Listing Details:

• Business Category:             Business Services
• Price:                                                  $275,000
• Gross Revenue:                      $578,732
• SDE:                                      $111,610
  
• Seller Financing:                  $50,000, First year Rent Free
• Location:                               Minneapolis Suburbs
• Support & Training:              4 Weeks
  
• Reason for Selling:              Retirement
  
• Non Compete:                       500 Miles for 5 Years
  

Business Description

This is an established recognition and communications consultancy that helps organizations strengthen relationships with clients, employees, boards, and strategic partners. Rather than selling from a product catalog, the business works as a strategic partner: it learns each client's brand and goals, then designs and manages recognition programs and one-off recognition moments.

Most revenue comes from monthly and quarterly programs (onboarding, retention, service recognition, milestones), plus personalized recognition and event-driven campaigns. In-house design and fulfillment set the business apart from typical branded-merchandise and incentive vendors. A loyal, long-tenured client base of regional and national brands has stayed with the firm for years.

Business History

Founded in 1989, the business has operated for 38 years, evolving from a personalized-gift studio into a strategy-led recognition practice. The owner developed a consulting approach that differentiates the firm from product-only competitors and built long-term, high-value client relationships.

Growth Potential

The business is well suited to a strategic or complementary buyer who can fold it into an existing operation and unlock margin by sharing space and staff.

A new owner with industry experience can step in with minimal transition; an outside buyer will benefit from training and support. Good fits include strategic buyers in employee engagement or corporate recognition, promotional products distributors adding consulting services, marketing/branding agencies, HR/employee-experience firms, event companies, and entrepreneurs seeking a recurring-revenue service business.

Facilities

Approximately 4,000 sq ft of office, warehouse, and packaging space in an owner-occupied building. Offered with or without the real estate.

Services Offered

Strategy and consulting on client and employee recognition; design and management of recurring programs (onboarding, retention, service recognition, milestones); personalized recognition; event and campaign work; full in-house fulfillment and giftable-grade packaging.

Products Offered

A broad range of branded and personalized merchandise curated to each program — hard goods (home, auto, office) and soft goods (apparel), including fully custom recognition pieces. Products serve program strategy rather than a fixed catalog.

Type of Ownership

This is a single-owner LLC that runs two DBAs. A strategy consulting brand and a merchandise brand both filed under the same tax ID, giving the buyer one legal entity with two established revenue streams.

Relocatable or Home Based

Potentially relocatable. The business operates from an owner-occupied building and can be moved by a buyer with suitable office, warehouse, and packaging space, or absorbed into an existing operation. A buyer who outsources packaging could continue as a home-based business.