Business cessations (24 months)
12 113 cessations in the department
Business takeover in Bas-Rhin
Buying a business in Bas-Rhin: how many businesses stop, how many goodwill sales are recorded, and how many owners are approaching retirement. The real market, in public figures updated monthly.
Recorded goodwill sales (24 months)
1 169 goodwill sales in the BODACC
Owners aged 60 and over
33% of owners — as many upcoming transfers
Buy or create?
Taking over means starting with a customer base, revenue and a team already in place — cash flows in from the first month. Creating costs less upfront, but everything remains to be built. The figures lean towards takeover: the 5-year survival rate of a taken-over business clearly exceeds that of a new one. The real challenge is paying the right price and choosing the right area.
Takeover support schemes
ACRE lightens your social contributions in the first year. ARCE converts your unemployment rights into capital to finance the purchase. In towns classified FRR (ex-ZRR), a takeover opens rights to profit-tax exemptions for several years. Add honour loans and Bpifrance guarantees: a takeover is often better supported than a creation.
Where to start in Bas-Rhin?
Pick a trade and look at the local market: establishment stock, cessations, promising areas. Our per-trade and per-town analyses give the public figures to target your takeover.
FAQ
- Where to find a business to take over in Bas-Rhin?
- Official marketplaces (CCI, CMA, Transentreprise) publish part of the market. But many transfers are never advertised: they go through accountants, notaries and word of mouth. The share of owners aged 60 and over gives the best measure of the market to come.
- Does taking over cost more than creating?
- At purchase, yes: you pay for the goodwill or the shares. But you buy immediate revenue, a customer base and proven processes. Relative to the risk, a takeover is often the better deal — banks know it and finance takeovers more readily than creations.
- What support for a business takeover?
- ACRE (partial contribution exemption), ARCE (unemployment benefits paid as capital), tax exemptions in FRR areas, honour loans from Initiative France and Réseau Entreprendre, Bpifrance guarantees. Most can be combined — check the zoning of the target town on our Grants pages.