Whenever we undergo a dramatic economic change, there is a lot of movement of capital. In the past 10 years in franchising, we’ve seen a lot of outside investment capital (which I’ll refer to here as PE) move into brand acquisitions. Initially, and for the most part, this was done as one-off acquisitions. More recently, […]
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By Steve Mize of GCF Valuation One year later, and the small business acquisition market has changed significantly. COVID has created some complexities in small business valuation. For most, values have declined post COVID primarily due to lower revenues/cash flow. Two Questions to keep in mind: Has COVID impacted your business (positively or negatively), and […]
FRANdata tracks all franchise brands in the US and almost nothing gets us as excited as when we see new groundbreaking concepts entering franchising, and that includes international brands entering the US. This chart is an outcome of our quarterly New Concept Report. One of the data points we include in each quarterly report is […]
As the various pandemic-related government aid programs wind down (PPP, Restaurant Aid, Venue Operators Assistance, etc.), the SBA is expecting that borrowers will not be able to pay their loans and bank portfolios will not look as healthy as when they had the programs as support. In order to offset these impending defaults, the SBA […]