Buy a manufacturing business in Mississippi

Highest CBP average headcount is the Mississippi fact

Census CBP 2023 printed 1,981 Mississippi manufacturing establishments, 146,261 employees, a 73.8 average, 59.8% under 20, and 2.42% at 500-plus. The 73.8 average is the highest cell in that state table. It is a staffing fact. It is not a multiple. Confirm the plant’s actual headcount. A 73.8-person furniture shop sits closer to federal WARN’s 100-full-time test than a typical Main Street file.

Buy a manufacturing business is the national pillar. This page is the Mississippi overlay. Jackson, Gulfport-Biloxi, Hattiesburg, Tupelo, and Meridian are sourcing labels. If you will not relocate, say which bench you can staff.

The sell page is the owner’s voice. Arkansas prints the highest 500-plus share. Do not copy that 3.05% cell onto this 73.8 average.

Furniture, ship, and auto-supplier packets

Research allows qualitative clusters only: furniture, shipbuilding, auto suppliers, food, wood. Confirm any NAICS count before you put it in a teaser. Sub-sectors keep those packets apart. A Tupelo furniture book and a Gulfport ship-adjacent file share a flag. They do not share certificates or inventory classes.

HedgeStone will not invent listings against the 1,981-count file. “Any plant in Mississippi” wastes seller goodwill.

Gulfport is not Tupelo

Two benches. A 73.8-person shop usually still has an owner who quotes or holds the customer. If you cannot replace that person in Hattiesburg or Meridian, the teaser is a brochure. The research file has no Mississippi wage table. National May 2025 OEWS medians — machinist $58,750, welder $53,750 — are backdrop (Source: BLS OEWS). Recast the burdened payroll. Do not invent a Jackson print.

How it works still puts returns before a Tupelo walk.

Does a 73.8-person Mississippi shop still fit 7(a)?

It can if enterprise value plus fees plus the peg fit the published $5 million box. It cannot if you treated the highest CBP average as a reason to stretch past the cap. SBA 7(a) for manufacturing acquisitions is the product page. Published terms still show a $5 million maximum and a 10% injection (Source: SBA). Jackson seller paper counts as injection only on full standby through the 7(a) and only for half the 10%. A monthly draft is credit.

504 can carry an occupied plant: $5 million standard, $5.5 million small-manufacturer. Occupancy is a fact. Combined programs are not a cash-out on a thin check against a 73.8-person shop.

Write the peg before anyone counts. Furniture WIP and ship-adjacent long-lead parts do not share a class. Physical count at close.

Phase I on wood and coating bays

Mississippi’s table leaves transfer unmarked as an ISRA clone. Occasional-sale / manufacturing-exemption language still sits on M&E. Successor tax is F. Mini-WARN is N. Ask who marketed the 1,981-shop file even though no dedicated license rule is widely cited (licensing). Jason Taken is paid on the going concern. A Mississippi deed still needs a licensed real-estate broker if you take the dirt.

Phase I supports All Appropriate Inquiries (Source: EPA / 40 C.F.R. Part 312). Phase I and Phase II ESA follows ASTM E1527-21. A wood finishing line or a coating bay is not exempt because the transfer cell is N. Studies stale. A Mississippi CPA owns MfgEx / Occ treatment.

If you later cut or move work, federal WARN tests 100 or more full-time employees. Mini-WARN N. A 73.8-person average sits closer to that test than most state cells. A remnant on the 2.42% 500-plus share may already be over it. Do not invent a headcount.

Valuation stays on national size bands. BizBuySell’s manufacturing median 2.75x SDE is Main Street (Source: BizBuySell). Rank 36 is not a sponsor multiple.

Buyer types will not share your earnings base. A furniture add-on will not pay a spec multiple for an owner-quoted wood shop. A searcher who imported a high-margin study print will mis-price a 73.8-person food plant. Anyone who needs 7(a) will walk when the published cap is missed.

BizBuySell’s 2025 manufacturing median close was 223 days (Source: BizBuySell). Staff QoE and a Phase I against that clock. IBBA Pulse Q1 2026 said 83% of deals over $5 million drew three or more offers. Most 1,981-shop files never enter that room. Leave ISM August 2026 PMI 54.6 and Fed G.17 July 2026 utilization 76.0% in the year file.

After a Tupelo or Gulfport wire, keep the quoters, lock furniture or ship accounts, and recount. The 7(a) box is closed (Source: SBA). A 73.8-person floor — the CBP table’s heaviest average — will not run without those names.

Pull serials and liens before a Hattiesburg walk. Appraise FMV, OLV, and FLV separately. When asking EV is basically iron plus a cleaned peg, you are buying a heavier payroll than most state pages describe. Concentration above about 25–30% of sales is still structure.

Jason Taken will write furniture, ship, auto, food, or wood — then cut Jackson-to-Tupelo radius language. We will not hide the 73.8 average because the teaser photographed a full lot.

Mississippi counsel picks APA or SPA. Neither form answers the highest-average cell. Confirm locally. No outcome is guaranteed.

A Tupelo furniture buyer who copies Gulfport ship consent math will miss the spec card. A Hattiesburg wood buyer who copies Jackson food lots will miss moisture. Write the process. Write the actual heads against 73.8. Then decide whether the published 7(a) box still fits a heavier payroll. A 1,981-shop map with the CBP table’s highest average does not owe you a campus multiple. Confirm heads. Write the packet. Then decide if you can staff Tupelo or Gulfport — not both by default. Occupancy in Jackson is a 504 fact. Empty dirt sold as optional is not a debenture story on a 73.8-person shop. Mini-WARN is N. Confirm heads anyway if you later cut or move work. Write whether you will live in Jackson, Gulfport, Hattiesburg, Tupelo, or Meridian before anyone tours the floor.

Book a confidential intro call after you can name the process and the actual headcount.

Meridian is not Gulfport. Hattiesburg is not Tupelo. The 73.8 average is the CBP table’s heaviest staffing cell. It sits closer to federal WARN’s 100-full-time test than most state pages. Confirm the plant’s actual heads before you decide whether the published 7(a) product fits.

Furniture spec WIP is not ship-adjacent long-lead parts. Auto scorecards are not wood moisture lots. Food lots are not any of those. Write the packet before the county name. A CIM that leads with “Southern campus” is a brochure until the process is named.

If you will not live on the bench you named, say so. Most operators will not. HedgeStone will not mix a Gulfport ship file with a Tupelo furniture book because they share a 1,981-count flag.

Pull serials before a Meridian walk. Furniture spec WIP is not ship-adjacent long-lead parts. Auto scorecards are not wood moisture lots. Food lots are not any of those. Write the class. Physical count at close.

The 73.8 average is a staffing fact that sits closer to federal WARN’s 100-full-time test than most state cells. Confirm heads before you decide whether the published 7(a) product fits. Mini-WARN is N. That is not a free pass if you later cut or move work.

If orderly liquidation plus a cleaned peg is close to asking enterprise value, you are buying iron with a heavier payroll than most pages describe. Deferred capex is a chip.

Educational briefing only. Mississippi counsel, a CPA, a lender, and qualified environmental and M&E professionals own the cells. No outcome is guaranteed.

US-45 through Tupelo is not US-90 through Gulfport. Write furniture or write ship. Write the actual heads against the 73.8 average before you decide whether the published 7(a) box fits. A heavier payroll is a hiring plan, not a multiple. HedgeStone will not mix those packets because they share a 1,981-count flag.

Mississippi’s CBP 2023 file counted 1,981 shops, 146,261 employees, a 73.8 average, 59.8% under 20, and 2.42% at 500-plus. Mini-WARN is N. Write staffing before town.