Business Valuation Experience:

Industry Expertise (Limited Sampling)

It is impossible to list all of the unique segments in which Banister Financial’s business valuation experts have experience- this is just a limited sampling. In the e-commerce related services sector many “traditional” company types listed here are also involved directly in or supporting or serving that sector. Our specialists have extensive experience in many ecommerce segments.

Advertising, Public Relations, Digital Marketing

Advertising
Digital marketing
Public relations
Related consulting

Automobile Dealerships

Accura
Audi
BMW
Buick
Cadillac
Chevrolet
Chrysler
Ford, Lincoln-Mercury
GMC
Honda
Hyundai
Infiniti
Lexus
Jaguar
Jeep
Kia
Land Rover
Mazda
Mercedes
Nissan
Toyota
Volvo

Beverage Distribution

Anheuser Busch
Bottled water
Coca Cola
Craft beers
Miller-Coors
Monster
Pepsi
Ready-to-drink tea
Regional brands
Seven UP

Boat, Shipping Vessel Manufacturing

Mega-yacht
Pleasure power boat
Power boat retailers

Building Materials Manufacturing

Box and containers
Brick
Drywall, acoustical tiles
Flooring
Forest products trucking
Hardwood flooring mills
Industrial pipe
Lumber mills- hardwood
Lumber mills- softwood
Pallets
Paper converter
Plywood mills
Ready mix plants
Roof truss
Windows and doors
Wood treating

Cloud Services, Data Centers

Cloud services
Data centers
Exchange, web hosting
Managed IT services

Construction/Contracting

Asphalt reclamation
Commercial builders
Concrete
Construction/development
Drywall
Electrical utility
Electrical- commercial
Electrical- residential
Engineering firms
Environmental remediation
Fire control systems
Framing
General
Grading
Home repair/remodeling
HVAC
Industrial builders
Institutional
Insulation
Interior upfitting
Landscaping
Marine contractors
Other specialty contractors
Paving
Petroleum industry
Plumbing
Prison construction
Residential homebuilders
Road building
Septic tanks
Soil stabilization
Sprinkler
Steel erection
Structured cabling
Tower construction/mgt. (wireless)
Utility lines
Water/sewer utility

Consulting Firms

Brand management
Data analytics
Financial management
Information technology (IT)
Life care facilities
Management
Manufacturing
Marketing
Pharmaceutical (multiple categories)
Software
Strategic
Supply chain
Turnaround management
Valuation
Web design

Dental Practices

General dentistry
Endodontics
Mobile dental
Oral surgery
Orthodontics
Pediatric dentistry
Restorative, esthetic

Distribution, Wholesale

Agricultural fumigants
Automation/robotics equip.
Automotive lubricants
Automotive parts
Automotive tires/accessories
Aviation metals
Bakery products
Battery components
Beauty products
Building materials
CAT dealers
Chemicals
Coffee
Commercial products
Commercial/institutional furniture
Construction equip.
Consumer products
Cookies
Copiers, imaging equip.
Cross-stitch products
Defense products
Doors, door hardware
Electrical supplies
Equip./supplies- prisons
Farming equipment
Fish byproducts
Flow controls
Food/consumer sundries
Food Products
Foodservice equip.
Halloween/magic supplies
Hammocks
Hardware/building supplies
Hispanic foods
Hospital supplies
Hot sauces
Hot spices
Household appliances
Household electronics
Hunting supplies
Industrial air filtration
Industrial equip.
Industrial gases
Industrial products
Industrial supplies
Institutional air filtration
Institutional food
Interior doors
Janitorial supplies
Laptop cases
Lawn, garden equip.
Lab supplies
Life sciences products
Lift truck dealers
Lighting
Lubricants
Lumber
Material handling equip.
Meat purveyors
Nursery products
Office products/supplies
Party supplies
Pharmaceuticals
Plastics
Point of sale equip.
Polymers
Pottery
Power generation equip.
Process controls
Reconstructive, trauma products
Roadbuilding, paving equip.
Sanitary equip.- food processing
Sausage
Seafood wholesale
Seasonings
Soaps
Sporting goods
Stone
Tires
Tools
Uninterruptible power supplies
Utility lift (bucket) trucks
Utility line safety equip.
Vet pharmaceuticals
Video poker machines
Wood chippers

E-Commerce

(many businesses on this page have some e-commerce element, partial or full)

Education Services

Home schooling products
Sylvan Learning Centers

Family Limited Partnerships, LLCs

Closely held stock
Hedge fund interests
Marketable securities
Notes, mortgages
Private equity interests
Real estate
Various other assets

