• An owner of a fifty year old AGS store in California wanted to sell his business. After several years of trying to find a buyer who could pay him his “worth” in the business (inventory, goodwill & turnkey location), he became somewhat resigned to the fact that he would just have to close down, or simply conduct a Going Out Of Business Sale. Another issue was he really didn’t want to quit wor...

Age Of Store……………………………………………50 Years

Most Recent Annual Sales Volume (w/o repairs)…..$206,000

Owned Inventory On hand at cost……………………$174,000

Status Of Owned Inv…………………Aged Jewelry, China & Giftware 

Average Mark-up Jewelry…………………………….2.5 times Cost

Typical Discount at point of sale………………………20%

Goal Of Sale

Convert older slower turn inventory into cash, and apply to vendor debt as well as any lingeri...

• The Owner Of A 75 year old AGS Store in Connecticut  wanted to sell 

his store, or close down. No buyers appeared that were willing to pay him 

the worth of the store, although his daughter “thought” she might want 

to take it over, but wasn’t quite sure when she considered the demands 

placed on her by her husbands business, their household, and the kids. 

All parties involved wanted to try...

 St. Louis – store volume 2,500,000 annually

o Period of sale July fourth through Labor Day 

o Typical Period volume - $488,000

o Projection given  - $848,000 to $1,090,000

o Result achieved - $957,000

o Theme “retiring passing the torch (father to son)”

o Store Remained Open

 North Carolina – Store Volume $450,000 annually

o Period of sale Mid Nov through January 

o Typical Period volume $14...

 The Owner Of a successful 27 year old store in Louisiana Had no one 

in the family to pass the business to, and wanted to get over $500,000 in 

cash out from the sale of the store. After four years the best offer she got 

was $150,000 for the “turn-key operation”, plus “A Pick of The 

 Solution – We developed a “Three-Phase approach” which 

was conducted from late June through mid January of...