Through a controlled process: no public listing, a blind profile that does not identify the company, signed confidentiality agreements before any detail is shared, and staged disclosure that keeps names back until late.
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Confidentiality is the reason most manufacturing sales are run as private processes rather than listings. Buyers receive a blind summary with sector, geography, and size ranges only. Interested parties sign a confidentiality agreement before receiving the company name or financials. Customer names are typically masked as Customer A, Customer B, and so on until diligence is well advanced, and customer calls happen only after a letter of intent, often with the seller on the line. Plant tours are scheduled outside production hours or framed to staff in a way that does not signal a sale. In a metro this interconnected, where buyers, lenders, and competitors often share advisors, the discipline matters more than in most markets.