Charlotte Digital Printing & Packaging Manufacturer, 1950 North Carolina Business

$4.0M

Revenue

$990K

SDE

3.5x

Multiple

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This once in a lifetime opportunity just outside of the Charlotte are offers top-of-the-line digital printing and packaging services with very diversified customer base.... Businesses Franchises Brokers Loading... Well Established Highly Profitable Printing & Packaging Company Charlotte, NC (Mecklenburg County) (Relocatable) Asking Price:$3,500,000 Cash Flow (SDE):$990,000 EBITDA:$716,406 Gross Revenue:$3,971,408 Real Estate:$2,400,000* Established:1950 *not included in asking price. Well Established Highly Profitable Printing & Packaging Company Business Description Very Profitable Printing & Packaging business located in beautiful area of North This once in a lifetime opportunity just outside of the Charlotte are offers top-of-the-line digital printing and packaging services with very diversified customer base. Ad#:2534015 Detailed Information Inventory: $150,000Not included in asking price Furniture, Fixtures, & Equipment (FF&E): $700,000 Included in asking price Employees: 18 Full-time Facilities: Very nice facility with tons of acreage for expansion. There is front office space, and the building is segmented into 3 different parts with several loading bays. All equipment except for one piece is paid off and in very good condition. Competition: Very large and diversified customer base Growth & Expansion: Customers are open to additional services that aren't currently offered such as textiles, mailing, and an opportunity to tap into a signage market. Financing: The sellers are not willing to do Seller Financing. 7a & 504 loan eligible Support & Training: Sellers are willing to stay on for a transition period Reason for Selling: Retirement Business Location Location: Charlotte, NC Real Estate: Owned Not included in asking price Building SF: 30,000 Financial Benchmarks for North Carolina Paper Manufacturers and Printing Businesses Gross Revenue Benchmarks Cash Flow (SDE) Benchmarks EBITDA Benchmarks BizBuySell EDGE Demographic Information for Charlotte Area Household Income Population Age Population Trend Population by Race/Ethnicity BizBuySell EDGE Listing Statistics Saved This Listing Listing Last Updated Appeared in Search Listing Detail Views BizBuySell EDGE Know the True Market Value Before You Make an Offer Get valuation data to negotiate with confidence. 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Why we like it

Earnings quality is genuinely strong for the category, with $990k SDE and $716k EBITDA on $3.97M revenue, roughly 25% SDE margin and 18% EBITDA margin. Printing businesses often run thin, so these margins signal either efficient operations or a favorable packaging mix that commands better pricing.
Durability comes from 75 years of continuous operation and an explicitly diversified customer base, which limits single-customer concentration risk. A business that survived the digital disruption of print since 1950 has proven it can adapt, and the packaging component is a structurally healthier segment than pure commercial print.
Market tailwinds favor the packaging side of the business, driven by e-commerce shipping demand and label/carton needs that persist regardless of the economy. The listing flags open customer demand for adjacent services like textiles, mailing, and signage, meaning organic upsell exists inside the existing book.
The operator advantage here is clean: paid-off equipment (all but one piece), a large facility with expansion acreage, and a retiring seller willing to transition. A buyer inherits capacity to grow without near-term capex and can pursue the untapped signage and textile lines the current owner never built out.

How to improve it

Launch the adjacent service lines the listing already flags as customer-requested: textiles, mailing services, and signage. These are warm demand signals from existing accounts, so the customer acquisition cost is near zero and you are simply capturing wallet share you are currently leaving on the table.
Segment revenue between commercial print and packaging in the first 30 days to understand the real growth engine. Packaging deserves reinvestment and print may be a managed-decline cash cow, and pricing, sales focus, and capex should follow that split rather than treating the business as one undifferentiated shop.
Institute a formal reorder and account management cadence for the diversified customer base. Printing and packaging are repeat-purchase businesses, and a simple CRM-driven reorder prompt plus quarterly account reviews can lift retention and per-customer volume without adding equipment.
Review pricing across the customer book, since a 75-year business run by a retiring owner has almost certainly under-raised prices on legacy accounts. Even a 3 to 5 percent selective increase on price-insensitive customers flows nearly entirely to EBITDA.
Evaluate the one remaining financed piece of equipment and overall equipment utilization to identify capacity headroom. With most gear paid off and acreage to expand, the highest-return move may be adding a shift or a single new press line rather than a facility build.
Negotiate the real estate carefully: either buy it via the 504 program at a favorable blended rate or lock a long-term lease at market. Do not overpay $2.4M for the building without an appraisal, and structure the lease so occupancy cost does not quietly consume the SDE you just bought.

Diligence notes

Verify the customer diversification claim with a concentration analysis: pull revenue by customer for the last three years and confirm no single account exceeds 10 to 15 percent. The listing repeats 'diversified' but provides zero supporting detail, and print businesses frequently hide one or two dominant accounts.
Break out the revenue mix between declining commercial print and growing packaging. This split determines whether you are buying a growth story or a slow-melting ice cube, and it directly drives what multiple is defensible.
Reconcile the $990k SDE against the $716k EBITDA and scrutinize the addbacks. The $274k gap is owner comp and discretionary items, so confirm what a replacement manager actually costs given the seller is retiring and there may be no bench.
Inspect the equipment condition, age, and the terms on the one financed piece. FF&E is valued at $700k and 'good condition,' but printing gear is capital intensive and you need a realistic replacement-cost timeline so a big capex surprise does not hit in year two.
Clarify the real estate decision before closing, since the $2.4M building is excluded and the business is marked relocatable. Model both scenarios (504 purchase versus lease) and confirm any lease with the retiring owner is at true market rent, not a below-market rate that resets after the transition.

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