Pat Grandle, Broker, Completes First Sale at Chicagoland Sunbelt
Grandle’s first sale was a pet grooming business in the northern suburbs of Chicago. Pet grooming and boarding accounts for $3.51 billion of revenue in the overall $48 billion pet industry market in the United States in 2010.
Chicago, IL, May 14, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Pat Grandle, Broker at Chicagoland Sunbelt, (www.chicagolandsunbelt.com) recently completed the sale of a dog and cat groomer located in the Chicagoland area. Pat Grandle’s first deal was remarkable in that there were only two showings of the business to prospective buyers, one of whom made an offer in days. The pet groomer offered for sale had a twenty year plus history in the community. It had a stellar reputation with customers and the community. Great reviews on sites such as Yelp, Yellow Pages, Google, Yahoo, etc., signaled to buyers that there was a brand name valued by the community.
Grandle stated “Buyers are wary of what brokers present. One of the great upsides of sites such as Facebook and Yelp is that if the feedback is positive from the community, it is like having a third party endorsement of the business. It was a rewarding experience to see my seller get good value for all the hard work they had put into the business over the years.”
Pat Grandle joined Chicagoland Sunbelt in the fall of 2010. Her background is in automotive parts manufacturing. She had worked for this business, founded and run by her family, in sales and marketing roles for nearly twenty years. Grandle has focused both on manufacturing and distribution but has also taken a strong interest in Main Street businesses. The pet grooming business was part of this focus.
“I am very interested in both representing industrial businesses and Main Street boutiques, restaurants, and the like. I am very active in my local chamber, the Downers Grove Chamber of Commerce, http://www.downersgrove.org/, and see how Main Street businesses are the backbone of any community,” said Grandle.
Using data from Biz-Buy-Sell’s Quarterly Insight Reports on business sales activity in the Chicagoland market, retail businesses for sale consistently account for 20 to 25% of the market of businesses for sale. The traditional, Main Street seller is still a significant part of the “businesses for sale” marketplace.
“This is where brokers make all the difference when it is time for someone to the sell the business. The broker is the seller’s advocate and expert. We keep it confidential, we market it to a wide audience of buyers, and we work diligently to get sellers the best deal we can,” commented Domenic Rinaldi, Managing Director, of Chicagoland Sunbelt.
About Pat Grandle
Pat Grandle brings to Sunbelt a wealth of knowledge and expertise related to small and medium- size companies. Over the past two decades, she has held several sales, marketing and leadership positions and managed several disciplines at a vice presidential and ownership level. This was at a highly successful, family-owned manufacturing company in the mid-west primarily serving the automotive marketplace. Grandle spent her entire professional career at this company until it closed in 2009. This experience has allowed her the ability to build relationships with high-level personnel and close large deals in heavily competitive environments.
Grajndle has extensive professional, corporate, and sales experience with a specialty in marketing. She first demonstrated her career strengths and critical thinking skills when she obtained a degree in business management and a minor in psychology.
Pat has served as a member of several associations including the American Marketing Association (AMA) and Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE). She was Chair of the Society of Automotive Engineers International Trade Show Committee for two years.
Read more about her here:
http://www.chicagolandsunbelt.com/teamGrandle.htm
About Domenic Rinaldi
Domenic Rinaldi is the President and Managing Partner of Sunbelt Chicago. He was awarded the professional designation of Certified Business Intermediary, (CBI), from the International Business Brokers Association and is considered an expert in the field of business brokerage. He is a seasoned executive who brings over 24 years of proven experience in mergers and acquisitions, sales, service, marketing and operations to the business brokerage arena.
Domenic’s career began at Sprint Corp, where he spent 13 years in sales and operations. As VP of their Hospitality Division he led a national organization to $250 million in annual revenue. His experience as Chief Operating Officer of an e-commerce travel company offered the opportunity to grow a Silicon Valley startup into an international solutions provider. Additionally, Domenic’s small business experience running a New York City technology company gave him firsthand knowledge of the challenges facing business owners. It was at this privately held company he learned the business of raising venture capital and driving a small company to profitability, which ultimately resulted in an acquisition.
