Snell Manufacturing

Becoming a
Snell Manufacturing
Company

WE ACQUIRE HYPER-LOCAL, DEFENSIBLE ASSETS THAT HAVE BEATEN THE ECONOMIC ODDS FOR DECADES.

Our philosophy is that certain small businesses are not subject to small business risk. In fact, their small size and restricted scope is their strength, decade after decade. We seek to acquire small, but mighty businesses where the owner’s age or life situation threaten the business’s long-term viability, and where the loss of such a business would affect more than direct livelihoods. We look for businesses where, if they were lost, the entire community would sorely miss it.

Our acquisitions are done quietly and respectfully. The Snell Ventures team will come in as active management partners with the current owner and, over an extended period of time, slowly phase the owner into an advisory role while learning the business from the inside out. We will mirror the owner’s management and operational style while ensuring the business is financially sound to continue into the future.

GENERAL INVESTMENT CRITERIA

  • 15+ years of business history.
  • Defensible business model in stable to growing industry(s).
  • Owner must be looking to retire or exit and have no solidified succession plan.
  • Owner must be willing to “phase out” financially and operationally.
  • Owner must have generally similar ethical and mission priorities to the Snell Ventures team.
  • Business must have very little or no long-standing enterprise debt and be free of any claims by the Owner’s family.
  • Business must have or want to have active local community engagement activities.
  • Shows some manner of resiliency through any previous recessions or economic downturns.