my uncle passed away not that long ago. he and my aunt had a small printing biz in a 1000sq ft office. its located in Windsor NJ and she is looking to sell the biz as a whole or possibly sell all the equipment. i dont know anything about the biz. she's asking $95k for the biz. if anyones interested or could assist me in assisting my aunt it would be deeply appreciated.

Bernie
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You can give me a ring Bern, but that sounds way different than what we do here. There are over 100,000 printers in the US, unfortunately trying to sell one of those businesses is as bad (or worse) than selling a performance boat right now. The best bet would be to find a local competitor that wants the account list/equipment.

I just wonder why it is as bad or worse than a boat? Is it just because of the size or is there something else. Is your business showing slowdowns. I am just asking because I just got into this business and I know you know more about it than I do and am wondering if there are slow times coming.

I would think alternate technologies. I know we used to use off set printing constantly for scales on meters, until lasers and other means came out. Now I can print just one, in about 30 seconds with no mess or clean up. Offset only makes sense for large runs now, at least for our application.

A well run printing busines can be profitable....the problem is selling one. There are too many companies out there and a number of them are losing money. If you're considering buying a printing company you'd have to pay top dollar for mine.....or, go find one of my competitors that are doing poorly whose owner just wants to sell and get out. (Kinda like boats in that once you pick the model you want, you can usually find someone who needs to sell worse than you need to buy. This is why some of these boats (or companies) are being sold alot cheaper than you would think they're worth).

BTW: contact Bern....you would be a better source of information for him than I would be.

Ok that is what I thought you where getting at. Mainly because it is small and there are a ton of small ones out there for sale. I have been looking at companies for sale mainly just to see if something is more profitable than something else you can learn a lot just from a listing and under $100,000 there are probably 150 or so for sale in the country. In my opinion probably the most valuable asset is the contacts if it is b2b.

and joe what we do is digital up to 1000pcs then it goes on to our press or someone elses if it is bigger.