with existing equipment. The current owner oversees operations from out of state, so this cash-flowing, turnkey business should appeal to someone seeking a remote opportunity.

2/ Screen Printing Business

📍 Location: Massachusetts
💰 Asking Price: $2,900,000
💼 EBITDA: $691,805
📊 Revenue: $2,035,376
📅 Established: 2010

💭 My 2 Cents: This screen printing and embroidery company provides a full suite of services from garment sourcing and artwork design to printing, packing, and fulfillment. While there's a lot of low-cost online competition, few are true one-stop shops like this one. They have an in-person showroom that likely helps close larger corporate contracts and also do a large volume of business online, with monthly production capacity currently reaching up to 120,000 units and the ability to double that by adding a second shift. I like how their nationwide clientele features particularly strong relationships in the sports, music, education, and healthcare industries, as many of these businesses can be counted on for repeat orders (whether seasonally or annually). There are also meaningful onshoring tailwinds as tariffs narrow the price gap, especially as consumers increasingly favor apparel that’s ethically produced and domestically sourced. I’d need to look into any possible client concentration, frequency of reorders, gross margins by service line, online vs. showroom revenue trends, the condition of the $500K in equipment included in the sale, current turnaround times, error/reprint rates, and key employee retention risk for designers and machine operators. While simple businesses are always appealing, this one also offers very strong margins and significant growth capacity without the need for major capital investments.

3/ Commercial Electrical Contractor

📍 Location: Georgia
💰 Asking Price: $1,750,000
💼 EBITDA: $602,000
📊 Revenue: $3,750,000
📅 Established: 1998

💭 My 2 Cents: I always like it when an electrical contractor has a lot of commercial work, as this usually means larger ticket sizes, sticky clients, and more recurring revenue. This company generates about 95% of its revenue from commercial projects, with the rest from select residential work. I also like that they have a high proportion of recurring revenue through service contracts, which helps protect them against downturns, and that they are an authorized dealer for a nationally recognized generator brand, a factor that can drive steady sales, improve credibility, and open doors to larger commercial clients. I’d want to analyze their service agreements to understand terms, length, renewal rates, termination clauses, and pricing escalators. I’d also want to ensure they’re not overly reliant on a few large accounts, review their payment terms (net-60 or longer is common and can affect cash flow without sufficient working capital), and understand the territory restrictions, exclusivity, and renewal conditions for their generator brand relationship, as well as the retention risk for key electricians and service techs. Assuming key personnel (especially licensed technicians) remain post-transition, this looks like a proven, profitable, and boring business.

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4/ Landscaping Business

📍 Location: Colorado
💰 Asking Price: $5,495,000
💼 EBITDA: $1,100,000
📊 Revenue: $3,700,000
📅 Established: 2004

💭 My 2 Cents: I really like the location of this landscaping business, as they operate in a market with many high-end homes and wealthy clients, allowing them to achieve high margins while providing high-quality services. They offer a full range of landscaping capabilities, including new builds, remodeling, and maintenance, for a clientele that spans homeowners, HOAs, multi-family residences, and commercial properties. Critically, they handle snow removal, which in their snow-heavy area in Colorado guarantees a steady flow of off-season work. I also like their robust staff, the almost $1.5M in FF&E and inventory included in the sale, and their especially strong start to 2025, with revenue trending up 39%. I’d want to scope out what % of their revenue comes from HOAs and commercial properties (which often sign multi-year contracts), how much recurring maintenance work they do, their revenue split between landscaping and snow removal, their crew turnover rate and availability of supervisors/foremen, and the condition of their vehicles, plows, and landscaping equipment. Given the strong market, diversified service mix, and included assets, this business appears well-positioned for both stability and growth.

5/ Construction Products Supplier

📍 Location: North Carolina
💰 Asking Price: $3,700,000
💼 EBITDA: $1,141,186
📊 Revenue: $4,234,692
📅 Established: 1985

💭 My 2 Cents: This nearly 40-year-old specialty construction product supplier and installer serves multi-unit, multi-family, and commercial contractors across the Southeast. Known for products such as door hardware, bath accessories, shelving, and blinds, over 75% of their revenue comes from repeat customers, with operations supported by long-term contractor relationships and a robust project management system that boosts efficiency and supports strong margins. I really like their regional footprint, as their wide service area and client base should help ensure they aren’t overly affected by a downturn in any given local market, while any business with this long a history gets a bonus point in my book (and gives a potential buyer a trove of information to reference in diligence). I’d want to understand their pipeline of multi-family/commercial projects in their key markets over the next 2–3 years, how concentrated their revenue is among their largest clients, inventory lead time and turnover, how they compete on price with national and online distributors, and how they handle the challenges of a service area across multiple states with a lean staff of 7. Given the specialty nature of this business, this could be a great fit for a buyer with a background in construction or inventory management.

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