New Bizben Top-ten Search Rankings: Gas Stations Lead

July 2, 2008 - PRLog -- The rising price of gasoline might account for the fact that the gas stations for sale currently offered for sale in California received the most inquiries of all the postings searched, during the week ended June 30, on BizBen-Businesses for Sale in California (www.bizben.com), the state's leading online marketplace for buyers and sellers of small and mid-market companies.

“People may figure the way to beat the high-cost of driving is to buy your own gas station,” said Peter Siegel, MBA, CEO and founder of BizBen. Siegel added that three of the top 10 searches on the site during the past week involved the auto industry, with car washes receiving the second highest number of search requests, and auto repair shops ranking number 10.

Only one category in the broad food service industry-- fast food franchises --generated enough searches to be listed in the top ten. This category was the sixth most frequently searched during the period.

The top ten search rankings are published weekly by BizBen so that visitors--including business buyers, business sellers, business brokers and a number of companies serving this industry--can track the popularity of various small businesses offered for sale in California from week to week.

“This is a valuable resource for professionals and participants in this industry who need to determine the trends so that they can make intelligent business decisions with up-to-the-minute information,” Siegel noted.

Complete top-ten rankings were:

1. Gas stations
2. Car washes
3. Manufacturing related
4. Postal, mail box centers
5. Spas: medical and beauty
6. Fast food restaurant franchises
7. Liquor stores
8. Adult day care centers
9. Hotels/Motels
10. Auto repair shops

www.BizBen.com has been California's exclusive source of small business sales statistics for more than 10 years, and since 1994, has provided one-stop internet shopping for thousands of small and mid-market California business sales. The site also provides buyers hoping to acquire a business, owners wanting to sell a business, and business brokers with one of the Internet's most robust resources for information, ideas, and services needed by entrepreneurs involved in business transactions.

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