Sell My Green Business

From The Daily News
A nursery in Midtown whose owner likes to jump at opportunities will spread its green thumb to two new locations in time for planting season this year.
By temporarily taking over two well-known sites of now-closed nurseries, Mike Earnest, owner of Midtown Nursery at 2120 Central Ave. at Cooper Street, hopes to cross-promote [...]

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One of the conversations we have with new clients or potential clients early on is to discuss the range of likely buyers for their business.  We ask them for their insight and it is usually very helpful.  We talk about all of the kinds of potential buyers – competitors, suppliers, customers, national companies, companies serving [...]

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The Senate approved Saturday a bill extending the increase in the guaranteed portion of many SBA-guaranteed loans from 75% to 90% and waiving guaranty fees through February.  This provision is included in the Defense Appropriation bill.   An additional proposal to extend these incentives through September is pending in the House-passed Jobs for Main Street [...]

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From Lawn & Landscape Online
GAITHERSBURG, Md. – The Brickman Group has acquired The Green Plan, based in Broomfield, Colo.
The Green Plan’s two locations, north and south of Denver, will join Brickman’s four existing branches in Denver, Englewood and Colorado Springs. Last fall, Brickman acquired Boston-area D. Foley Landscape.
“I realized that in order to grow the [...]

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Earlier this week, I was searching for some information on Lawn and Landscape Online and I noticed an article about Brad Johnson of LawnAmerica in Tulsa’s plans to hike the Appalachian Trail later this year.  It piqued my interest for a variety of reasons – I am originally from the Tulsa area and I am [...]

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I recently called a green industry businessman about a business opportunity  – a business for sale in a complementary segment of the green industry.  It wasn’t an obviously  perfect fit, but I thought there was a chance he might be interested enough to take a look.  After hearing that I was calling about a potential [...]

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From Accuval. Read it all here.
Year after year, many Americans take part in the holiday tradition of purchasing and decorating a Christmas tree. While decorating homes with greens and lights was started by the Romans, it was the Germans and Scandinavians that placed evergreen trees inside their homes in a demonstration of hope for the [...]

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DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla., Dec. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Sunair Services Corporation (NYSE Amex: SNR) announced today that its shareholders, voting at a special meeting, approved the merger of Sunair with and into a wholly-owned subsidiary of Massey Services, Inc. In connection with the merger, each outstanding share of Sunair’s common stock (other than shares held by [...]

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Although attendance data has been released for GIE+Expo 2009, the release focused only on the bright spots (something I am occasionally accused of!  A simple comparison with the information for 2008 shows overall attendance dipped from approximately 19,500 to 16,500 this year, a nearly 15% drop.  However, I would call that a good performance given [...]

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Selling your business is always a difficult decision and the process can be long and complicated. This process can be especially difficult for smaller businesses. These deals are often seen as “too small to be worth anything” to many buyers and credit is available to very few local buyers who can see the value in [...]

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