Sell My Green Business

By Richard Helling, The Principium Group

Breaking  the news to your employees is one of the most difficult elements of selling your business. Many business owners wait until the very last minute to tell their employees, partly out of a concern for maintaining confidentiality and, often, due to dread of telling long-time employees.
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Cordova, Tennessee – October 22 – The Principium Group, Inc. announced today the publication of How to Sell Your Green Business – A Practical Guide for Green Industry Business Owners.
How to Sell Your Green Business is a practical guide for owners of green industry businesses such as lawn care companies, landscape contractors, nurseries, garden centers [...]

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Franchised businesses are very common in various aspects of the Green Industry, ranging from some of the biggest players in the industry to newer start-up franchises.  Such names as Lawn Doctor, US Lawns, Weed Man and many others come to mind, in addition to franchise affiliates of large industry players like TruGreen and Scotts Lawn [...]

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The Small Business Administration has issued its new guidance on business acquisition loans and the news is pretty good for both buyers and sellers.
The new guidance in effect rescinds much more restrictive guidance issued in early 2009 that had raised widespread confusion and concern in the minds of borrowers, lenders, intermediaries and small business advocates.
Under [...]

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First courses are Planning for the Sale of Your Green Industry Business –  and Planning an Acquisition Strategy – How to Grow Your Green Industry Business with Strategic Acquisitions
PRLog (Press Release) – Jul 17, 2009 – The Principium Group today announced  a new seminar series for owners of green industry businesses who are considering [...]

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Cordova, Tennessee – June 18 – The Principium Group, Inc. announced today the launch of The Principium Business For Sale By Owner Program.  This program, modeled after for sale by owner programs that are popular in the real estate industry, gives business owners who are contemplating selling their business without the use of a broker [...]

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By Ron Edmonds,  The Principium Group
One of things I often tell my clients is “Every deal has its time.”
What I mean by that is that many, many different factors involving a buyer, a seller, the economy, an industry and credit markets all have to line up for a transaction to have a [...]

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By Ron Edmonds, The Principium Group

Is it better to sell during the season or the off-season? This is a question we are often asked by green industry business owners.
For many reasons, green industry business owners often prefer to think about selling during the off-season. This is true for many reasons, but probably the [...]

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Lawn & Landscape is reporting that TruGreen is exploring opportunities to expand its lawn, tree and shrub care business in North America by acquiring companies that have built a strong customer base in their markets and share TruGreen’s commitment to excellent customer service and reliability.
They quote newly-named TruGreen president Styeven Donly as saying, “Strategic acquisitions [...]

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Employee ownership within the green industry is neither new nor unusual. Green industry companies are often owner-managed and there has often been a desire to make an ownership opportunity available to key employees, either to facilitate a business transition or to retain key employees. A number of leading companies within the industry are employee-owned and, [...]

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