Overview
This Sports Memorabilia business has been operating for more than 30 years. The founding owners and operators have grown this Business from a sports card trading business to a multi-million-dollar wholesale, retail sports memorabilia business that offers additional products and services such as private autograph signings, collectibles, and novelties.
This authentic sports memorabilia and autograph business offers a full line of hand-signed memorabilia, sports novelties, authentic merchandise, and other hand-signed collectibles covering most major sports and athletes within the United States. The autograph portion of the Business strictly sells products which are generated through private signings. All product suppliers are US Companies that produce most of their products in the states. Currently the Business only offers its products and services domestically.
Opportunities For
This Business presents a great opportunity for strategic groups that offer similar products and would like to expand their customer base, vendor relationships, product lines, and increase their market share. This Business presents opportunity for an individual or family who has the passion for the collectibles memorabilia industry and sports as a whole. The Business generates strong revenue and cashflows. The industry is leaning towards a strong online presence which could help expand the business in various directions by adding international markets, sports, players, and products to increase sales and cash flow.
Real Estate
The Business’s corporate office warehouse can be leased from the owners of the Business at favorable terms. The above cash flow has been reduced to accommodate all cost associated with leasing the corporate office and warehouse. The Land and Building can be purchased in addition to the sale of the business. There is a long-term tenant that occupies a portion of the commercial real estate space that generates additional revenue for the owners of the business. The purchase price of the business does not include the Land & Building. The Land and Building are being offered at $700,000.
Christian is a Partner at Viking Mergers & Acquisitions. His experience at Viking includes facilitating transactions from initial exit strategy discussions to post closing operations. He has facilitated transactions across various industries throughout the lower and middle market. Christian is dedicated to working with owners of privately-held businesses to further enhance their full cycle business operations and develop their financial progress, which increases market value and provides for a more lucrative exit strategy.
Early in his career, Christian gained foundational experience working alongside the finance team of a privately held company during its acquisition by a publicly traded Fortune 100 organization. Through this transition, he developed firsthand insight into large-scale corporate operations, regulatory compliance (including SOCS), international contracting, and complex pricing and purchasing structures. He later advanced into a management role with a leading privately held accounting and finance staffing firm, where he partnered with executive leadership to mitigate risk, negotiate agreements, manage labor costs, oversee payroll and workers’ compensation, and support workforce strategies across small and mid-sized businesses.
Through these experiences, Christian developed a clear understanding of how operational cost controls and financial transparency directly impact earnings and ultimately long-term market value, clarity to make solid decisions resulted in positive impacts for each business’s earnings and ultimately their enterprise value. This insight originally led Christian into his role as a Senior Advisor at Viking and now into his advancement as a Partner.
Christian is a dual degree graduate from Florida State University, earning Bachelor of Science Degrees in Finance and Real Estate, and he holds a commercial real estate license.
