Business sale advice for Saskatchewan owners
Choose the support that fits your business sale
You may want someone to manage the business sale process more comprehensively, or professional help while you take an active role. Bridgepoint offers two ways to work with Travis Kellett. Start with a confidential discussion about your business, your timing and the work you want help with.
Full Service Business Sales
For owners seeking more comprehensive business sale representation, with a fee primarily payable when a transaction successfully closes. This remains Bridgepoint's principal path for suitable established Saskatchewan businesses, including those typically valued at $1 million to $5 million.
We guide sale positioning, buyer outreach, buyer discussions and the commercial work needed to move a transaction forward with your advisors. Scope, preparation fees, success-fee terms and owner responsibilities are agreed in your engagement. You retain control over offers and final decisions.
Bridgepoint Business Sale Assist
For smaller independent business owners across Saskatchewan who need help selling, are willing to pay consulting fees and are prepared to participate directly. It can suit Saskatoon and other urban businesses, as well as town and rural businesses. Choose individual services or any agreed combination, with payment in advance and no success-based commission.
Choose business valuation, a confidential business profile and blind teaser, targeted buyer marketing, or optional transaction advisory. You may buy a valuation and profile, then market the business yourself; there is no requirement to buy the full program.
Professional help where you need it
Bridgepoint helps explain earnings, the basis for goodwill and a defensible asking price. If you select buyer marketing, we plan and conduct confidential targeted outreach, screen initial enquiries, manage NDAs where you require them and handle buyer financial questions using your records and advisor input. You receive written progress reports at least monthly during active marketing.
You conduct all buyer meetings and site visits, answer operational questions and decide the transaction. Bridgepoint is not required to attend the premises.
Marketing is optional, individually quoted and begins with a prepaid 90-day campaign commitment. Fees pay for the agreed work and commitment whether or not a sale completes. A legally binding conditional offer signed by the buyer and Seller with an operative exclusivity provision stops marketing and future renewal billing without 30 days' notice. Initial fees and commenced monthly marketing fees are retained without prorating. Restart requires written agreement. Commercial transaction advice is optional and separately engaged; advisory work and future advisory billing stop when the Seller or buyer suspends it or the transaction closes.
Compare the two approaches
| Consideration | Full Service Business Sales | Business Sale Assist |
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| Owner involvement | More of the business sale process managed by Bridgepoint | Owner leads buyer meetings and site visits |
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| Fee structure | Preparation and success-fee terms in the engagement | Agreed consulting fees and prepaid campaign; no success commission |
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| Transaction support | Defined in the full-service mandate | Separate optional advisory engagement; preparation and marketing also available individually |
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| Typical fit | Suitable established operating businesses | Smaller independent Saskatchewan businesses with an active owner, in urban, town or rural locations |
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The services and payment arrangements differ. After qualification, we can discuss which model fits the business and how involved you want to be.
Start with the business information
Business valuation
$4,900 plus GST
One business valuation fee, whether you own or lease the premises.
Confidential business profile and one-page blind teaser
$5,000 plus GST
A clear presentation of your business, operations, earnings and ownership opportunity.
All prices are Canadian dollars and fees are payable in advance. The single valuation fee applies whether you own or lease the premises. Market lease assumptions and occupancy-cost adjustments are included where appropriate; an independent real estate appraisal is not included. Choose either preparation service individually, combine them and market the business yourself, or add Bridgepoint buyer marketing. Marketing and optional transaction advisory are quoted after a conversation. Any discount requires Bridgepoint's written agreement.
Full-service success fees
8% of the first $1 million
5% of the second $1 million
Portion above $2 million: custom quoted
Plus GST.
The full-service engagement agreement defines the fee basis and when it is payable. Complex and special situations are custom quoted. These success fees do not apply to Business Sale Assist.
Featured success story
The right successor for a 61-year family business
Four brothers wanted fair value and an independent successor who respected what their father started. Bridgepoint guided the valuation, buyer search and demanding closing.
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What stays confidential
We agree the disclosure approach before outreach. A blind teaser introduces the opportunity without naming the business. We screen buyers preliminarily and obtain an executed NDA before releasing the business identity or confidential profile where you require one. Any release without an NDA requires your express written approval. These steps reduce risk; anonymity and buyer behaviour cannot be guaranteed.
What this consulting service excludes
Business Sale Assist is a business consulting service. It does not include real estate brokerage or agency, listing or showing real property, real property negotiations, lease negotiations or assignments, purchaser deposits or trust funds, legal services, tax advice or independent real estate appraisals. Owners engage appropriate separate professionals. No particular buyer count, offer, sale price or successful transaction is guaranteed.
Discuss your next step
Considering retirement, succession or a sale? Tell Travis about your business and the support you need. We will help you understand the options before you commit to an engagement.
travis@yourbridgepoint.ca
