Your trusted partner in business succession planning
Dowel Holdings was founded with the sole purpose of acquiring a single exceptional small to medium-sized company and building upon the tireless work of it's ownership and management to carry their legacy forward into the future.
The Dowel Holdings difference
Industry domain expertise
Flexibility in ownership and management transition
Tailored financing options to support strategic business acquisitions with confidence.
People first
Long-term focus
Transparency in dealings
Discretion
Team
Yonas Mebrahtu
Founder & Managing Director
Yonas has 12 years of experience in both consulting and in industry having worked in middle and senior level management roles with various fortune 500 companies, high-growth scale-ups, and new ventures. His experience is focused on the consumer packaged goods and retail industries, more specifically grocery retail and businesses who both manufacture and distribute food and regulated products.
Throughout his career he has worked in a variety of functional areas including supply chain, strategy, planning, operations, post-M&A integration, sales insights, analytics, and technology implementation; and in close collaboration with other functional areas such as financial accounting, marketing, HR, legal, sales, etc.
Investment Criteria
Key characteristics of businesses we seek to partner with
Business:
- Manufacturing and/ or distribution focus
- Exists within one (or more) of the retail, consumer packaged goods, food processing, and food service industries
- Differentiated product or service
Financial:
- Between $1-10M CAD in annual revenue
- Between $0.5-2M CAD in annual EBITDA
- Profitable in recent years
- Recurring revenue
Geography:
- Ontario, Canada
- Greater Toronto Area
- Halton Region
- Southwestern Ontario
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