Retiring owners selling trades businesses to entrepreneur buyers

Commentary that many trades business owners are retiring and selling their businesses, with entrepreneurs increasingly buying them; the trades are seen as attractive acquisition targets because they are recession resilient.

“There's a lot of people that own these businesses that are retiring and offloading their businesses and often selling them and people taking those over.”

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