About Us

Guiding the Journey

The buying or selling of businesses is serious business that involves many steps and complexities.

An experienced guide can make all the difference for business owners who want to maximize their business investments. Such a guide takes care in understanding your needs, explaining the process, finding the best options, and handling the details. Such a guide helps deliver optimal results. Such a guide makes your business life easier.

Calhoun Companies is that experienced guide. For almost 100 years, Calhoun Companies has helped small- to medium-sized business leverage their assets and realize their goals through its business brokerage and commercial real estate services.

Leading the Way

In 1908, Nellie Mason, one of the nation's first female real estate brokers, founded Calhoun Companies with an emphasis on integrity and service.

The emphasis proved successful: Calhoun Companies has grown to become the region's leading business broker, serving Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.

Licensed in all five states, Calhoun Companies operates offices strategically located throughout the region with headquarters in the Twin Cities. Its reach also extends worldwide through membership in prominent national in international brokerage listing services.

Standing By You

The professionals at Calhoun Companies not only know their business, they know the importance of the business to you.

As a result, they work loosely with you during all steps of the process. They listen and learn and then apply their expertise to finding the best options. They walk you carefully through the fine points of the choices and coordinate the arrangements for the transaction as seamlessly as possible.

Covering the Territory

Calhoun Companies offers the full range of services for businesses:

Business Brokerage M&A Services

• Selling: Advertising and marketing, marketing valuation, financial analysis, confidentiality, negotiations, purchase agreements, and closings.
  
  
• Buying: Market assessment and analysis, pricing and terms, lender introductions, business planning, capitalization, negotiations, purchase agreements, and closings.
  

Commercial Real Estate

• Buying
• Selling
• Leasing

Rearching Worldwide

The reach of Calhoun Companies extends nationally and internationally as a result of its participation in leading websites and its affiliation with key organizations. The websites offer access to businesses for sale and include:

• www.bizquest.com
• www.bizbuysell.com
• www.ibba.org
• www.calhouncompanies.com

Calhoun Companies also is a member of:

• Nation-List
• International Business Brokers Association
• Institute of Business Appraisers
• Better Business Bureau
• Minnesota Chamber of Commerce
• M & A Source
• Local, State, and National Board of Realtors

Finding the Path

Selling a business is more than a business decision. It involves persona and financial considerations.

You might know that you want to sell your business. Whatever your situation, you want the best for your business. The business brokers of Calhoun Companies add value to the business of selling businesses. They:

• Clarify the business opportunity
• Understand the market opportunities
• Provide and accurate valuation of your business
• Tap a database of prospective buyers
• Develop marketing and advertising strategies to attract prospective buyer to your business
• Analyze financial issues
• Outline the financial and tax consequences of options
• Coordinate and arrange the specialists and advisors
• Negotiate terms and conditions
• Close the sale

Business brokers allow you to continue to focus on running your business while identifying your opportunities as a seller and coordinating all aspects of the selling process.

Understading the landscape

Calhoun Companies specialized in the sale of all types of small- to medium-sized businesses. We offer extensive experience and enjoy a reputation as a leading business broker in the Upper Midwest. Our knowledgeable professionals combine the kind of expertise that enhances the value of your business with the kind of expertise that enhances the value of your business with the kind of car that you as hard-working business owner deserve.

Calhoun Companies has built its business on finding optimal solutions for business owners. We recognize and honor your confidentiality. We succeed when you succeed in making the most of your investment.

Moving Forward

Business brokers at Calhoun Companies start the selling process by understanding your business, your needs, and your goals. Here's an overview of what you can expect.

• Planning: Identification of business goals and needs; Analysis of market and financial statements; Market valuation; Listing on national and international databases; Marketing and promotion plan
  
  
• Searching: Development of prospect list; Searching; Identification of qualified buyers; Confidentiality agreements; Determination of buyer interest and best matches
  
  
• Deal Making: Buyer meeting; Responses to buyer questions; Negotiations; Agreement in principle
  
  
• Closing: Coordinate due diligence and financing; Issue resolution; Purchase agreement; Document review; Closing

Learning More

Calhoun Companies uses its significant resources on your behalf, and we also understand the importance of discretion while searching for an appropriate match.

Your business broker maintains your confidentiality while marketing you business. The website of Calhoun Companies includes a database that you can explore as an example of how we approach confidential listing and sample confidentiality agreement. You also can learn more about Calhoun Companies.

Calhoun Companies also extends its reach through its affiliation with key organizations. Calhoun Companies is a member of:

• Nation-List
• International Business Brokers Association
• Institute of Business Appraisers
• Better Business Bureau
• Minnesota Chamber of Commerce
• M & A Source
• Local, State, and National Board of Realtors
  

Thinking about buying or selling a business? You can explore the database of businesses on the website of Calhoun Companies. Without divulging business identities, the database allows you to search for a wide variety of businesses for sale by SIC code, size, or geography and to find basic information about them. You also can learn more about Calhoun Companies.