It made sense, particularly in today’s changing and challenging economic times, to bring these two groups together to be better able to serve the full range of sizes and types of businesses located on Florida’s west coast, from north of Tampa south to Naples, in addition to those in Central Florida. For firms engaged in the brokering of business sales and acquisitions making a decision to move from one market to another, for example from Main Street to Mid-Market or from Mid-market to Main Street, requires much more than the will to do so: each market demands skills and knowledge that are unique to their respective markets, skills that can only be acquired with extensive training and experience working in those markets. This is the founding principle behind our merger.