About Us

Sunbelt's History

Sunbelt was founded by Ed Pendarvis in Charleston, South Carolina, USA in 1978. Ed developed a highly successful business brokerage operation and began franchising business brokerage offices under the Sunbelt marks during the mid 1990’s. Sunbelt has enjoyed tremendous success as a franchise system and has expanded to become the world’s largest business brokerage operation with approximately 250 franchised office locations in 30 countries.

Sunbelt was launched in the UK during 2005 and now has the benefit of 14 offices stratigically located in the major cities that include London, Bath, Bristol, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Gloucester, Liverpool, Manchester, Norwich, Oxford, Portmouth and Reading. Sunbelt maintains a progressive and forward thinking ethos that enables it to maintain a leadership in the business brokerage industry by investing in professional education programs for our Office Owners and Brokers, developing leading edge technology and systems, and leveraging our international office network to better serve our clients.

Why More Business Owners Choose Sunbelt

• Largest High Street and Lower Middle Market business intermediary company in the world!
• More Certified Business Intermediaries (CBI) than any other compay!
• More than 10,000 business-for-sale listings!
• Tens of thousands of registered business buyers looking for just the right business!
• We wrote the book (Selling Your Business For Dummies) on how to sell your business!

Are you interested in buying or selling a business? We encourage you to contact your local business broker for a confidential, no obligation conversation.