The business press frequently turns to Rinaldi as a subject matter expert in small and lower middle market transactions in Chicago. Most recently he was featured in Crain’s Chicago Business: http://www.chicagolandsunbelt.com/Chicago-Mergers-and-Acquisitions-Market-Crains-Video.htm
Read more about Chicagoland Sunbelt here:
http://www.chicagolandsunbelt.com/careers.htm
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Grandle stated “Buyers are wary of what brokers present. One of the great upsides of sites such as Facebook and Yelp is that if the feedback is positive from the community, it is like having a third party endorsement of the business. It was a rewarding experience to see my seller get good value for all the hard work they had put into the business over the years.”
Pat Grandle joined Chicagoland Sunbelt in the fall of 2010. Her background is in automotive parts manufacturing. She had worked for this business, founded and run by her family, in sales and marketing roles for nearly twenty years. Grandle has focused both on manufacturing and distribution but has also taken a strong interest in Main Street businesses. The pet grooming business was part of this focus.
“I am very interested in both representing industrial businesses and Main Street boutiques, restaurants, and the like. I am very active in my local chamber, the Downers Grove Chamber of Commerce, http://www.downersgrove.org/, and see how Main Street businesses are the backbone of any community,” said Grandle.
Using data from Biz-Buy-Sell’s Quarterly Insight Reports on business sales activity in the Chicagoland market, retail businesses for sale consistently account for 20 to 25% of the market of businesses for sale. The traditional, Main Street seller is still a significant part of the “businesses for sale” marketplace.
“This is where brokers make all the difference when it is time for someone to the sell the business. The broker is the seller’s advocate and expert. We keep it confidential, we market it to a wide audience of buyers, and we work diligently to get sellers the best deal we can,” commented Domenic Rinaldi, Managing Director, of Chicagoland Sunbelt.
About Pat Grandle
Pat Grandle brings to Sunbelt a wealth of knowledge and expertise related to small and medium- size companies. Over the past two decades, she has held several sales, marketing and leadership positions and managed several disciplines at a vice presidential and ownership level. This was at a highly successful, family-owned manufacturing company in the mid-west primarily serving the automotive marketplace. Grandle spent her entire professional career at this company until it closed in 2009. This experience has allowed her the ability to build relationships with high-level personnel and close large deals in heavily competitive environments.
Grajndle has extensive professional, corporate, and sales experience with a specialty in marketing. She first demonstrated her career strengths and critical thinking skills when she obtained a degree in business management and a minor in psychology.
Pat has served as a member of several associations including the American Marketing Association (AMA) and Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE). She was Chair of the Society of Automotive Engineers International Trade Show Committee for two years.
Read more about her here:
http://www.chicagolandsunbelt.com/teamGrandle.htm
About Domenic Rinaldi
Domenic Rinaldi is the President and Managing Partner of Sunbelt Chicago. He was awarded the professional designation of Certified Business Intermediary, (CBI), from the International Business Brokers Association and is considered an expert in the field of business brokerage. He is a seasoned executive who brings over 24 years of proven experience in mergers and acquisitions, sales, service, marketing and operations to the business brokerage arena.
Domenic’s career began at Sprint Corp, where he spent 13 years in sales and operations. As VP of their Hospitality Division he led a national organization to $250 million in annual revenue. His experience as Chief Operating Officer of an e-commerce travel company offered the opportunity to grow a Silicon Valley startup into an international solutions provider. Additionally, Domenic’s small business experience running a New York City technology company gave him firsthand knowledge of the challenges facing business owners. It was at this privately held company he learned the business of raising venture capital and driving a small company to profitability, which ultimately resulted in an acquisition.
The business press frequently turns to Rinaldi as a subject matter expert in small and lower middle market transactions in Chicago. Most recently he was featured in Crain’s Chicago Business: http://www.chicagolandsunbelt.com/Chicago-Mergers-and-Acquisitions-Market-Crains-Video.htm
Read more about Chicagoland Sunbelt here:
http://www.chicagolandsunbelt.com/careers.htm
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