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Texarkana business brokers and M&A advisors
A Texarkana, Texas, owner preparing to sell a company can put MDR & Associates to work as an M&A advisor with one client in the deal, the seller, handling value, buyers and negotiation. The city sits where Interstate 30 meets four U.S. highways on the Arkansas line, about 180 miles northeast of Dallas. We make the trip from our corporate office in Frisco and meet wherever suits you.
Army depot, tire plant and paper: the employers behind the local economy
Texarkana, Texas, counted 36,193 residents in 2020, and together with Texarkana, Arkansas, it anchors a metropolitan area of 149,482 that takes in Bowie County and Miller County. The largest employer is the Red River Army Depot and its tenants, with 2,225 workers. Christus St. Michael Health Care follows with 1,800, then Cooper Tire & Rubber with 1,793. Graphic Packaging, Domtar and Wadley Regional Medical Center round out a list that mixes defense, healthcare and heavy industry.
Employers of that size need a web of smaller companies around them: machine shops, maintenance contractors, industrial suppliers, staffing and service firms. Education adds to it, with Texas A&M University–Texarkana and Texarkana College both in the city. Because Interstate 30 crosses U.S. highways 59, 67, 71 and 82 here, Texarkana suits companies that move goods, and our distribution and wholesale page covers how buyers value them.
Texarkana at a glance
- CountyBowie County
- Metro areaTexarkana metropolitan area
- Companies we sell$3M–$100M
- Typical transaction3–9 months
- Fee if we do not closeNone
Selling a company that straddles two states
Many Texarkana companies buy, sell and employ on both sides of the state line. That is normal here, but a buyer's attorney will want a clean picture of where revenue is earned, where people work and which entity holds each contract. We sort that out with you and your CPA before any buyer sees the numbers, because questions raised late in due diligence are where deals lose value.
Customer concentration is the other point buyers study closely. If the depot, the tire plant or a hospital system provides a large share of your sales, the marketing package shows how many years you have served that customer, what the agreements say and how often they have been renewed, so the buyer is pricing a documented account. We then approach qualified buyers from our own database, under confidentiality agreements, and push for several letters of intent at once. Our business valuation work is where that preparation starts, and other cities in the region are listed on the East Texas page.
What we sell in and around Texarkana
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 Texarkana owners ask before they sell
Answered in full by the advisors who run the sales. Every Texas-wide answer.
The process
How a Texarkana 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 Texarkana
Questions owners in Texarkana ask
How do buyers treat a supplier whose biggest customer is Red River Army Depot?
They look at how long the work has lasted, how it is contracted and what would happen if it shrank. Government-related revenue can be attractive because it tends to be steady, but heavy dependence on one account lowers value. We show the history and your other customers so the buyer sees the whole picture.
Does it matter whether my Texarkana company is organized in Texas or Arkansas?
It matters to the structure of the deal, not to whether you can sell. Our clients are Texas companies or companies with operations in Texas, so a Bowie County business qualifies either way. Your transaction attorney and CPA decide how the entity and assets should be handled, and we work alongside them from the start.
Talk to an advisor about your Texarkana company
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