Beginning a rollup strategy?

November 20, 2025

by a searcher from Emory University - Goizueta Business School in Atlanta, GA, USA

After improving our first acquisition over the past 2 years, we are now ready start looking for rollup acquisition opportunities in 2026. This would be our first integration. Does anyone have any advice on what activities we should focus on integrating after acquiring additional businesses so that we can eventually (~10 years) be sold as a single business with multiple locations? Any pitfalls or challenges we should be aware of?

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Reply by a searcher
from University of San Francisco in New York, NY, USA

^redacted‌ I'd be happy to chat. We've done 200+ add-on acquisitions for our portfolio companies and have developed a detailed integration plan for each company. Feel free to DM or email redacted Look forward to connecting

Reply by an intermediary
from Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA, USA

Hey Ben, looking forward to diving deeper into this with you tomorrow. Each acquisition may have nuances to it. Integrate only what's necessary and/or provides simplicity or true synergies. Minimize any interruptions to clients/customers. Key things to integrate/align are financials/accounting. be on the same platform and being able to have clear visibility into the businesses. Same payroll and HRIS/benefits platforms is also ideal. Consolidated insurance plan. There's an opportunity to get some real savings (true cash in pocket) from consolidating/integrated these costs. in-house, align on policies, training, in-house processes, etc. Any customer facing changes need to be assessed first. Pave America is one great example where it is a roll-up of paving companies which each kept their own branding. They eventually added "A Pave America Company" as a sub-brand to each entity.

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