We also help you as a successful business owner to retire, prepare your business for an exit, or to scale it up, focus & grow, all as you wish.
We can help you to Effectively Plan for the Exit You Want & all activities required to position your business
for maximum success.
We supply NED (Non Executive Director) resource for when the Board needs strengthening, to gain focus, to improve their ways of working, or gain strategic clarity.
We engage on a full range of M & A activities, as we buy companies ourselves, not just source them for other private investors.
We look for established profitable Businesses,
with £5m-£30m in revenue but more on that below.
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I started my business life as a postman in the Royal Mail many years ago, progressing to Postman Higher Grade, supervisor, First Line Manager, Second Line Manager, working across operational areas (Processing, distribution, delivery, subway, station, Delivery Area Manager support, QA, Projects and Programmes, HR).
After leaving the Royal Mail I started my own consultancy PLG Associates Limited, focused on strategic change management.
As an entrepreneur and private investor, I am always seeking to identify a new investment opportunity, a business with:
-- owners who are open to change and recognise the need to change and grow their business
-- a management team in place who are working well but need that next step up, a step change in their capability
-- a sales pipeline being continually fed through dedicated salespeople who are passionate about their product(s)
Read more below.
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Once our value creation objectives have been achieved at the end of the holding period, we aim to realise returns by selling our interest in the company or asset.
At this time we may offer this as a first opportunity to the management board if there is interest in a Leveraged Management Buy Out (LMBO) or Buy In (LMBI), and can help the management team through this process.
We are interested in building our portfolio of businesses across different industry sectors and will consider any business that meets the following criteria:
- has an established management team
- has a founder and owner that wishes to exit the business for all the right reasons
- does not have any hidden mines or bombshells
- has a developed sales pipeline
- has a turnover of over £5m and ideally, closer to £10m
- would benefit from an independent perspective and leadership or guidance within the Executive Leadership Team
Our Objectives
We will make an investment by buying the business, holding it for a period that typically lasts five to eight years.
Throughout this period, we jointly develop a strong alignment of interest between us as equity owners and the management team, as we ensure we are both focused on growth, sustainable value creation and stable ownership.
We work with Business Owners who want to exit their business but have not yet started to get it to the point where it's value is maximised, and we have the capability to buy the business as-is, as well as work jointly to develop it's value optimising it for the planned exit point.
Call us now to start the discussions, all without obligation.
Buying a Business involves you as the prospective purchaser, going through a clear and transparent process with the Business Owner and their business, to buy their business after satisfying yourself that it ticks all your boxes. It means you have to know what you are looking for, have a set of criteria for it to fulfil, and have the capacity as well as capability to take effective control, fill ownership of the business.
And then the hard work begins, where you may need to turn it around, to breathe life into it, to give it a new sense of purpose and vitality, all through its people and organisation.
There are literally hundreds of thousands of businesses that change hands every year and with the recent impacts of the COVID lockdown period still being felt, this number could well increase.
We can help you identify your next target business and structure a deal for its purchase. We can work with you (or you work with us) to start, continue and complete the deal for mutual benefit. Contact us to find out how.
We relish situations like this, where a big upfront cost is being faced and can work with you to creatively address it and secure your business purchase, enabling control and ownership to be transferred.
This is not a barrier. Call us to find out how.
Regretting the decision you have just made to buy after completing the deal does happen from time to time. If the deal proves it was not right for you, it can be a bitter pill to swallow if you have to close the business down and suffer from all the extra costs involved, all from your own pocket.
Call us to find out how we can work with you to resolve this sticky situation, how we can put in a different solution, or even buy the company and take it off your hands.
Being passionate about a business and really motivated to improving it is great, but not nearly enough to actually make those changes. Having the right skills, knowledge, experience and expertise is just as and probably even more important. If you have any doubts, life as a Business Owner can be lonely. For obvious reasons you cannot talk about problems with your staff or management team. Perhaps you need an Executive Coach, which we can supply.
Or perhaps you need someone to come in, give you the help and security you need, to build your confidence and assurance that you are on the right path, that things are getting better and you are achieving what you have wanted to.
We can help in both situations and any in between. Call us now to find out how.
pl@plga.co.uk
Sherborne House, Humber Avenue, Coventry, CV1 2AQ
9:00 - 18:00 I can be available after hours if the need is urgent enough
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