Press Releases

Coventry, CT – Business Transition Strategies (BTS), a Touchstone Advisors company, is proud to announce the successful sale of Highland Park Market to Harsh Patel. BTS represented Matt Miner, the former owner, in the transaction. Highland Park Market, a beloved, full-service upscale grocery store located in Coventry, CT, has been…

CONCORD, NH, April 2024 Business Transition Strategies (BTS), now a Touchstone Advisors Company, served as mergers and acquisition advisor for three-generation manufacturer Wasik Associates, a global market leader and producer of Electron Beam Processing Systems based in Dracut, Massachusetts. Wasik was founded in 1982 by Peter Wasik Sr., continued after…

MANCHESTER – Business Transition Strategies, a division of New Hampshire Business Sales is pleased to announce the acquisition of Surplus Office Equipment, by Jeff Gagnon the owner of Office Alternatives, LLC. Mr. Gagnon is a 15 year employee of Surplus Office Equipment. The management buyout transition between former owner Gagne…

Comptus, Inc. ™, a leading producer of quality atmospheric and weather condition devices, has been acquired by Beta Group, a New Hampshire-based manufacturing management company which plans to keep and grow the operation within the state. The transaction involving the New Boston company closed Thursday, March 30 and was coordinated…

LEBANON – A private agency supporting independent living for the aging population of central and northern New Hampshire is now under new ownership. Comfort Keepers of Central New Hampshire, which provides non-medical, privately-funded home care and assistance to residents of 78 communities stretching from Laconia to Lebanon and north to…

Lawrence, Mass. – Adrian Pyke, a North Shore-based electrical engineer has acquired Sanchez Associates of Lawrence from its founder, Albert Sanchez of Newburyport. Going forward, the company will operate under the name Sanchez Microelectronics and will continue to provide hybrid integrated circuitry components used in the aeronautics, aerospace and defense…

John Howe, director of Business Transition Strategies and vice president of N.H. Business Sales, has been elected to the Board of Directors of The M&A Source, an international professional organization for merger and acquisition intermediaries. Joe Lindsey, 2015 Chairman of The M&A Source, stated, “Besides John’s high standards of character…

PEMBROKE – The M&A Source has conferred its prestigious designation of Merger & Acquisition Master Intermediary (M&AMI) on Ken Schaefer, deputy director of Business Transition Strategies, a merger and acquisition firm based here. Schaefer is a resident of Manchester. The firm serves companies in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Maine when…

PETERBOROUGH – Pure Flow, Inc., an ultra-pure water purification company serving the medical, manufacturing, commercial and institutional sectors across the Northeast, has been acquired by East Range Partners of Cambridge, Mass. The acquisition was coordinated by John Howe and Ken Schaefer of Business Transition Strategies, an M&A advisory firm with…

PEMBROKE – John Howe, director of Business Transition Strategies, was presented the Champion’s Award at the M&A Source’s Fall Conference and Dealmakers Expo in Albuquerque, NM. Howe was recognized for his service as a board member, chairman of conference planning and chairman of webinar programs for the national association of…

MANCHESTER – New Image Coatings, LLC the manufacturer of environmentally sensitive waterproofing products and poly-blends for all types of wood, concrete/masonry and other surfaces, has been sold to U-C Coatings of Buffalo, New York. The sale was completed April 20. New Image, located at 150 Dow Street, markets its products…

John Howe, M&AMI, director of Business Transition Strategies (BTS) in Pembroke, has been named Chairman of The M&A Source, an association of professional M&A intermediaries from across the country. He was named to the position at the fall conference last month in Phoenix. His term starts in January. He has…