How to Find a Buyer for Your Small Business in France
More than 185,000 French small businesses (TPE) change hands each year, but tens of thousands more fail to find a buyer and close unnecessarily. This guide is written for owners who want to sell their business successfully: how to prepare 3 years in advance, which platforms (VentureDeal, Cession PME, France Cession) and intermediaries (CCI, notaire, expert-comptable) to use, how to protect confidentiality with NDAs, how the CCI values a small business, and how to evaluate MBO from employees and family succession as alternatives to a market sale.
# How to Find a Buyer for Your Small Business in France More than 185,000 French small businesses change hands each year, according to CCI and Bpifrance Création data. For every successful transfer, two or three businesses close their doors, not because they lacked value, but because the owner never found the right buyer, or more often, started looking too late. The French market for TPE (très petites entreprises, businesses with fewer than 10 employees) does not suffer from a shortage of demand. The buyers are out there: ex-corporate executives in career transition, sector employees, project-…