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Sell your distribution company to a buyer who understands working capital.
RockHaven Capital buys specialty wholesale distribution companies directly from their owners.
In distribution the proof lives in the inventory turns and the supplier lines, so those get read before anything else.
Who We Buy From
The distribution companies we buy
Distributors sit between makers and users, and the good ones are hard to displace. Supplier relationships and delivery routes take years to build.
Our focus is specialty wholesale outside food and pharmaceutical lines. Those two fields carry their own rules, and we stay outside them.
Industrial and MRO distribution
Supplies and parts sold to plants, shops, and contractors. Repeat orders from working accounts are the core of the value.
Building products distribution
Materials supplied to builders and remodelers in a defined territory. Contractor relationships built over years carry real weight.
Specialty wholesale
Focused product lines sold to a known set of business buyers. Depth in a niche beats breadth without a story.
Value-added distribution
Distributors that kit, assemble, or configure what they sell. The added work makes the account harder to move.
Take our free five-minute assessment to get an estimate of what your business could sell for.
What's My Business Worth? Book a CallWhat We Look At
Five things we check first
A distributor proves its cash flow through its inventory and its receivables. These five checks show us whether both are as healthy as the income statement claims.
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Revenue of $1M to $10M a year
We buy distributors in that band. A distributor in that range has real accounts and a warehouse operation behind them.
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Cash flow of $300K and up
The tax returns have to back it up. We tie the returns to inventory counts and receivable aging before we price.
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Supplier lines that stay with the business
Authorized lines and long supplier relationships are hard to rebuild. We check early which lines continue under a new owner.
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Inventory that turns
Stock should move at a pace that matches the sales record. Heavy dead stock gets found in diligence, so we would rather see it priced honestly up front.
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Customers spread across accounts
Repeat business accounts should outnumber any single large buyer. A wide account base steadies both sales and collections.
What a RockHaven deal looks like
- Structure
- Majority buyouts
- Geography
- Anywhere in the continental United States
- Seller fees
- None. Sellers are charged no fees, ever, and the business is never listed.You keep the money a broker would take.
Take our free five-minute assessment to get an estimate of what your business could sell for.
What's My Business Worth? Book a CallThe Principals
A track record built in operating businesses
All three exits came from companies they co-founded from the idea up with a founding team, not from businesses they bought and flipped. One was acquired by a publicly traded company.
Companies founded or co-founded
Exits from companies we co-founded from the ground up
Sales driven by our teams
Capital raised for real estate and operating companies
Why Owners Talk To Us
A direct buyer changes the conversation
Distributors rarely list well, because the supplier lines react badly to public sale rumors. Four things change in a direct sale.
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We are the buyer, not a broker
You sit across from the firm that would own your company. Your supplier lines and customer margins stay out of a public listing.
One conversation with the buyer, not a parade of strangers through your business. -
Supplier relationships protected
A quiet sale keeps your lines calm while terms are worked out. Suppliers hear the news as a completed handover rather than a rumor.
Your staff, customers, and competitors never find out from a listing. -
Your warehouse team stays
The drivers and warehouse staff who know every account are part of the operation. Most of them stay in their roles after a sale.
In most cases, the people who helped you build it keep their jobs. -
Working capital read fairly
We price inventory and receivables on their real condition. Clean counts and current receivables show up in the number.
A straight number early, with the reason behind it.
The listed route, by the numbers
A listed distributor risks its supplier lines while it waits for a buyer. These figures show what that wait usually looks like.
Median time to close for a business that sells through the market
Source: BizBuySell, 2025 Year in Review. Counts businesses that sold.
Of businesses that go to market ever sell at all
Source: Exit Planning Institute estimate. Based on owner readiness survey data, not a census of listings.
The broker success fee alone on a $1M sale, on the standard scale
Source: Double Lehman fee scale, published broker guides, 2026.
How It Works
Four steps from first call to close
Four steps, and you deal with us directly at each one.
A private conversation
We talk through your lines, your accounts, and your reasons for selling.
A straight valuation
We read your tax returns and your inventory records and come back with a value. If the number is not there, we will tell you that too.
A straight number early, with the reason behind it.A structure that fits
Cash is paid at close, and seller financing is used where it fits.
A clean close
The paperwork is short and written in plain language. Once terms are agreed, we aim to close in four to eight weeks.
A real close date in weeks, not a listing that sits while the market decides.Working with an advisor or broker? They hear back from us within two business days, and their fee is protected.
Contact
Start a conversation about your distribution company
Start with the free assessment. Or book a call and talk directly with a principal.