Sell a Business

Beacon Corporation, Brokerage (Beacon) is Toronto's leading business brokerage. At Beacon we offer our clients the advantages of a full-service business brokerage and advisory services to help them sell their business. Typically, this level of expertise, experience, and service is only available to large corporations, but we believe in working hand-in-hand with our clients - often small and medium-size companies - as their business intermediary in business brokerage transactions to ensure they receive the industry best-in-class advisory services for selling their company.

We specialize in building relationships that bring together sellers and buyers of privately held small and medium size businesses with revenues between approximately $1M and $20M across Toronto, the GTA and Southern Ontario. Business brokers also called intermediaries or listing agents, assist business owners in selling their businesses by matching screened buyers and streamlining the selling process.

On a daily basis Beacon's team gets involved in assisting business owners in the planning, valuation, confidential marketing, negotiation and ultimately consummating transactions of small to medium-size privately held businesses. We represent a wide variety of Businesses for Sale across diverse industries and sectors, ranging from general contractors and other construction trades, to printing and manufacturing businesses. We have extensive experience with both Business-to-Business (B2B) and Business to Consumer (B2C) companies. To get an idea of the variety of businesses that we carry in our portfolio, click here.

As members of the International Business Brokers Association we pride ourselves on deploying highly sophisticated methods of preparation, valuation, marketing, and negotiation leading up to a successful business deal. We work within exclusive representation terms with our partners and our listings are not available through public domains like the Multiple Listing Services (MLS). As the opportunities we represent are generally well-performing, established businesses, we are extremely careful in marketing them confidentially and without disruptions to current operations. As part of our commitment to both sellers and buyers each business' performance is summarized within a confidential memorandum that is made available to pre-screened buyers only after they have signed a Non Disclosure Agreement.

No matter how accomplished in the respective business field a company is active in, chances are that selling a business is not the business owner's core specialty. This is why at Beacon while we do not try to be specialists in every industry or business area, we are committed to being the best mediator and agent for small to medium-size business owners in the process of a business disposition. The shortest way to achieving a successful closing and getting a reward for the owner's 'sweat equity' is by following our advice and experience, as well as embracing the process Beacon has developed to assist business owners through this sometimes overwhelming and exciting process. The main steps of the business selling process consist of:

1. Discuss owner's readiness to sell, and enlisting of Beacon's brokerage services;
   
2. Business valuation to determine the Most Probable Selling Price;
   
3. Confidentially marketing the business and qualifying prospective buyers;
   
4. Introduction between the buyer and seller, and visit to the business operations;
   
5. Negotiation of the terms in the Purchase Agreement;
   
6. Investigation during the Due Diligence period;
   
7. Closing of the transaction

At Beacon Corporation, Brokerage we have extensive experience in helping business owners sell their business successfully, so if you are interested in putting up your business in the GTA and southern Ontario for sale, please contact us here and provide some information on your company. Someone from our team will be in touch shortly. For more resources regarding how to sell a business, click here. We are looking forward to help you sell your business!