Profitable Publishing Company for Sale in Saint Paul, United States

Company makes and distributes maps of visitor orientation. Our maps have been the favorite of major corporations and brands in tourism, hospitality, conventions and meetings, universities medical centers, real estate.

Note: current annual sales reflects partial staffing of only 1 market.

At its peak, we generated more than USD 1 million from the Hawaii alone, and USD 250,000 revenue from mid-market Minnesota. Our sales models can be duplicated in multiple markets, and has artwork for all major convention cities in the United States.

This family-owned business is currently in a holding pattern, maintaining current clients but not pursuing new business. Challenges include: Hiring and managing remote salesforce and the personal circumstances of the owner.

Our current and past clients include Marriott, Hilton, Embassy Suites, Wyndham, United Airlines, and American Express.

In addition to our printed visitor maps we have proprietary virtual concierge software and web apps that are reliable and more accessible than the services offered by major competitors.

Company has 3 major revenue streams:

- We provide free, customized maps to hotels or other tourism organisations. We sell advertising spaces inside the maps to the preferred vendors of the client.

- We sell custom maps directly to hospitality and tourism companies that prefer to distribute maps free of advertising.

- We receive a commission on all activity bookings made through our web-based virtual concierge applications.

We are a family-owned company with a proven business model. We are looking for distribution partners to take on sales and distribution for horizontal or vertical markets. We choose this direction for our business rather than directly managing the national sales staff.

Our assets include website, domain, client database, stock.

Owner has more than 40 years of experience in this business.

Detailed print maps, maps for small to medium-sized tourist destinations, maps specially designed for the travel and hospitality industries and web-based mobile app allows hotels to direct their guests to purchase decisions before they arrive and during their stay.

Copyrights, clients, client lists, inventory, business plans, 2-5 years consulting, production.

Currently operate from home office and rented a small sales office in Hawaii. Some storage of inventory is required, but most storage is provided by our printers.