What We Buy

We partner with builders.

We acquire businesses with strong reputations, loyal customers, healthy cash flow, and a culture worth preserving — across the trades, manufacturing, distribution, and other essential service sectors.

What We Look For

Five attributes we look for, every time.

We are deliberately broad on industry and deliberately specific on what makes a business worth holding for the long term.


Where We Look

Essential businesses across four families of industry.

We are sector-agnostic in principle and active in practice. The categories below describe where we have current pipeline and operator experience — not a closed list. If your business shares the attributes above, we are interested.

1

Trade & Mechanical Services

HVAC, electrical, plumbing, mechanical contracting, and adjacent specialty trades. Service-driven businesses with recurring or repeat-customer revenue.

2

Manufacturing

CNC machine shops, sheet metal fabrication, industrial coatings, environmental and process equipment, and other established specialty manufacturers.

3

Distribution

Industrial, food, electrical supply, aerospace and military hardware, electromechanical components, and other essential distribution platforms.

4

Building Materials & Lumber

Lumber yards, building-material suppliers, pallet and component manufacturing, and adjacent operations serving construction and industrial customers.

5

Industrial Services

Industrial maintenance, mechanical service, process piping, and specialty trades supporting manufacturers, hospitals, and institutions.

6

Adjacent Specialties

Closely related essential businesses where the operating model, customer base, or growth path resembles our core categories.

The Specifics

Our acquisition profile.

Within these ranges we move quickly and decisively. Outside of them, we will tell you within twenty-four hours.

SDE
$500K – $3MSweet spot $750K – $2M. Seller’s Discretionary Earnings, fairly normalized — not optimized add-backs.
EBITDA
$1M – $5MFor larger deals where EBITDA is the appropriate metric. Owner-adjusted, normalized cash flow.
Revenue
$2M – $25MSmaller bolt-ons considered for existing platforms.
Operating History
Ten years or moreEstablished customer relationships. A team that has been together. Not a startup, not a turnaround.
Geography
United StatesStrong preference for the Midwest and the greater Mississippi River corridor. Other regions considered for the right fit.
Ownership Situation
Retirement, succession, or partner buyoutWe also support recapitalizations where the owner wishes to take chips off the table and stay involved.
Margins & Cash Flow
Cash-positive, recurring revenue meaningfulService contracts, maintenance agreements, repeat institutional customers preferred.
Hold Period
Long-TermWe do not have a fund timeline. We do not have an exit. The company stays.
What Happens After

A thoughtful, measured approach to transition.

We are not here to disrupt. We are here to strengthen and build. The first phase is about understanding; the second is about investing in what we’ve come to understand.

Phase 1

Listen first.

We don’t come in and change everything. We spend time understanding your team, customers, and operations — how the business actually runs, and why.

Phase 2

Stabilize & support.

We support what already works. We address the few things undermining morale or productivity. We identify a small number of meaningful improvements.

Phase 3

Invest in people, systems, & growth.

We fund the things owner-operators run out of time and capital for: equipment, training, capacity, and the next generation of leadership.

Phase 4

Develop leaders within.

We build leadership from inside the business — the supervisors, leads, and managers who already know the work, the customers, and the team.

Phase 5

Build a long-term plan.

A sustainable plan for the next ten years, not the next ten months. Growth that compounds, capacity that holds, a business stronger than the one we acquired.

Think you fit? Let’s find out together.

We respond to every serious inquiry within two business days. Brokers and intermediaries welcome.

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