OUR JOURNEY
Sunbelt was founded by Ed Pendarvis in Charleston, South Carolina in 1978. Ed developed a highly successful business brokerage operation and began licensing business brokerage offices under the Sunbelt marks during the mid-1990s. Sunbelt has enjoyed tremendous success as a franchise system and has expanded to become the world’s largest business brokerage operation.
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Sunbelt Business Brokers sells more privately held businesses than any other brokerage franchise in the world. The expansive experience and knowledge of the Sunbelt network encompass the Main Street and Middle Market segments primarily, with select offices also specializing in Mergers and Acquisitions.
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Sunbelt Network Utah
Redefining the Way
The decision to sell your business is difficult. The decision to select your advisor should be easy. Integrity, deal experience, technical expertise, knowledge of capital markets, and marketing prowess are the attributes of an Impactful Business Broker
Building value and eventually selling to a great buyer should be a goal for most owners and business leaders. A "great buyer" in my eyes sees the value of the business that has been built and wants to take it to the next level. Sometimes the founder may choose to continue on and others choose to take some time to enjoy their wealth they created.
Dean Wiltse
Owner, Managing Broker
Sunbelt Network Utah
Our Journey So Far
2004
After Chief Executive Dean Wiltse joined the company in 2001, Greenfield re-engineered its business model of running Internet-based focus panels, drawn from a pool of more than 3 million members.
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As a privately held company, Greenfield Online navigated the rocky Internet landscape by saving market researchers money on more expensive phone surveys.
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Business picked up considerably in 2003 and 2004, as the national do-not-call registry chilled the telemarketing sector and sent the business onto the Web.
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Dean Wiltse, CEO said the boost from the last 18 months helped Greenfield generate the financial performance and outlook that Wall Street needed to see. "Wall Street understands this is an application that can change an industry. They liked our growth and profits," he added.
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Investors will likely remain hungry for dot-com IPOs in 2005, and now that Net stocks have returned in limited numbers, watch out for more telecom firms wading into the IPO market in 2005.
2004
After growing the business into a leading online market research platform with millions of users, Doug Dohring agreed to sell The Dohring Company's OpinionSurveys.com panel to Greenfield Online a NASDAQ-listed, led by Dean Wiltse