Sell your business in Salt Lake City.
Salt Lake City is the largest employment center in Utah and where BuildUp Group is based. If you own an established company here and are thinking about a sale, this page is for you.
The Salt Lake City economy.
Salt Lake City is the state's biggest job base. In 2024 the city averaged 17,849 employers and about 319,600 jobs, according to the Utah Department of Workforce Services.
Its goods-moving and building economy is large in its own right: about 63,800 jobs in trade, transportation and utilities, 26,900 in manufacturing and 15,400 in construction, spread across roughly 4,800 employers in those three sectors.
That depth means a Salt Lake City company usually sits inside a dense web of suppliers, subcontractors and customers along the I-15 and I-80 corridors.
- Employers
- 17,849
- Jobs
- 319,589
- Manufacturing jobs
- 26,897
- Construction jobs
- 15,378
- Trade, transportation & utilities jobs
- 63,810
Selling a business in Salt Lake City.
Owners in Salt Lake City usually have the widest choice of buyers in the state: national strategic acquirers, private equity, search funds, individual buyers using SBA loans and local holding companies all look here.
More choice is good, but it makes the question of fit more important. Decide early what matters besides price: who runs the business after you, whether your people stay, and whether the company stays rooted in the valley.
Because so many businesses here trade with each other, confidentiality matters. Customers, suppliers and competitors often know one another, so plan who learns about a sale, and when.
For the whole process, from preparation and valuation to the kinds of buyers and Utah's tax steps, read How to sell your company in Utah.
A local buyer.
BuildUp Group is based in Salt Lake City and buys established companies across the Wasatch Front, including Salt Lake City: manufacturing, fabrication, trades, equipment rental, trucking and B2B industrial services. We buy to own for the long term, and we keep the staff.
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General information, not legal or tax advice.