The Business
Reference Guide
An absolute necessity - invaluable to anyone involved in privately held businesses.
The Business Reference Guide
An absolute necessity-invaluable to anyone involved in privately held businesses.
The Business Reference Guide (BRG) is the world’s foremost business pricing guide. This comprehensive resource is the "go-to" resource for business brokers, M&A advisors, accountants, bankers, and countless others. For over 30 years, business transaction professionals across the country have relied upon this invaluable tool to evaluate and price businesses in the most up to date, thorough, and accurate manner possible.
The Business Reference Guide (BRG) is the world’s foremost business pricing guide. This comprehensive resource is the "go-to" resource for business brokers, M&A advisors, accountants, bankers, and countless others. For over 30 years, business transaction professionals across the country have relied upon this invaluable tool to evaluate and price businesses in the most up to date, thorough, and accurate manner possible.
Pricing Entries Contain:
- Proven Rules of Thumb for Pricing Businesses; rules based on both sales & earnings (SDE)
- Key pricing tips from BBP Industry Experts
- Insightful benchmark information that provides comparison data
- Invaluable industry resources, such as associations & publications with websites
- General information providing industry data, surveys & comments
- Fascinating facts regarding a range of businesses & industries
- Industry multiple summary data from DealStats
A Trusted Community Pillar & Partner
The Business Reference Guide is trusted by industry leaders, ranging from bankers, business brokers and business appraisers to institutions, such as the Small Business Association (SBA) and the Small Business Development Center (SBDC).
The BRG also has some of the world’s most respected businesses as key customers including the AICPA, the International Business Brokers Association, TransWorld Business Brokers, Murphy Business Brokers and more.
The BRG is truly an invaluable tool for any business transaction professional.
Thousands of users trust the Business Reference Guide to direct and guide their work. It has been called "an absolute necessity-invaluable to anyone involved in privately held businesses."
If you are seeking reliable and accurate pricing information on more than 600 types of businesses, The Business Reference Guide (BRG) has you covered. It is considered the industry’s essential guide for pricing businesses. This streamlined and intuitive industry reference guide has been effectively utilized by high achieving professionals for more than three decades.
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Now in its 35th edition, the 2025 Business Reference Guide is the world’s foremost guide to pricing businesses. New for 2025, the BRG provides up-to-date rules of thumb & pricing info on nearly 600 types of businesses.
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