Do you want to buy a business or sell your business in the Retail sector? This Brookz Retail Sector Monitor can help you with that.

With this sector monitor we want to present (potential) buyers and sellers with facts and figures that provide insight into the number of transactions and value development of businesses in the retail sector. Because in any buying or selling process, thorough preparation provides peace of mind, overview and structure.

Download the 'Brookz Sector Monitor Retail' for relevant information on the sector, how the merger and acquisition market works, current valuations and real-life examples of other buyers who have bought a Retail business and sellers who have sold their Retail business:

Sector information

Retail includes businesses that supply physical goods for personal use to consumers. The retail landscape has changed significantly in recent years. One in six stores disappeared in the period 2010-2021, for example, in addition to the many fashion and shoe stores about half of the toy stores and a quarter of the electronics stores.

Takeover market

The buying and selling of Retail businesses is a lively market, although it largely takes place behind the scenes. The sector represents a relatively small share of the total number of mergers and acquisitions in the Netherlands. Less than five percent of all transactions take place in Retail.

Value development

Every party active in the takeover market wants to know the value of a company. With the Brookz Takeover Barometer we gauge the so-called multiples every six months. Looking at the past five years, the multiple for the Retail sector is always significantly lower than for SMEs.

Case study

Ewout Braggaar wanted to be an entrepreneur himself after more than twenty years of well-paid salaried employment in financial services. After a two-year search, he was finally able to take off his tie when he bought Run2Day. "The bookkeeping and automation were very tight; you rarely come across that in SMEs.