New Off-Market Businesses For Sale

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1/ Coffee Distributor

📍 Location: New York
💼 EBITDA: $500,000
📊 Revenue: $1,200,000
📅 Established: 2009

💭 My 2 Cents: Coffee distribution is a classic route-based business that thrives on recurring orders, and this business has quietly built a profitable operation serving the dense New York metro area. The model is straightforward: place coffee equipment for free at restaurants, offices, and retail locations, then lock in exclusive purchasing agreements for beans, supplies, and related products like cups, napkins, and water. I'm impressed with their strong EBITDA margins which reflects low overhead and efficient routing. However, the owner is still handling deliveries and bookkeeping personally at 69 years old alongside a small team of three employees (including a driver and social media manager), so you'll want to make sure replacement costs are properly accounted for. The business has grown through a mix of referrals, inbound website leads, and direct outreach, which suggests upside for a buyer who professionalizes sales, hires additional drivers, and expands territory coverage into underserved areas of the metro region. I'd want to understand the condition and age of the placed equipment, contract churn rates given the handshake nature of agreements, and whether key accounts could formalize longer-term commitments. The lack of written contracts introduces risk, but in densely populated markets where switching costs are high and service reliability matters, informal arrangements often hold up better than they appear on paper.

2/ Commercial Cleaning Business

📍 Location: Ohio
💼 EBITDA: $500,000
📊 Revenue: $3,500,000
📅 Established: 1970

💭 My 2 Cents: While most commercial cleaning businesses struggle to scale past a handful of clients, this 50-year-old company serving Northeast Ohio has cracked the code on building a true enterprise with 200 employees and institutional-grade infrastructure. With multiple facilities, a fleet of company vehicles, and commercial clients locked into year-long contracts with automatic renewal clauses, this isn't a typical cleaning operation but rather a scaled business with the kind of predictable recurring revenue that larger buyers seek. The business runs almost entirely absentee under the 74-year-old founder (who doesn't have anyone to pass the business onto), with a small office team handling finance, sales, and customer service while field supervisors manage daily operations across dozens of accounts. What's notable is the professional sales function actively generating new business through cold calling and inbound lead conversion, which suggests the company isn't purely dependent on legacy relationships and could accelerate growth with focused marketing spend or expanded geographic coverage. I'd want to understand employee retention metrics given the labor-intensive nature of the work, the breakdown between janitorial contracts and specialty services that might require the second facility's equipment, and whether pricing has kept pace with rising labor costs over recent contract renewals. The 14% EBITDA margin may seem thin, but it reflects the reality of a labor-heavy business where the real value lies in locking up facilities under multi-year contracts that larger competitors can't easily displace.

3/ Countertop Fabrication Business

📍 Location: New York
💼 EBITDA: $1,200,000
📊 Revenue: $8,000,000
📅 Established: 2005

💭 My 2 Cents: Few kitchen and bath businesses achieve the scale and automation this countertop fabricator has built over the past two decades. They’ve developed diversified distribution through partnerships with Lowe's and Home Depot alongside direct relationships with builders and walk-in showroom traffic, which reduces dependence on any single channel and provides steady volume. What stands out to me is their operational sophistication: the manufacturing side runs with just 10 employees on a single shift thanks to heavy automation, suggesting meaningful capacity for a second shift or weekend production without proportional labor costs, while the recent shift to 1099 contractors for installation should improve margins and reduce overhead. I like that the business has grown year over year while actively turning away new partnerships to focus on efficiency gains and margin expansion, signaling both strong demand and untapped profitability for a new owner. That said, I'd want to understand the mix of materials (granite, quartz, marble), average job size and lead times, and whether big box partnerships come with exclusivity clauses or volume commitments that could limit flexibility. Ultimately, the combination of automated manufacturing capacity, established big box distribution that takes years to secure, and untapped upside creates a rare entry point into a fragmented industry where most competitors remain small-scale operations.