What you built deserves the right next chapter
Whether you are ready to retire, diversify personal wealth or partner with a larger firm to accelerate growth, Accelerated creates a confidential, competitive process designed around your financial, employee and legacy objectives.
Since 1994
NATIONAL Manufacturing M&A
$5–100M
Sell-side client revenue range
$10–100M
BUY-SIDE TARGET REVENUE RANGE
Different ways we work with sellers
Your desired outcome determines your path
For owners ready to transition
Complete Sale & Succession
Convert the value you created into liquidity and select the right steward for the business, its employees and the relationships that made it successful.
Common priorities
Value
Certainty of closing
Confidentiality
Transition
Employee opportunity
Legacy
For owners ready to accelerate
Recapitalization & Growth Partnership
Identify a strategic or financial partner that can provide capital, customers, leadership depth, technology or geographic reach while you retain a meaningful role or ownership stake.
Common priorities
Partial liquidity
Aligned governance
Retained ownership
Strategic resources
Shared long-term vision
Specialized manufacturing valuations
Value is more than a multiple.
Traditional valuation methods fail to capture the true value of a manufacturing company. Adjusted EBITDA is a starting point, not the answer. Accelerated considers over 175 different data points to determine the value of a manufacturing company.
With the Accelerated team it is never about telling you what you want to hear. It is about considering the complete picture to arrive at the true value — including the drivers that never appear in the financials.
Our valuation methods are proven by more than thirty years of transaction history, in which manufacturing companies have sold or gained investment at or above our valuation.
Schedule a valuation consultationFactors traditional valuations miss
Industry certifications
AS9100, ISO 13485, NADCAP and similar approvals expand the buyer universe and transfer real value at close
Difficulty and tolerances
What you make and the tolerances you hold it to. Work others cannot easily replicate carries a premium
Customer relationships
Length, strength and tenure of customer programs, not simply this year's revenue concentration
Equipment quality and age
Capability, condition and remaining life of the equipment base, and what a buyer would need to reinvest
Technology implementation
ERP systems, robotics and automation that make performance repeatable and transferable to new ownership
What a specialized valuation changes
Three companies, three second opinions
Each of these owners had already been appraised before they came to us.
20% higher
Appraised by three other firms before coming to us. Our valuation was twenty percent above the next highest, because it accounted for the difficulty of the components and the tolerances the company worked to. Within three months the company attracted multiple offers and went under contract above our valuation.
25% higher
A foundry-industry equipment manufacturer came to us after being appraised by a prominent CPA firm. Our valuation was twenty-five percent higher, and the business sold in line with it.
2× prior offers
Listed for more than four years with no appropriate offers. After our valuation, the company sold for more than double what had previously been offered.
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Valuing a manufacturing company presents challenges that just don't exist in other sectors. Specific industry knowledge is critical in understanding value drivers. Our proprietary process looks beyond the balance sheet and has been proven with over thirty years of successful M&A transactions and investments at or above our valuation price.
Frances Brunelle
Founder & President
Do you know the true value of your manufacturing company?
Request a confidential consultationIs Accelerated the right advisor for you?
Manufacturing specialization improves client outcomes.
We accept select engagements where manufacturing knowledge, national reach and a disciplined process can materially improve the outcome.
Manufacturing company
Your value depends on capabilities, equipment, certifications, processes, people, intellectual property and end-market positioning — not earnings alone.
Lower middle market manufacturing sellers
You care not only about price, but also who takes the company forward and what the transaction means for employees and customers.
National reach
Your company requires a national buyer or partner universe rather than a local brokerage approach.
Ready for a real process
You are prepared to share information confidentially, evaluate qualified parties and make decisions with professional guidance.
A disciplined national process
From your objectives to the right transaction
A strong outcome begins well before the company reaches the market. We prepare the story, the evidence and the buyer universe around the result you actually want.
Clarify your objectives, timing, financial priorities, desired role and what must be protected through the transaction.
What this produces
A written objective the whole process is built around.
Analyze earnings, assets, capabilities, certifications, customers, intellectual property, growth prospects and market conditions.
What this produces
A manufacturing-specific view of value, not a multiple alone.
Organize financial and operating information, identify potential concerns and build a credible, manufacturing-specific presentation.
What this produces
Diligence-ready materials before buyers ever see them.
Frame the company's value, strategic fit and future opportunity for the buyers or partners most likely to recognize it.
What this produces
A story aimed at the parties who will pay for it.
Conduct confidential national outreach and create a focused market of qualified strategic and financial parties.
What this produces
Real competition among buyers who can actually close.
Compare value, structure, certainty, cultural fit, employee considerations and the buyer's ability to complete the transaction.
What this produces
A decision made on more than the highest number.
Coordinate negotiations, diligence and professional advisors while protecting momentum through signing and closing.
What this produces
Momentum held from letter of intent through closing.
Seven steps, and the first one is a conversation.
Request a confidential consultationSeller resources & FAQs
The essential owner guidance
Our owner promise
Confidentiality
Manufacturing-informed value
Qualified buyer competition
Clear, candid guidance
Can the process remain confidential?
Yes. Your company is marketed without identifying details, and sensitive information is withheld until a prospective buyer or partner has executed the required agreement and met Accelerated's professional and financial standards.
How do I decide between a complete sale and a growth partnership?
The right structure depends on desired liquidity, future involvement, risk tolerance, growth capital needs and the resources required to reach the next level. We clarify these objectives before approaching the market so the process attracts parties aligned with them.
What should I improve before going to market?
Through the valuation process, we sometimes determine that it is not the right time for a manufacturing company to go to market. We can provide an analysis of how specific improvements can improve the ultimate result.
How is Accelerated compensated for sell-side representation?
For qualified sell-side engagements, Accelerated does not charge an upfront fee. Compensation is success-based and defined in the engagement agreement before work begins. We do have additional fee-based services available that involve strategic planning and analysis.
A confidential first conversation
You do not need to have every answer before you begin.
Tell us what you are considering — a complete transition, partial liquidity or a larger partner for growth. We will help you understand value, timing, fit and the options available without pressure or obligation.
Your preferred starting point
A complete sale, a recapitalization or a growth partner — you choose which on the next screen. Every conversation begins confidentially and without obligation.
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