Find the business, and the funding for it
Business-for-sale listings across New Zealand and Australia, alongside private-equity activity. Set your criteria and get a structured brief on the deals that fit.
How it works
Describe it
A few sentences about the business and what it needs — plus a website if there is one. No forms to work through first.
What was typed
“A trades franchise network built on plumbing and electrical services, looking to fold in complementary residential-trades businesses that can be converted into franchise territories or bolt onto its existing member network.”
Read the brief
The description is turned into criteria: sector, size, where, what is on offer. Every one is shown to you to correct before anything is scored.
What it read
yours to correctScore the pool
Hard constraints filter the pool, then each survivor is scored against your brief and given a written reason — not a similarity number.
The pool, narrowing
hard filters first, then judgementWork the shortlist
Ranked by fit, with the reasoning. Shortlist, reject, and save the brief to be told when someone new fits it.
Start a buyer profile →Listings
ranked by fitWellington’s largest residential electrical services company (37 years, $5M revenue, $642K earnings, 7,000+ active clients) is exactly [the buyer]’s core electrical franchise business in a new region — a bullseye bolt-on or conversion into a member territory.
A 30-year Auckland maintenance plumbing business with recurring, diversified revenue and no owner-dependency is exactly the core service line [the buyer] operates — a straightforward fold-in as a member/franchise territory that instantly adds scaled recurring maintenance work to the network.
A systemised, minimal-owner-reliance plumbing business in the high-growth Queenstown/Wanaka market with consistent ~$300-360K earnings and a secured pipeline — directly matches [the buyer]’s core plumbing membership model and gives them a foothold in a fast-growing region.
Scored out of 100, not a percentage — 65+ is a strong fit.
Listings by sector in New Zealand
1,256 active listings · bar is volume, right-hand figure is the average asking price
Sector asking multiples in New Zealand
Median asking price ÷ disclosed earnings, by sector · each dot is one listing
| Sector | Spread · 0–4× | Earnings × |
|---|---|---|
| Food & Beverage | 2.1× | |
| Services | 1.8× | |
| Manufacturing | 2.5× | |
| Retail | 2.8× | |
| Construction & Trades | 2.2× | |
| Hospitality & Tourism | 3.2× | |
| Automotive | 1.8× | |
| Education & Training | 2.8× | |
| Cleaning | 2.3× | |
| Professional Services | 2.4× | |
| Healthcare | 2.6× | |
| Transport & Logistics | 2.2× |