Cole & Company, Inc. is a professional business intermediary firm assisting entrepreneurs in the purchase and sale of small businesses. Our experienced and certified brokers and appraisers offer business brokerage services, business appraisals, and machinery & equipment appraisals. We have valued and transferred ownership of manufacturing, service, energy, medical, agricultural, retail, distribution and professional practice firms of various sizes. We represent business sellers in Western Colorado and Northern New Mexico and business buyers, lenders, attorneys and accountants on a national basis.
Most people fail to keep their New Year’s Resolutions. But where buying and selling a business is concerned, failing to keep those resolutions could mean an abundance of lost opportunity. Todd Ganos at Forbes recently penned a thought-provoking article entitled The 8 New Year’s Resolutions for the Sale of Your Business. In this article, he […]
Every business has to be concerned about maintaining confidentiality. In fact, it is common for business owners to become somewhat obsessed with confidentiality when they are getting ready to sell their business. It goes without saying that owners don’t want the word that they are selling to spread to the public, employees or most certainly […]
What exactly does the term “goodwill” mean when it comes to buying or selling a business? Usually, the term “goodwill” is a reference to all the effort that a seller puts into a business over the years that he or she operates that business. In a sense, goodwill is the difference between an array of […]
