How To Prepare a Business for Sale During the Covid Pandemic: Things to Consider The M&A market continues to be buoyant, with buyers actively seeking out investments. In the main, this is due to trade buyers need to make acquisitions to shift their business models and create scale and there is private capital looking…
M&A Jargon and Its Place For those of you who do not know, a Babel Fish comes from the Douglas Adams comedy science fiction book “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”. In the book, he describes a bright yellow fish that, if placed in your ear, can automatically translate any language into your native tongue.…
Business Post-Covid: Remain Positive, React Accordingly and We are Usually Successful I was listening to some old songs over the weekend that got me thinking. The lyrics “The road I must travel”, from Mr Mister’s cheerful 1986 song entitled Kyrie Eleison reminds me of the current challenges ahead. What is going to happen to business…
The M&A (Mergers and Acquisitions) strategy in both a volatile market and a dynamic market should remain the central theme (Kevin Uphill ‘Creating Competitive Advantage’): Look at who your future customers will be. Take time out to think and research to lead ahead, rather than manage. What niche can you own, where you create pull…
Business Sales During and After Covid-19: What To Expect and Our Predictions There is no doubt we are at the beginning of this journey and we don’t know how long it’s going to last, or how far into the future there will be a knock-on effect on society and the economy. What I can tell…
Entrepreneur Lifestyle in The Age of Covid-19: Time to Reflect It is said there are two certainties in life, death and taxes; now we must add Coronavirus. This new certainty will be with us for some time, and with it comes economic damage and a detrimental social impact, and part of that social impact may…
The Importance of a Covid Business Strategy The interplay of how we protect lives versus the economy is unprecedented, yet essential. When this crisis finishes the economic fall-out will be huge, with a real drop in gross domestic product. In the 2009 credit crash, the UK saw a drop in GDP by 5% and this…
What exactly are the the Entrepreneurs Relief changes and what will be the Covid-19 impact on the value of businesses Yes, we should worry, as we aren’t sure if covid-19 can be slowed down. However, if a tidal wave can be reduced to a heavy sea we should not worry. This can happen if…
Entrepreneur’s Relief: What Does the Price Cut Actually Mean for Entrepreneur’s? It looks as if the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, rather predictably, didn’t read my article “Could entrepreneurs’ relief be a benefit to the economy rather than a drain on the treasury?”. Announced this afternoon in the budget statement, Entrepreneur’s Relief (ER) – the relief…
