Who Are We?

Who Are The Retailers Business Brokers?
The Retailers Business Brokers (TRBB) formed to fill a market need identified by retailers when buying and selling a retail business. Retail businesses are highly specialized with many important and sometimes unique characteristics revolving around varied influences such as location, retail mix and competition (to mention a few). All of these factors need to be properly considered and managed to ensure the success of the business operation, including the aspect of its sale to a new owner. For these fundamental reasons and many others, the need for a specialized business brokerage is paramount when selling your business.

How Does It All Work?
As different as Retail Businesses are to those in other industries sectors, so too do specific retail categories have distinct points of difference (i.e. Convenience, Food, Pharmacy, News etc.).  The simple fact is that, generally, these are either not properly recognized or, completely ignored when selling a business.  How often do you see in the “Businesses For Sale” advertisements a Retail Business alongside a manufacturing business, alongside a wholesale business?

Retail is unique and diverse.  It requires long hours, specialized skills and a hands-on, proactive operational and investment strategy.  Similarly therefore, TRBB will ensure positive engagement and activity towards the process of marketing a business and securing the right purchaser. The brokers TRBB assigns to your business will have industry and category-specific knowledge, together with a proven track record of achieving results. The team at TRBB ensures that the broker assigned the sale of your business is followed up regularly with regard to progress and, you receive ongoing activity reports concerning status along the way to achieving your sale.  This leaves you free to continue maximizing the performance of you business (and the bottom line) there by also making it more appealing to prospective buyers.

Our Panel of Brokers
TRBB is constantly updating and re-aligning the panel of referral brokers, so a thorough cross-section of industry-specific specialists are available to service your retail category in your region of Australia.  These specialists will have expertise in the categories of Convenience / Supermarkets, Food Grocery, Food Takeaway, Retail Franchises, Pharmacies, Newsagents, Fashion, Gifts and General Merchandise.

TRBB screens each broker before making a recommendation to you in an endeavour to ensure that they do not have too many existing listings and do not have current conflicting listings whenever possible..  Also, to establish they do actually have relevant experience in valuing and marketing your type of business and, that they do have proven strategies to achieve results. We and the brokers we assign are driven by successful outcomes.

You - The Retailer
Naturally, a vital piece in this process is you and the success of your business and, most importantly, that it is prepared for sale.  Through our Business Information Statement and discussions with you, TRBB will advise and assist you in preparing your business for sale in such areas as:

• Asset Register
• Profit & Loss
• Trading Ledger
• Presentation
• Lease
• Marketing
• Comparable Sale Results

Our Appointment Fees & Costs & Commission
You pay an Initial Marketing Outlay cost which covers constructing and providing a copy of the Business Profile folder, listing on Real Commercial and newspaper advertising.  The outlay covers essential costs in preparing the Business Profile and listing the business for sale and is non-refundable if TRBB does not ultimately sell the business.  If further marketing costs or other specific costs are required for some purpose, these are  advised in writing first for your approval.