Farming, Agriculture

Agricultural fertilizer, pesticide distribution
Ag rebate processing
Cattle farming
Commodities dealers
Commodity statistics, research publishers
Cotton ginning
Farming
Farming implement dealers
Feed mills
Fumigants- manufacturing, distribution
Peanut processing
Trading companies

Financial Services

Consumer finance
Discount brokerage
Financial consulting
Financial services
Hedge fund mgt.
Insurance adjusting
Insurance agencies
Insurance companies
Leasing companies
Mortgage banking
Mortgage brokerage
Personal financing planning
Private equity
Proprietary trading
Regional savings and loans
Regional/community banks
Registered Investment Advisory
Turnaround mgt
Venture capital
Wealth management

Furniture Industry

Casegoods mftg.
Furniture discount retail
Furniture pieces
Furniture representatives
Furniture retailers, including online retailers
Furniture trucking
Hammocks
Hardgoods manufacturing
Metal furniture manufacturing
Metal furniture slides mftg.
Upholstery mftg.

Health Care Related (Medical, Dental in Separate Category)

Adult congregate living facilities
Ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs)
Case management
Claims management
Durable medical equipment
Eye laser surgery centers
Home health care
Home infusion therapy
Lithotripsy partnerships
Medical billing
Medical imaging centers
Medical laboratories
Medical temporaries
Mobile cath labs
Nursing homes
Orthopedic brace distribution
Orthopedic brace mftg.
Orthopedic device sales agency
Pathology laboratory services
Physical therapy
PPO network
Third party administrators (TPA)- health, medical, workers comp. claims
Urgent care center

Information Technology

Cloud services
Data centers
Government IT contractors
IT consulting firms
Litigation support software and analysis
Software as a service (SaaS)
Software development
Supply chain software installs
Systems, software engineering
Tax management contracting- govts
Value added resellers (VARs)

Life Sciences

Fetal bovine serum filtration, distribution
Life sciences products, supplies

Manufacturing

Attachments for skid steers
Automotive chemicals
Automotive upholstery
Automotive, industrial cleaners
Bakery
Brass fittings
Brick making equipment
Building materials
Business forms
Chemicals
Coffee roasting
Commercial printers
Communications equipment
Controls, piping
Cookies
Custom metal fabrication, machine shops
Doors
Electric utility switches, related
Electronic switchgear
Fabric/material converting
Fire protection devices
Fish, crab dehydrating
Flexible packaging
Flow controls
Golf and sporting goods
Hot sauces
Hot spices
Industrial auto lubricants
Industrial gases
Metal treating
Millwork
Non-woven products
Paint
Paper converting
Paperboard boxes
Party supplies
Plastic bags
Plastic sheet
Pneumatic equipment
Polymer manufacturing filtration
Precision bearings
Pressure sensitive paper
Process controls
Ready to drink tea
Sign manufacturing
Signs
Soaps, cleaning products
Specialty cabinetry
Specialty chemicals
Steel
Tags, business labels
Telecom equipment
Trusses
Wild game attractants
Windows
Wood chipping

Manufacturing- Fabrication

Aerospace
Automotive components
Custom machining, fabrication
Doors
Firedoors
Furniture and parts
Machine parts
Machine tools
Pressure vessels
Steel fabrication
Steel springs, coils
Trucking components

Medical Practices- Primary Care

Family practice
Internal medicine
Pediatrics
Obstetrics, gynecology
Occupational medicine
Urgent care

Medical Practices: Specialties

Anesthesiology
Bariatric surgery
Cardiology
Dermatology
Emergency medicine
Gastroenterology
General surgery
Medical oncology
Mohs Surgery
Multi-specialty clinics
Nephrology
Neurology
Oncology
Ophthalmology
Orthopedics
Other specialties
Otolaryngology
Pathology
Pediatric surgery
Psychiatry
Physiatry
Plastic surgery
Radiation oncology
Radiology
Retinal surgery
Rheumatology
Sleep medicine
Thoracic surgery
Tubal ligation reversal
Urology
Vascular surgery
Weight loss clinics

