Fit4Sale
About
If you are planning to exit your business within the next five years, Fit 4 Sale takes you through the steps to maximising the business value while making your working life less stressful and more enjoyable.
What
Fit 4 Sale is a flexible, individualised programme to significantly increase your business value, while lowering pre-exit business risk. It is tailored to the individual needs and drivers of each business across many industries.
When?
Business owners need time working “on” as well as “in” the business. Your holistic perspective will develop strategies for improvement, working with our operational experts
Our consultative sessions can be on a regularly scheduled or as-needs basis will link directly to your financial goals and targets.
Where?
A blend of face-to-face or Zoom meetings depending on location or confidentiality.
How?
Groves & Partners engage with operational experts in all aspects of business be it branding, intellectual property, HR in order to resolve critical issues across your business.
Why?
Too many businesses don’t sell for anywhere near their potential. That’s partly because they don’t attract the most cashed up buyers. Opportunity to achieve drastically more for your business than you would otherwise have believed.
Opportunity to mould your business from something niche to something very sellable.
What
Fit 4 Sale is a flexible, individualised programme to significantly increase your business value, while lowering pre-exit business risk. It is tailored to the individual needs and drivers of each business across many industries.
Where?
A blend of face-to-face or Zoom meetings depending on location or confidentiality.
Why?
Too many businesses don’t sell for anywhere near their potential. That’s partly because they don’t attract the most cashed up buyers. Opportunity to achieve drastically more for your business than you would otherwise have believed.
Opportunity to mould your business from something niche to something very sellable.
When?
Business owners need time working “on” as well as “in” the business. Your holistic perspective will develop strategies for improvement, working with our operational experts
Our consultative sessions can be on a regularly scheduled or as-needs basis will link directly to your financial goals and targets.
How?
Groves & Partners engage with operational experts in all aspects of business be it branding, intellectual property, HR in order to resolve critical issues across your business.
What
Fit 4 Sale is a flexible, individualised programme to significantly increase your business value, while lowering pre-exit business risk. It is tailored to the individual needs and drivers of each business across many industries.
When?
Business owners need time working “on” as well as “in” the business. Your holistic perspective will develop strategies for improvement, working with our operational experts
Our consultative sessions can be on a regularly scheduled or as-needs basis will link directly to your financial goals and targets.
Where?
A blend of face-to-face or Zoom meetings depending on location or confidentiality.
How?
Groves & Partners engage with operational experts in all aspects of business be it branding, intellectual property, HR in order to resolve critical issues across your business.
Why?
Too many businesses don’t sell for anywhere near their potential. That’s partly because they don’t attract the most cashed up buyers. Opportunity to achieve drastically more for your business than you would otherwise have believed.
Opportunity to mould your business from something niche to something very sellable.
Fit4Sale Components
Your Fit 4 Sale journey is customised and takes in the fastest, most cost-efficient path required to multiply your business value. We recognise that business owners are incredibly busy people, so program design caters for your time availability. Typical inclusions in Fit 4 Sale are:
- Getting to know you - Understanding the effectiveness of your current strategies.
- Goal Setting – Translating your goals such as sale price, timeframe, personal financial needs and post-sale involvement into a trackable action plan
- Value Discovery - Discovering & uncovering the hidden value in your business
- Competitive Market Outlook - Reviewing how your market will evolve - and how to capitalise on that.
- Acquirer Review - Creating a list of possible strategic buyers for your business and how to get on their radar.
- Buy vs Build - Considering acquisitions alongside organic growth help you achieve your value goals more easily.
- Planning and Forecasting - Tracking financial performance to ensure that monitored are tracked and their impact on value measured.
- Managing Cash and Debt - Improving your return on assets including managing working capital and use of debt.
- Performance Acceleration - Strengthening your key business assets to improve your financial performance.
- Divestment Opportunities - Evaluating optimal ways to sell a division, brand, location or non core asset to strengthen overall performance.
- Risk Management – Eliminating or mitigating your risks to improve the purchasers view that your profitability is sustainable.
- Optimising Company Structure – This includes reducing your tax liability on sale, accessing grants, managing your intellectual property assets and accessing capital to support growth plans.
- Pre Due Diligence - A pre-sale dry run through to ensure that buyer due diligence has an optimal outcome.
- Systems, Systems – Whether it be databases and systems to manage customers, inventory, employees or finances, buyers pay more for turnkey businesses. With effective management reporting systems.
- Unsolicited Approaches – As your business improves and gets on the industry radar, you’ll received unsolicited approaches to sell. Manage these effectively to further build desirability for your business.
These are just a few ways that Groves & Partners assist with Value Maximisation through Fit 4 Sale program. Client projects to date have also reviewed product / service licensing, alliance development, management buyouts, geographic expansion and franchising.
Why Groves & Partners?
Groves & Partners expert team has seen it all. Having been involved with hundreds of business sales and valuations, we know from experience (sometimes bitter) just what it takes to excite buyers.
- Our team works painstakingly to really understand the nuances of your business and profitably capitalise on them.
- Our close working relationships with your financial, tax and legal advisors ensure that eventual terms will be in your best long term financial interest.
- Our team has the experience to understand and therefore advise businesses at an operational level about value acceleration & retention.
- Our reputation is to run a project once and do it right. With your business there’s no second chances.
- We totally understand the confidentiality aspect and guide you through the best steps to take at all times.