Dave Raleigh

First Choice Business Brokers - West Charlotte

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1213 West Morehead Street, 5Th Floor #4113
Charlotte, North Carolina 28208 (View Map)

About the Company

First Choice Business Brokers is one of the largest business sales organizations in the U.S., listing over $12.5 Billion in businesses for sale since our founding in 1994. We assist business owners by locating and matching them with the right buyer. Additionally, we also work with business buyers to find the right business that meets their purchase criteria. With over 100 offices located throughout the U.S., we have sold thousands of businesses, of all types, confidentially and efficiently through our vast buyer networks.

Broker Biography

Introduction

Dave has nearly 25 years of experience in service-based businesses. Growing up in a small business family he spent his summer vacations working with his father and brother in their Auto Body business, Raleigh's Auto Body. It's here that Dave feels like he learned the most about the core principles of integrity, commitment, and effort that he applied in his service career. In the years following, he worked in the service based business for organizations like TruGreen, Safety-Kleen, and most recently Wind River Environmental, providing general leadership in business units from $5M to $100M of which a core component was acquisition and integration. After building a good career and a beautiful family with his wife Lauren, and two children (Jack and Waylon), Dave looks forward to putting his experience all together to help people with their goals to exit or acquire regardless of the size of their transaction with the same level of detail as his beginnings.

Services Provided

Business Evaluation: Do you know what your business is worth in today’s market? We can help you with that at no cost to you until the sale of the business is complete.

Confidentiality: We take pride in closing the entire transaction without your customers’, employees’, suppliers’, or competitors’ knowledge.

Highest Professional Quality of Service: Our time-tested procedures and transaction documents ensure a smooth and efficient sale, while protecting your interests.

Significant Market Exposure: Our proven marketing techniques and extensive local, national, and international advertising exposes your business to thousands of buyers.

Qualified Buyers: You benefit from genuine inquiries only, as we pre-qualify buyers.

Areas Served

  • Caldwell County, NC
  • Catawba County, NC
  • Cleveland County, NC
  • Gaston County, NC
  • Lincoln County, NC
  • Mecklenburg County, NC
  • Rutherford County, NC
  • Professional Affiliations

    BSBA - Regent University
    Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
    Certified Hazardous Materials Manager - IHMM
    CVBBA Member
    IBBA Member

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