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M••••• M•••••••• L••
What matters now
- "steps down"and 1 more phrase
Succession language on website (inference): "2024 After a long planned transition, G••• M••••• steps down as President at the end of 2023 and shifts to executive chair of the company." "Ownership transfers to his three children, [names withheld] – the fourth generation!"
The sentence is dated history (2024): it describes a handover already made, not one pending. It does not say the company is for sale.
Inferencecompany website, m•••••.com/history, read 13 Sep 2026For Independent sponsors, search fundsOpen the page → - $0.7M to $2.5Mprobable EBITDA
Probable EBITDA $0.7M to $2.5M on revenue of $8.8M to $15.8M, estimated from 44 employees.
Inside the $1M to $15M EBITDA range most independent sponsors state they buy.
InferenceDFX estimate from headcount on Form 5500, 55% confidence - 93dealability of 100
Why it fits: operating tenure +20, 35 years since earliest plan effective date (floor on age); ownership +10, founder owned (from research); sector demand +14.7, industrial manufacturing: sponsor demand index 0.98 (anonymised market prior).
The largest contributions to its dealability score, each with the fact it rests on.
DerivedDFX score, 24 Sep 2026 - 96data confidence of 100
How sure the record is: 3 independent sources; latest effective observation 13 Sep 2026; size estimate at 55% confidence.
How much of this page rests on independent sources rather than on our estimates.
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- +10O•••••••••Factfounder owned (from research)
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- Probable revenue
- $8.8M to $15.8M Estimate
- Probable EBITDA
- $704,000 to $2.5M Estimate
- Workforce proxy
- 56 plan participants
- Estimate computed on
- 44 employees, the headcount the size estimate used
- Method
- employees x sector revenue/employee band x sector EBITDA margin band
- Confidence
- 55%
- +40S•••••••••Fact3 independent sources
- +29.6F••••••••Factlatest effective observation 2026-09-13
- +16.5S•••••••••Estimate••• Locked
- Sep 13, 2026Succession language on websiteFactSuccession••• LockedCompany websites (about, team, news pages) m•••••.com
- Sep 13, 2026Succession language on websiteFactSuccession••• LockedCompany websites (about, team, news pages) m•••••.com
- G••• M•••••
- M••• G••••••
- Founded
- benefit plan since Sep 27, 1991 (age floor 34 years)
- Ownership
- Founder owned
- Plans on file
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| Fact | Value | Class | Effective | Source | Evidence |
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| Active participants | 44 | Fact | 2024-01-01 | DOL EFAST2 Form 5500 datasets | |
| Description | ••• Locked | Fact | Company websites (about, team, news pages) | ••• Locked | |
| Ebitda band | $1.6M | Estimate | 2026-09-13 | DFX model output (scores, estimates, matches) no URL | ••• Locked |
| Ebitda band | $1.6M | Estimate | 2026-09-12 | DFX model output (scores, estimates, matches) no URL | ••• Locked |
| Ebitda band | $1.6M | Estimate | 2026-09-11 | DFX model output (scores, estimates, matches) no URL | ••• Locked |
| Generation language | fourth-generation | Fact | Company websites (about, team, news pages) | ••• Locked | |
| Generation language | fourth generation | Fact | Company websites (about, team, news pages) | ••• Locked | |
| Hq location | Duluth, MN | Fact | 2024-01-01 | DOL EFAST2 Form 5500 datasets | |
| Leadership title | ••• Locked | Fact | Company websites (about, team, news pages) | ••• Locked | |
| Leadership title | ••• Locked | Fact | 1996-01-01 | Company websites (about, team, news pages) | ••• Locked |
| Naics code | 333200 | Fact | 2024-01-01 | DOL EFAST2 Form 5500 datasets | |
| Ownership type | Founder owned | Fact | Company websites (about, team, news pages) | ••• Locked | |
| Plan assets eoy usd | $14.6M | Fact | 2024-01-01 | DOL EFAST2 Form 5500 datasets | |
| Plan assets eoy usd | $12.1M | Fact | 2023-01-01 | DOL EFAST2 Form 5500 datasets | |
| Plan assets eoy usd | $10.5M | Fact | 2022-01-01 | DOL EFAST2 Form 5500 datasets | |
| Plan count | 2 | Fact | 2024-01-01 | DOL EFAST2 Form 5500 datasets | |
| Plan effective date earliest | 1991-09-27 | Fact | 2024-01-01 | DOL EFAST2 Form 5500 datasets | |
| Plan participants | 56 | Fact | 2024-01-01 | DOL EFAST2 Form 5500 datasets | |
| Plan participants | 55 | Fact | 2023-01-01 | DOL EFAST2 Form 5500 datasets | |
| Plan participants | 51 | Fact | 2022-01-01 | DOL EFAST2 Form 5500 datasets | |
| Subsector | Machinery manufacturing | Fact | 2024-01-01 | DOL EFAST2 Form 5500 datasets | |
| Succession language | executive chairman | Fact | Company websites (about, team, news pages) | ••• Locked | |
| Succession language | steps down | Fact | Company websites (about, team, news pages) | ••• Locked | |
| Vertical | Industrial manufacturing | Fact | 2024-01-01 | DOL EFAST2 Form 5500 datasets | |
| Website | ••• Locked | Inference | 2026-09-13 | DFX model output (scores, estimates, matches) | ••• Locked |
| Years in business claim | 30 | Fact | Company websites (about, team, news pages) | ••• Locked |