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00 · Looking for a target

The companies to acquire that match your criteria, before the listings.

Scouting starts from the public registers, keeps every company that matches your criteria, checks the most relevant ones and matches them against visible-market listings. Whom to approach is your call.

Your situation

Most SME sales never go through a listing. Marketplaces show a fraction of the stock, anonymous and dated; the owners who will sell in two years have published nothing yet.

The question to settle

Which companies deserve a direct approach? The succession signals are read in the registers, not in the listings: owner's age, changes of mandate, holding company, succession, filed accounts.

The deliverable

A scouting pack, in two pieces.

  • The interactive companion: every company in the perimeter, sortable and filterable, with the identity, the officer, the mandates, the filed accounts and the contacts found for the best-ranked ones. Two tabs: off-market, and the visible market, matched.
  • The PDF of the most relevant targets: up to fifteen sheets checked one by one, every finding with its source, and the questions to settle before the approach.

Delivered within 72 business hours of payment. The visible market is refreshed once, free of charge, within six months of delivery.

Initial radar · Joinery and fit-out, Loire-AtlantiqueSheet 3

A succession being prepared without a listing

Activity
Bespoke joinery and fit-out, workshops and installation, private and architect clientele. Founded in 1994.
Size
20 to 49 employees (INSEE band) · 2024 revenue €2.1M, net income €140k (public accounts)
Officer
President since inception, 68 years old in the register; no co-officer, no successor in the register
Succession signal
Personal holding company created in 2025, shares contributed; no visible family succession
Visible market
No listing matched in the area
Contacts found
Official website, phone number found on the site, officer's profile verified

Sources: trade register, BODACC notices, accounts filed for 2022 to 2024, official website.

To settle before the approach: is the holding company preparing a sale or a family transfer? Are the workshops leased or owned?

sheet 3 / 7 · excerpt
The interactive companion: list of the companies in the perimeter, reading filters, signal, officer, accounts and contact columns, names masked
Companion of a recent pack: names, towns and contact details masked, figures rounded. Interface in French. Listings for the same sale are grouped, hence a lower count than the listings found in the area.

What a recent pack holds.

1,250
companies in the perimeter, readable and filterable in the companion
187
sale listings in the area, matched to those companies or listed separately
7
sheets checked one by one, ready to approach

Pack delivered in September 2026 to an individual buyer, on a building trade within a 60 km radius. 3,000 companies collected at the outset, 17 checked one by one to keep these 7 sheets. The number of sheets depends on the perimeter.

What scouting is not.

  • Scouting flags, it does not recommend: the review of the available documents is what judges a company.
  • No introduction, no mandate: approaching the seller remains yours.
  • The deliverable is private: no name is shared with a third party, nor published.
  • The registers do not say everything: confidential accounts, unpublished share transfers. The pack flags it sheet by sheet.

Frequently asked questions

Scouting, in practice.