Other Healthcare Related

Chiropractic
Optometry
Physical therapy
Podiatry
Veterinary

Miscellaneous

Auto body shop
Auto repair
Coal mining
Daycare nursery
Defense- Special Ops. Training
Defense contractors
Environmental consulting, clean-up
Golf cart distribution
Ice manufacturing
Karaoke music production, distribution
Marinas
Materials logistics
Metals recycling
NASCAR racing teams
Oil and gas
Outdoor advertising
Party tent, chair rental
Petroleum specialties
Point-of-purchase displays
Publishing (Newspaper)
Quarry/mining
Railroad
Sheltered housing
Shipyard and dry-dock
Weekly publications

Pharmaceutical

Clinical research organizations
Consulting
Drug testing
Manufacturing
Wholesale, distribution

Professional Practices (Medical, Dental Elsewhere)

Accounting firms
Architectural firms
Consulting firms (separate category)
Engineering firms
Landscape architecture, design
Law firms
Surveying

Publishing

Books
Online specialty industry news
Periodicals
Research

Real Estate Development, Investment

Apartments
Billboards
Commercial properties
Fast food properties
Infrastructure
Mini-storage
Mobile home parks
Real estate developers
Real estate holdings cos. 
Real estate private fund groups
Residential properties
Shopping centers

Real Estate, Related

Commercial listing
Commercial development
Industrial property development
Property management, leasing
Residential development
Residential listing

Recreation, Entertainment

Amusement centers
Bowling alleys
Movie theater chains
Museum/national heritage site
Roller rinks
Summer resort
Theme parks

Restaurants and Related

Applebee’s
Backyard Burgers
Bojangles
Burger King
Development agents
Dominoes
Five Guys
Franchisees of national chains
Franchisors
Frozen yogurt
Hardee's
Krispy Kreme
Locally owned restaurants
McDonalds
Papa Johns
Pizza Hut
Restaurants with microbreweries
Subway
Wendy's

Restricted Stock, Blockage

Blockage discounts for public stock
Restricted stock in public companies

Retailer (Small, Regional, National)

Beauty salons/hairstyling
Car washes
Convenience store chains- national
Convenience store chains- regional
Convenience stores- local
Department store chains
Discount liquor retail
Discount retail chains
Dollar store chains
Dry-cleaners
Farming goods retail chains
Footware
Furniture
Halloween/magic supplies
Hardware, building supplies
Health clubs
Lumber retailing
Motorcycle dealers
Multi-unit specialty retailers
Nursery
Office supplies
Paints
Party supplies
Petroleum dealers
Tire, repair centers

Service Sector (Not Elsewhere Classified)

Auto glass repair
Coal, oil brokers
Electric utility contracting distribution
Event planning
Food brokers
Funeral homes
Health spas
Manufacturers’ reps
Natural gas brokers
Office equipment, small ticket leasing
Product design, placement
Property management
Rebate fulfillment
Records management, storage
Security install/monitoring
Tax preparation
Title insurance companies
Travel agencies
Utility services-underground line identification
Video poker operators

Stock Options

Closely held companies
Publicly traded companies

Telecom, Communications

Cable TV systems
Cabling, fiber optic contractors
Cellular partnerships
Competitive local exchange carriers
Fiber networks
Internet service providers
Local telephone cos.
Long distance- resellers
Long distance- switch based
Paging
Police, fire communications
Tower construction, mgmt.
Telecom equipment suppliers
Voice over IP providers
Wireless Internet providers

Staffing Firms

Accounting
Construction
Dentists and support staff
Engineering
Executive search
Financial
Industrial temporary
Information technology (IT)
Lab professionals
Nursing
Office, clerical
Physician
Turnkey facility mgt.- short/long-term
Validation testing

Textile Industry

Apparel mftg
Blankets
Broadwoven
Dyeing, finishing
Fiber Recycling
Fibers
Hosiery
Medical specialty fabrics
Narrow fabric
Screen printing of apparel
Specialty
Specialty fabrics
Spinning
Textile specialty
Textured yarns
Yarns

Tobacco Related

Cigarette manufacturing
Cigarette, tobacco wholesale
Electronic cigarette manufacturing
Tobacco auction warehouses
Tobacco contract receiving stations

Transportation, Supply Chain

Aircraft charter, leasing
Aircraft component manufacturing
Aviation fixed base operators
Bulk hauling
Commercial cargo airline
Commercial trucking
Commodities hauling
Distribution center management
Enzyme hauling
Freight forwarders, brokers
Freight handling, grocery industry
Freight unloading
Fuel hauling
Logistics
Moving, storage
Petroleum hauling
Propane hauling
Railroad
Stone, aggregate

Vending Services

Air services
Condoms
Food service
Snacks
Stickers/tattoos
Vending machine services

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