Hawaii Business Sales
Hawaii Business Sales provides seller representation, exit planning, valuation, value-enhancement consulting, business sales, buyer representation, and acquisition-search services. It states that it specializes in businesses with revenues ranging from $500,000 to $10+ million.
What stands out about Hawaii Business Sales
Hawaii Business Sales presents a seller-side process that can include valuation, confidential marketing, buyer qualification, negotiation, and closing management. It also assists buyers with identified-business acquisitions and proactive retained searches. Its Terms of Use identifies the business as an operating unit of Jansson Enterprises, LLC, and states that HBS is not a registered broker-dealer.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]
What does Hawaii Business Sales do?
Hawaii Business Sales is a Hawaii-focused business brokerage and exit-planning firm. Its Terms of Use identifies the business as an operating unit of Jansson Enterprises, LLC, a Hawaii limited liability company. Tom Caltrider is identified by Hawaii Business Sales as its Founder and Managing Director.
HBS states that it specializes in businesses with revenues ranging from $500,000 to $10+ million. Its homepage also states that it has successfully completed over 70 business sales and has operated since 2006; those are self-reported website metrics.[1][2][6][8]
Hawaii Business Sales publicly states that it provides seller representation, exit planning, business valuation, value-enhancement consulting, business sales, and buyer representation. Its buyer services include analyzing and acquiring an identified business and conducting proactive retained searches for acquisition targets.[3][4]
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.
What should a business owner evaluate before hiring Hawaii Business Sales?
Owners evaluating Hawaii Business Sales can clarify how the stated valuation and value-enhancement work would be applied to their business, how buyer qualification and confidentiality would be handled, and which engagement terms would govern the assignment. The public descriptions available for these services do not establish current fees, commission structures, expense reimbursements, valuation methodology, proof-of-funds procedures, process timelines, or dated transaction pricing. Owners may also wish to confirm the contracting legal entity and the scope of activities covered by HBS’s statement that it is not a registered broker-dealer.[1][3][6]
What are the current engagement fees, commission structure, minimum fees, and expense reimbursements
How does HBS determine valuation and normalize owner compensation
What size transactions does Hawaii Business Sales handle?
The official sold-business archive identifies Al West’s Maui Vans, Alii Dry Cleaners, Aloha Glass Recycling, Aloha Sheet Metal, Bocalino Bistro & Bar, Business Equipment Co., Can Clean Hawaii, Hike Maui, Island Geotechnical Eng., Minit Medical, Ohana Genetics, Pacific Energy, Paddlers’ Inn, Pure Image Pools, and Valley Isle Electric as businesses sold by Hawaii Business Sales.[7]
HBS describes services for owners pursuing business sales and exit plans, as well as buyer assistance for an identified business and proactive retained acquisition searches. Its stated seller process can include valuation, preparation of a confidential business profile, a detailed marketing plan, prospective-buyer qualification, negotiation of offers and deals, and management of the closing process.[3][4]
Hawaii Business Sales states that it works with businesses across sectors including retail, manufacturing, tourism, technology, construction, professional services, recreation, restaurants, wholesale, and services.
It states that it provides services to businesses located across Hawaii. Its sold-business archive identifies activity on Maui, Oahu, the Big Island, Molokai, and Lanai.[6][7]
What does Hawaii Business Sales publicly disclose about fees and engagement terms?
The official current portfolio page publicly identifies a Hawaii direct-mail marketer and a swimming-pool maintenance company but does not disclose asking prices, revenue, EBITDA or SDE, transaction values, buyer identities, or consideration terms on that page.
The official contact page states that a detailed Confidential Business Profile containing tax-return-based financial information and other important business details is sent after a completed NDA; the page does not publish those detailed financial materials directly.
The official Businesses Sold archive lists sold-business names and categories but does not disclose transaction dates, sale prices, buyer identities, or consideration terms on the archive page.[7][9][10]
Hawaii Business Sales’s Terms of Use identifies HBS as an operating unit of Jansson Enterprises, LLC, a Hawaii limited liability company. The same Terms of Use states that HBS is not a registered broker-dealer and does not itself sell or directly offer to sell securities. These are firm-level self-disclosures in HBS’s legal terms, not conclusions drawn from an individual regulatory record.[1]
For sellers, HBS states that its process can include valuation, value enhancement, preparation of a confidential business profile, marketing, prospective-buyer qualification, offer and deal negotiation, and closing management.
For exit planning, HBS states that a good exit plan should have a 2 to 5 year time horizon and may include valuation, value-enhancement recommendations, exit-options analysis, and personal and business action plans.[3][5]
Questions to ask before hiring Hawaii Business Sales
What are the current engagement fees, commission structure, minimum fees, and expense reimbursements?
Which transaction types and industries does HBS currently handle?
How does HBS determine valuation and normalize owner compensation?
What buyer-screening and proof-of-funds procedures are used?
How are confidentiality, employee communication, landlord consent, and customer concentration handled?
Can HBS provide dated, anonymized transaction examples with sale-price ranges and process timelines?
What legal entity will contract with the owner, and which securities-related activities does HBS state it does not undertake?
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