NEWS

For the past 24 months, many manufacturing and industrial services business owners have sat on the sidelines, waiting for the dust to settle on interest rates and inflation. The wait is over. Data from late 2024 and 1H 2025 from major M&A monitors like Pitchbook and PwC confirm a decisive shift. We are no longer in a "recovery" phase; we have entered an acceleration phase. With deal volumes surging 15-20% year-over-year  and valuations for high-quality industrial assets rebou

Hundreds of management presentations are reviewed each year, and almost all of them promote a seemingly important number: Revenue per Employee. We hear exciting figures like “$300K per employee!” “$800K per employee!” “$1.5M per employee!” Sounds great, right? Not so fast. For investors, relying on this metric to gauge the potential of a portfolio company is risky at best. Using Revenue per Employee to predict profitability is like using miles per gallon as a metric to predic

Across the construction, A/E and the commercial/residential/facility services sectors, the story is the same: demand for acquisitions is outpacing supply and buyers are paying premium multiples (6-15x) for companies.  The Market is Accelerating: A Look at the Numbers After a record-breaking 2024 that saw deal activity in the Construction & Engineering (C&E) sector surge by 34%, the market has defied expectations and accelerated into 2025. o   1H 2025 A/E grew by 31% by deal

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