Practice
For owner-led industrial companies growing by acquisition: precision manufacturing, engineered products, and wholesale distribution.
Talk to Joe →Joe Surber spent decades inside Fortune 50 industrial corporate development, building acquisition theses, sourcing targets, structuring deals, arranging capital, and integrating what was bought. BluGrowth brings that same discipline to owner-led manufacturers and distributors, as a retained function rather than a transaction shop.
The work is the same Find. Fund. Finished. model we run for every client: one team from the thesis to the integration. How the engagement works →
Current buyers we represent. If you own, know, or broker a fit, start a confidential conversation. We do not co-broke.
Central NC / Charlotte area
CNC capability and customer diversification valued over size. ISO-certified shops a plus.
View mandate →Within an hour of Charlotte
Forklift service is the lead example; generators, compressors, cranes, dock equipment, and industrial doors all qualify. Renewing service contracts, a parts counter, and technicians in vans matter more than the machine. Asset-heavy is fine. The buyer is an operator who built a manufacturer through four acquisitions and runs what they buy.
View mandate →Nationwide, South and Southeast preferred
Independent sponsor, twenty years operating in flow control, committed capital in place. A platform, not a tuck-in: best fit is an owner-led company with a product roadmap that has outrun the budget.
View mandate →Nationwide, South and Southeast preferred
Independent sponsor with committed capital. Customer concentration is fine: the plan is to invest in sales engineering so a shop with more capability than customers can serve more of them.
View mandate →Owner-led industrial companies buying other companies: precision machining and fabrication, engineered components, flow control, and wholesale distribution. Most deals sit between $2M and $20M of enterprise value.
Not always. In precision manufacturing a large share of volume from one customer is common and is often why good shops go unsold. The question is whether the relationship belongs to the company or to the owner, and how the deal is structured around it.
Yes. For fiscal 2026 SBA waived fees on certain loans to qualifying small manufacturers, which can lower the cost of the capital stack. See our guide to the SBA manufacturing fee waiver for how it applies to an acquisition.
