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Benchmark Business Group, LLC

Benchmark Business Group, LLC presents itself as a business brokerage and business consulting provider serving business sellers and buyers throughout the United States. Its public process includes an opinion of value, an exclusive listing agreement, confidential marketing to pre-qualified buyers, and transaction coordination.

Key takeaway

What stands out about Benchmark Business Group, LLC

Benchmark Business Group, LLC publicly describes a confidential brokerage model for privately held businesses and nationally known franchises. Its stated services include valuation, confidential marketing, buyer qualification, negotiations, financing assistance, due diligence coordination, and closing support. Benchmark's buyer page does not publish a universal seller commission percentage, minimum fee, tail period, termination schedule, or detailed engagement-fee schedule.[1][2][3][5][6]

What does Benchmark Business Group, LLC do?

Benchmark Business Group, LLC identifies itself as a business brokerage and business consulting provider. Its publicly stated services include business brokerage, business coaching, business consulting, business evaluations, succession planning, strategic planning, and systems design and documentation.[1][2]

Benchmark states that its seller process includes confidentiality, an opinion of value, an exclusive listing agreement, confidential marketing, seller coaching, buyer negotiations, financing assistance, due diligence coordination, and closing support. The firm also publicly describes business evaluations, succession planning, coaching, consulting, strategic planning, and systems design and documentation.[2][3]

Owners comparing intermediaries can also review Auxo’s business broker, M&A advisor and investment bank comparison, advisor-selection guide, and M&A advisor fee guide.

Public size / criteria information
Benchmark describes its inventory as privately held businesses and nationally known franchises, with dozens of opportunities available to buyers. For its stated full-disclosure brokerage process, sellers provide three prior years of business tax returns, current-year profit and loss statements, asset and liability information, premises lease information, a fair and equitable purchase price, and buyer training.[5]

What should a business owner evaluate before hiring Benchmark Business Group, LLC?

An owner evaluating Benchmark may want to obtain the written commission and expense schedule, exclusivity and termination terms, valuation methodology, buyer-qualification standards, and references for comparable completed transactions. The owner may also wish to clarify how confidentiality is managed, which information is disclosed at each stage, how financing assistance relates to the opinion of value, and which legal entity signs the engagement agreement.[3][5][6]

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What are the commission percentage, minimum fee, reimbursable expenses, tail period, and termination rights

Benchmark’s buyer page does not publish a universal seller commission percentage, minimum fee, tail period, termination schedule, or detailed engagement-fee schedule.[5]
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Is the listing exclusive, and for how long

Benchmark’s stated seller process includes an exclusive listing agreement. An owner should confirm its duration and termination terms.[3]
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Which legal entity signs the engagement agreement

The official website identifies Benchmark Business Group, LLC; the engagement agreement should be reviewed to confirm the contracting entity.[1]

What size transactions does Benchmark Business Group, LLC handle?

Benchmark’s official sold-business archive lists a Distribution business in Connecticut sold for $18,000,000, a Specialty business in Iowa sold for $20,000,000, and a Camping/Resorts business in Ohio sold for $12,300,000. It also lists an Accts. Rec. Mgmt. Firm in Arizona sold for $5,000,000 and an Agricultural Manufacturing business in Illinois sold for $2,030,000.[6]

The firm’s stated transaction model centers on confidential marketing to pre-qualified buyers, buyer negotiations, financing assistance, due diligence coordination, and closing support. For businesses listed with Benchmark, the seller has agreed to pay sale-related commissions or fees and no fees are charged to the buyer; a separate fee basis may apply when Benchmark is engaged to locate an unlisted business.[3][5]

Benchmark states that it specializes in the confidential sale and purchase of successful businesses throughout the United States. Its public business-for-sale materials reference Iowa, the Midwest, Arizona, the Southwest, and other U.S. locations; its contact information lists Des Moines, Iowa and Tucson, Arizona.[4]

What does Benchmark Business Group, LLC publicly disclose about fees and engagement terms?

Benchmark’s buyer page does not publish a universal seller commission percentage, minimum fee, tail period, termination schedule, or detailed engagement-fee schedule.

Benchmark’s sold-business archive does not state transaction dates, buyer identities, seller identities, financing terms, or consideration structure for the listed examples beyond the displayed sell-price figures.

Benchmark’s official contact page identifies the LLC and services but does not state a firm-level broker-dealer, investment-adviser, or securities registration status.[1][5][6]

The official website identifies the entity as Benchmark Business Group, LLC and lists contact locations in Des Moines, Iowa and Tucson, Arizona. Benchmark’s official contact page identifies the LLC and its services but does not state a firm-level broker-dealer, investment-adviser, or securities registration status.[1]

Benchmark describes a seller process involving an opinion of value, an exclusive listing agreement, confidential marketing, seller coaching, buyer negotiations, financing assistance, due diligence coordination, and closing support. Its buyer materials describe privately held businesses and nationally known franchises, with dozens of opportunities available to buyers. For the stated full-disclosure process, sellers provide three prior years of business tax returns, current-year profit and loss statements, asset and liability information, premises lease information, a fair and equitable purchase price, and buyer training.[3][5]

Questions to ask before hiring Benchmark Business Group, LLC

What are the commission percentage, minimum fee, reimbursable expenses, tail period, and termination rights?
Benchmark’s buyer page does not publish a universal seller commission percentage, minimum fee, tail period, termination schedule, or detailed engagement-fee schedule.[5]
Is the listing exclusive, and for how long?
Benchmark’s stated seller process includes an exclusive listing agreement. An owner should confirm its duration and termination terms.[3]
Which legal entity signs the engagement agreement?
The official website identifies Benchmark Business Group, LLC; the engagement agreement should be reviewed to confirm the contracting entity.[1]
What buyer qualification and proof-of-funds procedures are used?
Benchmark describes marketing to pre-qualified buyers, so an owner may wish to ask how buyer qualification and proof of funds are handled.[3]
How is the opinion of value prepared, and which valuation methods are applied?
The seller process includes an opinion of value, so an owner may wish to ask how it is prepared and which valuation methods are applied.[3]
How does financing assistance relate to the opinion of value?

Benchmark’s seller process includes both financing assistance and an opinion of value, so an owner may wish to ask how these services relate.[3]

Which comparable transactions has the firm completed in the seller's industry and geography?
The sold-business archive provides selected industries, locations, and displayed sell prices, while it does not state transaction dates, buyer identities, seller identities, financing terms, or consideration structure for the listed examples.[6]
What information is disclosed at each stage of the confidentiality process?
Benchmark describes confidential marketing and confidentiality, so an owner may wish to ask what information is disclosed at each stage.[3]

Sources & research notes

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  2. Services / capabilities
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  4. Geography / market coverage
  5. Transaction size / criteria
  6. Transaction / portfolio evidence
  7. Public Process
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