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Temple business brokers and M&A advisors
If your plan is to sell a company in Temple, MDR & Associates represents you from the first opinion of value to the day funds are wired. Temple grew up as a Santa Fe railroad junction on Interstate 35 and now hosts the headquarters of McLane Company and Wilsonart, so distribution and manufacturing run deep here. Our advisors come to Temple to meet you.
Hospitals, rail and warehouses along I-35 in Bell County
The Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad founded Temple as a railroad town in 1880 and 1881. The Santa Fe Hospital and Scott and White Memorial Hospital followed, merging in 1983, and Baylor Scott & White Health is now the largest employer with roughly 12,000 people. Medicine and the railroad together made Temple the largest city in Bell County, with 82,073 residents in 2020.
Location did the rest. Temple is 68 miles north of Austin, 34 miles south of Waco and 27 miles east of Killeen, within 30 miles of Fort Hood and part of the Killeen–Temple–Fort Hood metro area, with the Leon River along its southwest edge. Several regional distribution centers operate here, along with manufacturing, customer service centers and Temple Bottling Company, which produces Dr Pepper.
Temple at a glance
- CountyBell County
- Metro areaKilleen–Temple–Fort Hood
- Companies we sell$3M–$100M
- Typical transaction3–9 months
- Fee if we do not closeNone
Selling a distribution or supply business in Temple
If you own a trucking, wholesale, parts or supply company that serves the larger operations along the interstate, buyers will look at gross margin by product line, inventory that is counted and valued correctly, and whether the biggest accounts are under contract. Our distribution practice sells wholesalers and parts suppliers; U-Fix-It Appliance Parts is one the firm has closed. Those inventory and margin schedules get built early, well ahead of due diligence.
The same logic applies if your company supports healthcare providers, whether through staffing, billing, equipment service or facility maintenance. Buyers pay for recurring revenue and a team that stays after the sale, and they will want to see how contracts with large health systems are renewed.
Call centers and customer service operations sell on similar terms: length of client contracts, staff turnover and how dependent the business is on one account.
From discovery meeting to buyer list
Step one is a confidential discovery conversation, free of charge, somewhere you choose. After reading three years of financial statements, we give you a range of value. Then comes the preparation: a marketing package, a recast of the numbers and a short HD film about the company, which go to buyers from our own screened list. Buyers never learn your name from an advertisement.
Temple owners are also welcome to see how we work with companies around Austin and across Central Texas.
What we sell in and around Temple
Industry decides the buyer, the multiple and the diligence. These are the four sectors we work in most.
Manufacturing
Equipment, real estate, backlog and customer concentration decide what a manufacturer is worth.
How buyers value itHome Services
Plumbing, HVAC, roofing, landscaping and other home service companies — where repeat customers, crews and technicians decide the price.
How buyers value itDistribution & Wholesale
Inventory, working capital and supplier agreements decide what a distributor is worth.
How buyers value itBusiness Services
Recurring revenue and owner dependence separate a two-times business from a six-times business.
How buyers value itStraight answers
Questions Temple owners ask before they sell
Answered in full by the advisors who run the sales. Every Austin answer.
The process
How a Temple sale runs
Ten steps in four stages, typically three to nine months. Click any step to see it in full.
- Prepare
- Go to market
- Negotiate
- Close
We also work with owners near Temple
Questions owners in Temple ask
My company's largest customer is one of the big Temple distribution centers. How will buyers see that?
They will see both the value of the relationship and the risk. A written agreement, years of steady orders and a record of winning other accounts all reduce the risk. If one customer is a very large share of revenue, we may suggest steps to spread it before going to market.
Is Temple close enough to Austin or Waco for buyers to care?
Buyers value a location on I-35 between larger cities because it opens more customers and workers, but they still price the company on its own earnings. We describe the location accurately and let your results set the value.
Talk to an advisor about your Temple company
Four fields, a reply the same business day, and nothing shared with anyone. If you would rather talk, call (855) 637-2776.