Grooming Your Business For Sale

The Value Improvement Proposition
The Business Sale Report has teamed up with a leading practitioner to offer you a way of raising the valuation that a prospective purchaser puts on your company, enabling you to realise not only hidden value and increased profitability pre-sale, but present your business to potential purchasers in optimum condition. This will increase price/earnings multiples and reduce their ability to leverage negative or non-performing areas of your company.

Method
The Value Improvement Scheme works by looking for opportunities to reduce operating cost and to improve revenue. But the emphasis is on more than simple "cost-cutting". While we seek to eliminate costs that add no real value to the business, we may actually recommend increased spend on critical areas that can really drive profitability. We also cast a strategic eye over your company’s customer base, routes to market and product positioning. We look for quick-wins that can improve short-term viability, as well as longer-term initiatives that will build value ready for sale.
We would expect to work with your company for some months (or even a year or two) prior to it actually coming to sale. In this way any value improvement initiatives we implement will be treated as normal and embedded practices by sale date, and a potential purchaser will not be allowed to ignore them in establishing sale price.
Most of our fees are success based, calculated as a proportion of the increased value, and can be financed by increments in your cash flow, and not from existing flows that would obviously be an additional burden on your company.

Key Benefits

• Having your company truly fit for sale, quicker and easier to sell
• Clear and tangible increases in the value of your company
• Gains in profitability pre-sale
• Minimum impact on cash flow in financing these value improvements
  

First Steps
Upon invitation we will undertake an initial review of your company aimed at establishing the areas and levels of value improvement we can deliver. Following this we would expect to be formally engaged upon agreed terms and conditions. This review will be free of charge if it produces no opportunity for value improvement, or it does produce opportunities and you do engage us, otherwise a small fee will apply.

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