SellingStores is a full service business brokerage firm specializing in selling retail operations. We are the largest non-franchised broker in the nation in terms of number of transactions completed each year, area covered, and number of agents. Our offices are located throughout California, Nevada, and Washington.

Our agents are former entrepreneurs or experienced business people who know what it takes to close a deal and understand the stresses a seller faces with selling a business. Our agents receive hundreds of hours of training each year on topics such as valuing a store, preparing a store for market, qualifying a buyer, negotiating the best deal for our Seller, solving complex transaction issues, navigating through the closing process, working with government agencies, finding financing, and many more issues a typical deal faces each day.

OUR HISTORY

Paramount Business Brokers was started 1991 by Bret Lowrey out of the Grass Valley area where he started brokering all sorts of businesses. In 2002, Paramount Restaurant Brokers, Inc. was formed exclusively to service the restaurant industry.

In 2001, Mel Jones, after leaving his position as a CFO for Universal Music Group, searched for a business to buy. He quickly learned the business brokerage industry business model needed some work. Service was lacking. Information was ill prepared and often wrong. Agents were salespeople with little business experience and rarely ever specialized in any one industry.

More important, brokers never attempted to create a relationship with Mel in order to sell him a business despite the fact Mel had plenty of cash and lots of business experience to be able to make an agent a substantial commission for one transaction.

Mel's experience led to what SellingStores has become today...empowering Buyers with decision information, creating long-term relationships with Buyers and Sellers, and providing the highest quality service to our Sellers the industry has to offer. Of course, cutting edge technology is used to get all this accomplished with a website years ahead of our closest competitor, agents that are well trained and educated, and the most advanced marketing and advertising techniques in the industry.

In 2005, Mel purchased all of Bret Lowrey's interest in Paramount.

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