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We buy businesses
to keep them.

For owners who want what they built to outlast them.

Let's chat What to expect

Why we exist

A business can take thirty years to build, and one decision to end.

A business with no one to hand it to does not wait. The owner reaches the end of their working life, and the options are thin: keep going past the point they wanted to stop, sell to the first buyer along, or wind it down and let the name go quiet.

We buy to maintain. Not to strip and resell. The businesses we buy are ones we can picture still trading, still employing the same people, twenty years from now.

Our approach

You step back. The business carries on.

A sale to Acquity is meant to be the least disruptive thing that happens to your business this year.

  1. We start with a conversation

    No documents, no commitments. Just an honest talk about your business and what you want next. If it is not a fit, we say so.

  2. We learn the business

    How it earns, why customers stay, which people hold it together. Confidential throughout, and we speak to no one without your say so.

  3. We agree fair terms

    A straightforward offer with the transition shaped around you. Few conditions, no renegotiation at the finish line.

  4. We keep it

    The team stays, the name stays on the door. You set the pace: stay on and teach, or hand over the keys and go.

How it works, in full

First principle

People over profit

A business is not its machinery or its logo. It is a group of people who chose to build something together, and who have stayed. We buy with the team in mind first, because nothing we plan works without them.

Second principle

Systems over guesswork

We do not pretend to have the decades of instinct you have. What we bring is structure: clear reporting, sound process and steady judgement, so the business does not depend on one person having a good week.

30+

Years of combined operating experience we bring to a business we buy.

Six

Disciplines we work in: sales, marketing, operations, strategy, scaling and people.

20

The ownership horizon we buy on. We are not working to a five-year exit.

Our successions

Businesses we bought, and kept.

We name the businesses we can. Some owners ask us to stay quiet, and we always do.

Kestrel Industrial

Industrial maintenance and field services for heavy manufacturing.

Victoria, Australia

Brightwater Coatings

Manufacturer of protective coatings for agricultural and industrial use.

New South Wales, Australia

Lodestar Freight

Regional transport and warehousing for food and beverage producers.

Queensland, Australia
See our successions
A business is not machinery. It is a group of people who have chosen to build something together. Buy it with that in mind and it will outlast you.
AcquityOur view on what we are buying

The process

What it is like to sell to us.

Four steps, no theatre. Most of the work is ours.

What to expect, in full

A conversation

An hour, in confidence, with no obligation on either side. We listen more than we talk.

Getting to know the business

We look at the numbers and the people, with your accountant and lawyer involved from the start.

An offer that holds

We agree the terms and then stick to them. No coming back late to chip at the price.

A transition on your terms

You decide how long you stay and how you hand over. Then the business carries on.

If you are thinking about stepping back, start with a conversation.

Tell us about the business and what matters to you. Anything you share stays between us.

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