The great boomer business sell-off: M&A outlook 2024

The great boomer business sell-off: M&A outlook 2024
New Zealand pet food business owners have been among those to secure multimillion-dollar exit strategies over the past year. (Image: NZME)
Rebecca Stevenson
Baby boomers are back in the business of selling the business. PricewaterhouseCoopers' (PwC) corporate finance leader, Regan Hoult, said the firm’s mergers and acquisitions team (M&A) has seen an uptick in inquiries since the final quarter of 2023 from family-owned or boomer business owners looking to exit their successful firms. He said the boomer sell-off has been long expected and discussed, but now it is picking up steam.According to him, many fantastic family-owned businesses fly under the radar. In 2023,...

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