28-Year Category Leader | $13MM Revenue | $1.44MM SDE | In-House
Listing Number: 1101-245953
Listing Details
- Down Payment: $5,500,000
- Sales: $13,087,951
- Seller's Discretionary Earnings: $1,442,293
- Inventory: $2,397,560
- Furniture, Fixtures, and Equipment: $690,409
- Employees: 34
- Year Established: 1998
- Reason for Selling: Retiring
Business Description
Transworld Business Advisors presents a 28-year-old, founder-owned online retailer generating approximately $13 million in annual net sales and $1.44 million in FY2025 SDE — designing, manufacturing, and fulfilling a catalog of roughly 17,000 SKUs from a single purpose-built facility in Western New York.
The company is among the largest independent specialists in its category, and one of a handful of internet-native retailers of any kind to have thrived across three decades of fashion cycles and platform shifts.
Revenue flows through a branded Shopify storefront (≈85% of sales), a native mobile app with materially higher order values, Amazon US (growing ≈25% in 2026), Walmart, Etsy, and TikTok Shop. Behind those channels sits a fully owned audience of 2.6MM email profiles, 1.2MM SMS subscribers, and 3.9MM+ social followers — a marketing asset the buyer owns from day one rather than having to build.
An in-house gold department, led by a master jeweler and certified gemologist, produces 14k and 18k gold, diamond, and lab-grown-diamond pieces in the USA — a position no marketplace seller or dropshipper can replicate at the company's price point.
Investment Highlights:
Durable, diversified revenue: ≈$13MM for three straight years across six sales channels; ≈360K orders per year with zero customer concentration.
Vertical integration: in-house manufacturing, laser customization, photography studio, and fulfillment under one roof.
Owned audience at scale: email returns ≈4× and drives ≈12% of DTC revenue; 40% of customers are repeat buyers contributing ≈46% of sales.
Management in place: VP of Operations with 23 years' tenure and department leads of 10–20+ years; the owner works ≈10 hours/week remotely.
Growth levers unpulled: Amazon, mobile app, TikTok Shop, subscriptions, wholesale re-entry, international reactivation.
Bonus second brand: a complete, USA-made consumer brand with its own equipment and 1.4MMprofile email list conveys at no additional cost.
