Owners who have already been through it.
A press release tells you a company sold. It does not tell you what the year before the sale felt like, what nearly went wrong, or what the founder would do differently. These are the parts owners actually want to hear, told by the people who lived them.
Six kids, an old truck, and five bids
Ed Keenan started PestGon in 1980 with a borrowed idea and a junky old truck. Forty-five years later, five qualified buyers competed for it and the bids were 50 percent apart. The company had not changed between offers. The process had.
Chris and Jen Murphy: handing over a name
The Murphys built their business the way route businesses are won: one relationship at a time. When they decided it was time to sell, the question was not only price. It was who would take care of the people and customers whose names they knew.
More stories are on the way
We are filming with more owners who have closed with us. In the meantime, our public deals are on the transactions page, and Kemp is happy to put you in touch with a past client directly.
Different companies. The same three decisions.
They did not go it alone
"We’d never sold a business before and didn’t know what the future held," Ed Keenan said. Every owner here brought in representation rather than negotiating against a buyer who does this every week.
They created competition
Multiple qualified buyers, on one timeline. That is the single decision behind the 50 percent spread in PestGon’s bids.
They protected the people
Price is only half of it. Who takes care of your people and your customers after closing is a term worth negotiating just as hard.