Empire Business Associates, Inc/ CAPITAL BUSINESS SOLUTIONS, INC. THE RESULTS DRIVEN INDUSTRY LEADER Empire Business Associates, Inc. was founded in 1981 and has 85 offices in the United States and in sixteen countries around the globe. These figures change constantly. During fiscal year 2005 ten offices were added nationally and four new internationally including England and Ireland. This is a strategic advantage that no other brokerage house can offer. Each office has access to Empire’s extensive corporate data base of pre-qualified buyers and private and commercial investor equity groups. This affords our sellers immediate and global exposure to their businesses facilitating a rapid transaction cycle. In 2005 Empire merged with Capital Business Solutions in order to take advantage of their vast experience dealing in the mid-sized market place. Capital specializes in business mergers and acquisitions. The business structure is well suited for privately owned and managed companies as well as subsidiary/division spin-offs of publicly traded companies. Corporately we are associated with over forty professional business listing services and no less than thirty five hundred equity groups. The professional staff within the Capital/Empire family is truly impressive. The South Florida Division boasts a senior marketing executive with thirty five plus years of experience from two fortune five hundred companies, a forensic accountant, three CPA’s, mortgage brokers, urban planners and sales professionals joining us from many varying industry segments. We have become the “RESULTS DRIVEN INDUSTRY LEADER” by pooling the teams experience and applying it to every business listing. The corporation’s core competency involves the selling of companies between the $100,000 to $100,000,000 range and land and land development opportunities up to and exceeding the $200,000,000 range. Our sales transaction experts will assist in positioning your business for sale, negotiating the contract and will in structuring the closing. Unlike other M & A Specialist we do not require any upfront fees. Our corporate policy is to be compensated strictly on a “Payment based on Performance only, i.e. a success fee.” This philosophy has Empire rated the number one business brokerage house by Success Magazine for two consecutive years. Other valuable services offered by CBS/EBA includes: complete franchise development, sales and marketing, business valuations and financing including SBA pre-qualification within seventy-two hours of all documentation received in-house.