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Taking Care of Employees is Owners Top Priority After Price When Selling Their Business (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) May 20, 2017 – Concern for their employees topped the list of priorities, after price, for business owners looking to sell their business, according to the quarterly Market Pulse Report published by the International Business Brokers Association(IBBA), M&A Source,…

In May of 2017, Dave Clark and Tom Kerchner of BMI and David Olson of Walton Consulting jointly presented a program for business owners detailing how to maximize business value. Held at the Lehigh Country Club, the seminar addressed the long term and short term actions that business owners and their advisors should be taking…

On April 25, BMI presented a seminar, “Preparing to sell or buy a business” to the CFO Forum at the Manufacturers Resource Center in Allentown Pennsylvania. The CFO Forum was created to share best practices and best processes among private company financial executives in eastern Pennsylvania. The forum is lead by Gary Bender, CFO, business…

BMI Mergers & Acquisitions announces the sale of The Rose Corporation to a strategic buyer based in Philadelphia, PA. The Rose Corporation, 401 North Eighth Street, Reading, PA, a privately owned contract manufacturing steel fabrication company, has become a sister company to Abbott Furnace, St. Mary’s, Pennsylvania.  Having been purchased by the same owner, Edmund…

BMI Managing Director, Tom Kerchner has been named a Mergers & Acquisitions Master Intermediary(M&AMI) by the M&A Source.  According to the M&A Source, the M&AMI designation “distinguishes its holders as seasoned intermediary professionals who have a solid educational background (and) proven accomplishments in completing deals…the M&AMI is the only designation to require both educational credits…

Recapitalization Emerges as a Top Reason for Sale of Small Businesses According To Market Pulse Quarterly Report (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) November 30, 2016 – For the first time in nearly three years, recapitalization has replaced burnout as one of the top reasons that businesses valued at $5-50MM go to market, according to the quarterly Market Pulse…