BUSINESS SALES • MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS • BUSINESS VALUATIONS
Experienced Guidance for Life's
Most Important Business Transactions
Selling or acquiring a privately held business is often one of the most significant financial decisions an owner or entrepreneur will make.
Murphy Business Sales – Southern Idaho provides confidential, experienced guidance through business sales, acquisitions, valuations, and ownership transitions—combining local market knowledge with the resources and reach of one of North America's established business brokerage organizations.
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Years Serving Business Owners
MURPHY BUSINESS SALES – SOUTHERN IDAHO
Local Knowledge.
National Reach. Experienced Guidance.
Business owners rarely sell companies. We help people do it every day.
Murphy Business Sales – Southern Idaho works with business owners, entrepreneurs, investors, and acquisition-minded companies throughout Southern Idaho.
Whether you are considering selling a company you have spent decades building, evaluating an acquisition, determining the value of a business, or simply beginning to think about your eventual exit, our role is to help you understand your options and make informed decisions.
Our Southern Idaho advisors combine extensive business and financial experience with local market knowledge and the systems, resources, buyer relationships, and professional network of Murphy Business Sales.
The objective isn't simply to complete a transaction. It is to help clients navigate the process thoughtfully, confidentially, and successfully.
THE RESOURCES OF MURPHY BUSINESS
WHAT WE DO
Core Services
Sell a Business
Protect What You've Built. Prepare for What's Next.
Selling a privately held business requires much more than finding a buyer.
We help owners understand value, prepare their companies for market, develop confidential marketing strategies, identify and qualify prospective buyers, negotiate transaction terms, coordinate due diligence, and manage the many moving pieces required to reach closing.
Our process centers around three priorities:
Confidentiality. Value. Execution.
Buy a Business
Find the Right Opportunity. Make a Better-Informed Acquisition.
Acquiring a business can create tremendous opportunity—but identifying the right company and successfully completing a transaction requires discipline.
Murphy Business professionals help buyers evaluate opportunities, understand valuation and deal structure, navigate negotiations and due diligence, coordinate financing resources, and move from initial interest through closing.
Business Valuation
Understand What Your Business Is Really Worth.
Nearly every important business transition begins with understanding value.
Murphy Business provides valuation services for owners considering a sale as well as businesses requiring valuation for planning, ownership transitions, financing, partner matters, and other purposes.
Available services can range from a Broker's Opinion of Value to more comprehensive valuation engagements depending upon the client's needs.
FOR BUSINESS OWNERS
Thinking About Selling Your Business?
You don't need to be ready to sell tomorrow to begin planning today. For many owners, the best first step is understanding three things:
What might my business be worth?
What would make it more attractive to buyers?
What does the sale process actually look like?
A confidential conversation with an experienced business intermediary can help answer those questions before an owner makes any commitments.
Whether the anticipated timeline is six months or several years, understanding the options earlier can lead to better decisions later.
No obligation. All discussions are held in confidence.
The Murphy Advantage
Local Advisors Backed by a National Organization
Selling a business requires local knowledge—but the eventual buyer may come from across Idaho or across the country.
Murphy Business Sales combines locally based professionals with the systems, experience, professional relationships, and reach of a major North American business brokerage organization.
Local Market Knowledge
Advisors familiar with Southern Idaho businesses, industries, communities, and market dynamics.
Confidential Marketing
Processes designed to expose opportunities to qualified buyers while protecting the identity & ongoing operations of the business.
Professional Valuation
A disciplined approach to understanding business value and establishing realistic market expectations.
Broad Buyer Reach
Murphy Business resources and professional relationships extending well beyond the local market.
A DISCIPLINED APPROACH
From Initial Conversation to
Successful Closing
Step 1
Understand
Learn about the business, owner's objectives, timing, and priorities.
Step 2
Value
Analyze the business and establish an informed understanding of market value.
Step 3
Prepare
Organize the information and positioning required to professionally present the business.
Step 4
Market & Negotiate
Confidentially market the opportunity, screen prospective buyers, evaluate offers, and negotiate terms.
Step 5
Close
Coordinate due diligence, financing, professional advisors, documentation, and the many details required to move toward closing.
