Selling a business in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania has a deep base of long-tenured, family-held operating companies, many of them second or third generation with no successor in place. Those are exactly the businesses we review: established, unglamorous, and often operating from a building the family has owned for decades.
Written and reviewed by Antoine Campbell. Last reviewed .
What we review here
- Industrial and machine service supporting regional manufacturing
- Trades and mechanical contractors across the Susquehanna and Lehigh valleys
- Warehousing and distribution along the freight corridors
- Fleet and equipment service operations
- Multi-generation family businesses facing a succession decision
Pennsylvania-specific items in a transaction
- Realty transfer tax at both state and local levels on property transfers
- Local earned income tax administration, which varies by municipality
- Environmental history on older industrial parcels
- Union agreements in some trades and manufacturing support sectors
A note on presence
Maurant Ventures acquires businesses throughout the United States. Listing a market here means we actively review opportunities there. It is not a claim of a local office.
What Maurant needs to evaluate this
- Three years of tax returns and current financials
- Property ownership and entity structure
- Any collective bargaining agreements
- Environmental history for industrial sites
- Customer concentration among regional manufacturers
When Maurant is not the right buyer
- Businesses whose only customer is a single regional plant
- Sites with unresolved industrial contamination
Questions owners ask
- Do you buy family businesses that want the name kept?
- Yes, and that can be written into the agreement.
- Is union labor a problem?
- Not inherently. The agreements need to be reviewed and modeled.
Sources
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