Tag: Georgia Association of Business Brokers

ATLANTA, Ga., /eNewsChannels/ -- Nine members of the Georgia Association of Business Brokers (GABB) helped entrepreneurs buy and sell more than $40 million worth of small and medium businesses in 2012. 'The Georgia market for buying and selling businesses remains strong with a large number of buyers with the financial ability to make significant purchases,' said GABB's 2013 President Matt Slappey.

ATLANTA, Ga. /eNewsChannels/ -- Sales of Georgia businesses should be much stronger in 2012, predicts C. David Chambless, a top-selling broker and the incoming president of the GABB, the state's only professional association dedicated to buying and selling businesses.

ATLANTA, Ga. /eNewsChannels/ -- Despite the somewhat stagnant business economy in Georgia, six members of the Georgia Association of Business Brokers (GABB) helped entrepreneurs buy and sell more than $42 million worth of small businesses in 2011.

ATLANTA, Ga. /eNewsChannels/ -- In a difficult year for business transactions, 13 members of the Georgia Association of Business Brokers (GABB) helped enough business owners buy and sell $40 million worth of businesses to earn membership to the organization's prestigious Million Dollar Club for 2010.

ATLANTA, Ga. /eNewsChannels/ -- The Georgia Association of Business Brokers has elected Eric Gagnon of Atlanta, President of We Sell Restaurants as 2011 president of the state's only professional organization and Multiple Listing Service dedicated to buying and selling businesses and franchises.

ATLANTA, Ga. /eNewsChannels/ -- Selling a business is much easier when business owners have accurate and organized records, say two Georgia financial experts. They will discuss how due diligence can help or hinder a business sale during the Nov. 30, 2010 meeting of the Georgia Association of Business Brokers.

ATLANTA, Ga. /eNewsChannels/ -- The economy may be in the doghouse, but Georgia businesses that pamper pooches and caress kittens are doing well. Last year, top Georgia business broker Loren Marc Schmerler, of Bottom Line Management, Inc., helped owners sell two pet-centered businesses, and says such businesses are bucking the economic trend.

ATLANTA, Ga. /eNewsChannels/ -- Many skilled but unemployed workers have taken advantage of tax laws that enable them to use funds from retirement accounts to buy a new business, and the Georgia Association of Business Brokers (GABB) will hear an industry expert describe the process at their Oct. 26 meeting.

ATLANTA, Ga. -- Political and economic uncertainty are hampering small businesses in Georgia, says Patrick Gartland, a former official of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Small Business Administration, who will speak on Sept. 28 to the Georgia Association of Business Brokers.

ATLANTA, Ga. -- Business sellers can postpone paying thousands of dollars of taxes on the sale of their business if they use a special section of the U.S. tax code, according to Atlanta tax attorney Ricky Novak. Novak, president of Strategic 1031 Exchange Advisors, will describe the process for using 1031 exchanges at the July 27, 2010 meeting of the Georgia Association of Business Brokers (GABB).