SERVING SOUTHERN IDAHO
Business Brokerage Expertise Across Southern Idaho
Murphy Business Sales – Southern Idaho serves privately held businesses and entrepreneurs throughout the region, including:
Ketchum • Sun Valley • Hailey • Bellevue • Twin Falls • Idaho Falls • Pocatello • Rexburg • Mountain Home • Burley • Rupert • Jerome • Gooding • Buhl • Blackfoot • Carey • Fairfield • Wendell and surrounding communities.
Clients receive local representation backed by the broader reach of Murphy Business. This combination can be particularly valuable when marketing established Idaho businesses to qualified buyers originating outside the immediate market.
YOUR SOUTHERN IDAHO ADVISORS
Business Experience Behind the Advice.
Selling a business is both a financial transaction and a significant personal transition.
Our role is to understand the business, the owner's objectives, and what a successful outcome actually means—and then provide experienced guidance throughout the transaction.
Clients work directly with experienced local advisors while benefiting from the broader resources of Murphy Business Sales.
Neil Bradshaw, MBA, MS
Franchise Owner | Business Broker
Neil Bradshaw brings more than 25 years of business and financial experience spanning investment banking, project finance, equity analysis, business development, and brand marketing.
Before joining Murphy Business, Neil was part-owner of an outdoor consumer-goods company, where he managed business development and international sales through the company's successful sale to Newell Brands. That experience gives him firsthand perspective as a business owner navigating an eventual exit.
Earlier in his career, Neil headed J.P. Morgan's Global Utilities Equity Research in London and served as a director with Fieldstone Private Capital Group, where his work included financing and developing electricity and gas projects from offices in New York, Kuala Lumpur, and Johannesburg.
Neil began his career as a financial analyst specializing in power-project transactions. He holds a Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacture and Management from Birmingham University in the UK and earned an MBA while on scholarship at the University of Kansas. He is also a licensed Idaho real estate agent.
Neil has lived in Idaho for more than a decade and is active in his local community, including supporting and mentoring entrepreneurs.
Darrell "Gus" Gustaveson
Business Intermediary
Gus Gustaveson brings more than 30 years of leadership and financial experience across banking, manufacturing, consulting, and finance to his work with business owners and buyers.
His background includes serving as a principal and executive in multiple business sales and acquisitions, spanning Main Street businesses through larger M&A transactions. That firsthand experience provides Gus with an owner's and executive's perspective on the financial, operational, and personal considerations involved in buying or selling a privately held company.
His experience as a CFO provides insight into the financial drivers influencing enterprise value and how owners can better position businesses for transition. His commercial lending background also provides valuable perspective on acquisition financing and the factors affecting whether a transaction can be financed.
Combined with extensive sales and negotiation experience, Gus brings complementary skills to valuation, preparation, negotiation, due diligence, financing, and closing.
Gus and his wife, Terri, live in Star, Idaho. They have seven children and 11 grandchildren and enjoy traveling, golfing, and fishing.
Why Clients Work With Us
A Relationship Built Around Your Objectives
Good business brokerage begins with listening.
Before discussing marketing, buyers, valuation, or transaction structure, we want to understand the business an owner has built and what a successful outcome means to that owner.
Maximizing value.
Protecting employees.
Preserving a company's legacy.
Finding the right successor.
Creating financial independence.
Or simply determining whether now is the right time to sell.
Confidentiality
Protect the business, employees, customers, suppliers, and ongoing operations while qualified buyers are identified.
Disciplined Execution
Manage the moving pieces from preparation and buyer qualification through negotiations, due diligence, financing, and closing.
Straightforward Advice
Provide realistic guidance regarding valuation, market conditions, buyer expectations, transaction structure, and challenges.
Personal Representation
Clients work with local advisors who understand the business and remain directly involved.
For most owners, selling a business is not simply another transaction.
It is the culmination of years—sometimes decades—of work.
We believe the advisory process should reflect the significance of that decision.
THE RESOURCES OF MURPHY BUSINESS
One Local Relationship.
A Much Larger Network.
Murphy Business Sales is an established North American business brokerage and transaction advisory organization with professionals serving markets throughout the United States and Canada.
For Southern Idaho clients, that means local representation supported by broader resources, transaction experience, buyer relationships, marketing capabilities, and professional expertise.
Your Next Chapter Starts With a Conversation.
Whether you are actively considering a transaction or simply want to better understand your options, we welcome the opportunity to learn about your business and your objectives.
The conversation is confidential. There is no obligation.
Murphy Business Sales – Southern Idaho
151 4th Street W., #6215 Ketchum, Idaho 83340
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208-721-2162
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