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well-established specialty retailer serving both residential and commercial customers with a comprehensive selection of game room products, entertainment furnishings, and related accessories. With decades of successful operation, the business has earned a strong reputation for quality products, expert knowledge, and exceptional customer service. The company offers a wide range of products, including pool tables, shuffleboard tables, game tables, ping pong tables, bar furniture, seating, lighting, cues, and numerous accessories designed to furnish and enhance both home and commercial game rooms. Revenue is generated through retail sales, accessory sales, delivery, and professional installation services. A key differentiator is the company's highly profitable game room table service division, which specializes in the repair, restoration, moving, recovering, maintenance, and installation of pool tables and other game room equipment. This service segment provides a recurring revenue stream while creating opportunities for additional product and accessory sales. Serving homeowners, businesses, clubs, entertainment venues, and institutions, the business benefits from a loyal customer base and a long-standing presence in the marketplace. With multiple revenue sources, an established reputation, and significant growth potential, this opportunity offers a new owner the ability to acquire a respected and diversified business in the recreation and home entertainment industry.
A well-established marina business and real estate located in coastal New Jersey is available for acquisition. The business operates a full-service marina providing slip rentals, boat storage, repair services, boat sales, and fuel sales. 2024 Revenue: $11.79M and EBITDA of $2.4M (20% margin)
A well-established marina business and real estate located in coastal New Jersey is available for acquisition. The business operates a full-service marina providing slip rentals, boat storage, repair services, boat sales, and fuel sales.
National transaction benchmarks for entertainment and recreation business businesses.
Under $500K
$500K to $2M
Over $2M
A variety of factors can cause businesses to trade outside this range, including earnings quality, operational transferability, key-person risk, growth trajectory, and geography, so a listing priced above or below the typical multiple usually reflects real differences in the underlying business.
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Key diligence, valuation, financing, and transition considerations for buyers evaluating entertainment and recreation business acquisitions.
Courses, lanes, docks, and venues carry expensive, deferrable maintenance — a typical 18-hole course alone runs $400K–$900K a year in upkeep. Get the land and equipment assessed on their own.
Liquor, gaming, and entertainment licenses are often the most valuable and most fragile part of the deal and may not pass automatically.
Weather, tourism, and the economy swing this revenue hard; look at multiple years and the off-season carrying cost.
Memberships, slip rentals, and league play are durable; one-off events and bar nights are volatile. Price the recurring base differently.
Deferred course work, lane refurbishments, and dock repairs add up fast; budget the real plan, not the seller's.
Event pipelines, member rolls, and online reputation drive the calendar — know whether they survive a change of owner.
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