{"id":3023,"date":"2014-10-04T22:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T05:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/?p=3023"},"modified":"2015-01-28T12:58:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T20:58:36","slug":"selling-businesses-hyatt-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/selling-businesses-hyatt-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons From Hyatt Family Decisions on Selling Businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"

For many business owners, selling a business is both about the money and about finding the right home for their life’s work. \u00a0This was very true for the Hyatt family as they worked to sell family businesses over the last decade after the patriarch’s death. \u00a0I was struck by several quotes from Thomas Pritzker, Chairman of Hyatt, about the process of selling businesses in a recent profile in the Financial Times.<\/a>\"marmon\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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One of the companies that Mr. Pritzker was particularly proud of was Marmon, an industrial congomerate with interests from vehicle parts to railway carriages. \u00a0He ran the business before selling it to Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway. \u00a0“I wanted to find the right home for it,” he says. \u00a0“I considered an auction but auctions involve risk. \u00a0You may get a market clearing price but not a home that reflects us.”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Selling businesses gets personal<\/h3>\n

Business owners can often get a fair price from all sorts of buyers. \u00a0The difficult part is finding the right home for the business that works for the customers, the employees, and the owners of the business. \u00a0Here is a link to the full profile that appeared in the Financial Times on September 21, 201<\/a>4.<\/p>\n

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