Why Expanders

Expanders

Approach

Facilitating outcomes for sellers seeking a fair exit.

What does success mean to you? When Central Ohio contractors are ready to move on, it’s crucial to plan how their businesses and workers will continue to thrive. Selling or closing a business requires thoughtful planning to ensure your employees, customers, and suppliers are cared for, while you gain personal freedom.

The steps to sell your business are not uniform, and the process can be confusing. Without the right information, it is easy to have unrealistic hopes, which can slow down and frustrate the process of getting buyers on board. Things like market conditions, financial strength, and how well you get ready as a seller all affect your business’s value.

Some buyers increase cash flow by cutting jobs, delaying repairs, or taking longer to pay suppliers. Others may even close locations or sell parts of the business, often without thinking about the people or the business’s history.

Others direct phones to ring call centers in another state, purchase cheaper, lower-quality materials to juice margins, and patch things together to make the books look good for the next buyer.

As long-term operators, we do not follow private equity models. The buy, strip, and exit approach does not align with our values for stable, long-term business growth.

Path Forward

We are different, and our process lays the groundwork for a fair exit. Our buy-grow-keep strategy starts with the direct acquisition of established businesses and the retention of the talented employees. This is followed by investing in operations and growth initiatives. We support these companies long-term, prioritizing stability, development, and lasting value for employees and communities.

The main drivers of value include

commitment to integrity and fairness
the culture to retain a quality workforce
operational improvements with technology
cost and cash management for optimization and performance
expansion through acquisition
limited leverage via equity/debt financing structures
employee ownership program

During the horizontal and vertical integration of multiple acquisitions, the business is expected to benefit from economies of scale, greater value, and a stronger market position. This process of sustained growth compounds shareholder value over time.

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Vision Overview

Expanders focus on long-term value creation through growth-based acquisitions, operational excellence, and stakeholder delight. We use acquisitions to change lives.

Purpose

Facilitate the future for sellers and our stakeholders.

Mission

Continue to enhance the lives of owners and stakeholders as we perfect our buy-grow-keep strategy.

Values

This summarizes our guiding beliefs and how we do business.

satisfy stakeholders
manage necessity
apply learning
avoid waste
measure results
carefully acquire
scale success

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Acquisition Focus

Your employees will grow with us as we unite and scale small businesses through acquisition. Our private company acquisition interest is narrowly focused on Central Ohio businesses founded before 2016 that generate annual revenues of $1M to $5M.

Our buy-grow-keep strategy (purchase and grow) in these twelve counties involves retaining jobs in Central Ohio, specifically in Franklin, Delaware, Union, Madison, Fayette, Ross, Pickaway, Fairfield, Licking, Knox, Morrow, and Marion counties.

Franchises and minor stakes are not a focal point for the company. Our interest is limited to these industries.

Construction and Building Trades (Commercial and Residential)
- building, remodeling, HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, paving, hauling, trenching, excavation, etc.

If you have an opportunity in one of these industries, please complete the form on this website’s Seller Details page.

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Why Expanders

Approach

Facilitating outcomes for sellers seeking a fair exit.