01 · Searching for a target

Find the business that fits your project.

Diligeo identifies French SMEs for sale that match your acquisition criteria and hands you a qualified shortlist, with descriptions and contacts. You spend your time on meetings, not on sorting.

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Your situation

You know what you're looking for: a sector, a territory, a size range. But public listings are scarce, inconsistent, often out of date, and the best sales aren't always advertised.

The question to settle

Which businesses deserve your time? A structured search replaces months of scattered monitoring with a short list of targets genuinely compatible with your project and your purchasing capacity.

Scoping

What we define together.

Target sectors, and those you rule out
Territory: region, départements, or a radius around a city
Size: revenue, headcount
Purchasing capacity: available equity contribution, planned financing
Acquisition horizon and acceptable situation (solvent sale, court-supervised restructuring, court-ordered liquidation)

The deliverable

A shortlist of qualified targets.

For each business: activity and positioning, location, key financial indicators where available, sale situation, and the contact to open the conversation.

Target shortlist · excerpt Target profile

Joinery & fit-out · Loire-Atlantique

Revenue	€2.1M
Headcount	14
Situation	Solvent sale · owner retirement
Estimated adjusted EBITDA	€210k
Contact	Selling owner-manager · qualified

profile 3 / 12 · excerpt

Composite profile with fictional figures, representative of the delivered format.

Pricing

On request.

Depending on the scope of the search. An initial discussion frames the acquisition criteria.

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