This business is a patented, category-creating consumer electronics brand in the personal air-cooling space, available now at a clear discount to its proven earning power. Profitable for roughly 10 years, the brand generated $1.05M to $1.49M in SDE in its healthy years. Trailing-12-month SDE is $859K on $3.21M revenue, and the gap traces to one event. In 2025, the founder sold to a buyer who understocked for the summer peak and raised prices 20% as tariffs hit. That buyer defaulted, and the business returned to the founder in early 2026. Recovery is already on the scoreboard, with Q1 2026 revenue up 20% and quarterly SDE more than doubled before peak season. Partially paid in the failed deal, the founder can sell near the cost of building the business from scratch.

The moat is durable. Every product runs on a proprietary patented cartridge material that no rival has matched in 10 years. The brand holds more than 20 IP filings, award-winning product design, gross margins above 74% for five straight years, more than 100,000 active customers, a 100,000-subscriber email list, and 4,000 marketplace reviews. It is the number-one brand in its category in Australia.

For an existing consumer-products operator, the fit is clean. Peak demand runs May through September, counter-seasonal to most consumer goods, so the brand drops onto idle capacity. Logistics is automated across four regional 3PLs, and the favorable overseas factory contract transfers at close. Growth is untouched. An inbound performance-marketing channel already moves hundreds of units per day, retail is the category's largest unentered channel, and a manufacturing-ready product waits on the road map.  


Key Benefits:

$859K TTM SDE, Priced Near Build Cost: This is a 10-year-profitable, patented category creator that earned $1.05M–$1.49M SDE in healthy years that is on the market at a discount after a 2025 buyer defaulted.

Q1 2026 SDE More Than Doubled YoY: Revenue is up 20%, and quarterly profit is up over 100%, since the founder retook control, with the recovery landing before the peak summer season even started.

Patented Moat Unmatched in 10 Years: A proprietary patented cartridge material out-cools every competitor, backed by more than 20 IP filings that protect the only real brand among low-cost copycats.

Over 100K Customers and 4K Reviews: A built-in audience with full marketplace Brand Registry and Enhanced Brand Content is paired with a 100K-subscriber email list ready to remarket and cross-sell.

Counter-Seasonal Bolt-On: The summer peak (May–September) runs opposite most consumer goods. Four-region 3PL logistics is automated, and the overseas factory contract (net-45) transfers at close.

High-Performance Inbound Channel: A performance-marketing channel that arrived unsolicited and overperformed every expectation, moving hundreds of units per day, proves online demand that the seller never actively pursued.

Retail is the Largest Untapped Channel: Most home-appliance buyers still shop in-store, and the brand is absent from big chains. The category's leading rival was built on retail.

Over 74% Gross Margins, Premium Line: Margins held above 74% for five straight years across an in-house-manufactured $99–$199 product line with internationally recognized design awards.