Cashing In!
Selling Your Company For Maximum Profit
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Opportunities to Buy?
We
have been approached over the past six months by huge numbers of
prospective buyers of struggling competitors who are asking about the
potential to "bail out" these struggling competitors by merger or
purchase. There are more companies today than in many years that
are now thinking they might be stronger and better positioned to
weather a sagging economy if they were a part of something larger and
better capitalized. This can be a great time for opportune
acquisitions, and today's article is written with the intent to help in
those efforts. The most common questions we hear are: 1.
If I have a competitor who is struggling, how can I best approach
them to pursue the possibility of acquisition? This can be a great time to make a move toward potential additions, but
the initial approach can be critical to the seller's receptivity toward
putting something together. The initial call................ ....Read moreWritten
by Deborah Douglas, Managing Director of the Douglas Group, a St.
Louis-based private investment banking firm which represents sellers of
middle-market companies. Ms. Douglas is also author of "Cashing
In!" For more information, contact her at
ddouglas@douglasgroup.net or call 314-991-5150 |
Thomas Deans, Ph.D.
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A New Way of Celebrating
the Family in Business
A staggering 90% of all US and Canadian businesses are family
owned and according to the US Federal Reserve, over the next 30 years
an unprecedented number of these 22 million family businesses worth more than $10 trillion will transfer when the owners retire or die. According
to a recent government report, 70% of business owners intend to retire
in the next 10 years. But there is a catch and the stakes are high.
The last twenty years has produced smaller families and better educated
children who followed their passions outside of the family business.
How will these factors conspire to affect the ten trillion dollars of
family business wealth that will transfer? The answer lies in...................................Read more |
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created this newsletter to share timely and relevant industry expertise
on buying and selling businesses. Here we share stories, anecdotes, and
expertise in the world of business sales; also known as mergers and
acquisitions. We can also provide other educational resources such as
webinars, audio CDs, industry books, and consultations. We're always
eager for and appreciative of any suggestions or feedback you may have.
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Discusses how to
sell your business for
MAXIMUM PRICE!
Topics include:
Owning a Salable Company
vs. Owning "A Job"
Why & When To Sell
How Competition Increases
Selling Price--Significantly!
The Secret Benefit of the Intermediary Shield
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