SDW GROWTH

SDW Growth advises SME business owners how to maximise the value of their business on an exit.

Your Business is probably your most valuable asset. At some point in the future it is likely you will want to sell your business and maximise its value.

SDW Growth specialises in helping business owners achieve this.

It starts with a valuation that will help you understand the value of your business today, why it attracts that value and what can be done to grow its value over the next few years.

What happens after that is up to you.

Contact Us Today To Get Your Business Valued Together with A Report As To How This Value Can Be Grown

Our Business Value Growth Blueprint

Value your business today :
Establish a benchmark value today.
Identify the value growth levers.

Prepare a plan to grow business value :
Each entrepreneur has different ambitions.
It’s important to understand what yours are together with your time horizons.
Together we can develop a plan to achieve your goals.
Part of this may include your own acquisitions.
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Monitor the plan and recalibrate :
This is the critical step as it is rare to get the plan right first time.
Monitor the plan, finding out what went right, what went wrong, and recalibrating is essential.
The quality of reporting matters. Speed, timeliness and content. Having good reporting not only helps build value, but makes an exit much easier.

Execute exit :
Every acquirer likes to buy off market - selling off market is a mistake and can leave significant money on the table.
Equally pushing out the Information Memorandum to too many potential acquirers is a mistake - businesses are not interested in participating in a Dutch auction.
Identifying a select number of quality acquirers is key and by the time the decision to go to market has been made, those potential acquirers should already be known.

Contact Us Today To Get Your Business Valued Together with A Report As To How This Value Can Be Grown

Exit

This is the event you have been planning for. The moment to maximize the value of years of dedication and hard work.

SDW Growth can manage this for you. For a well-executed exit the following will already have happened :
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Consideration of type of acquirer – Trade, Private Equity, Management Buy Out, International Acquirer’s etc.
A list of potential acquirers has been drawn up.
A good quality data room will be in place with reliable financial information ready for due diligence.
A memorandum of information will have been completed.
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Key Contracts – Customers, Suppliers, Staff, IP etc. will be in place.
Tax planning in place to minimize tax exposure.
The Business will have been grown in a way that attracts premium valuation from acquirers and information presented is robust to avoid chips on price.

Experience of selling businesses gets a valuation higher and makes the process quicker and less expensive.

SDW Growth will have worked with you for some time in preparing for this and will be well placed to execute the best exit for you.

Contact Us Today To Get Your Business Valued Together with A Report As To How This Value Can Be Grown

About SDW Growth

Planning for an exit helps maximise an exit.

Too many entrepreneurs leave money on the table when selling their business. I have grown businesses, bought businesses and sold businesses.

When buying businesses – it is astonishing the bargains that can be picked up because of a lack of planning, expertise and quality advice on the part of the seller.

I have worked as CFO with owner managed businesses, growing and selling businesses creating enormous value for the entrepreneurs.

I have also worked for Private Equity who specialise in acquiring businesses and increasing their value over a relatively short period of time. I can bring the tried and tested techniques they use, together with a real world experience of working with entrepreneurs creating significant value, to help you substantially accelerate your business value.

Simon Weaver.

Contact Us Today To Get Your Business Valued Together with A Report As To How This Value Can Be Grown

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Preparing for an exit in the future, today, is the right thing to do.

We are happy to talk without obligation. If nothing else, you'll get another perspective on the many options open to you.

A thought to take away. A key advantage business owners have over private equity is that we set the time horizons. Private Equity is in a rush to build value and create a return in a fixed time horizon. Mistakes are not allowed as it is somebody else's money. Business owners do not have this pressure but that is no reason not to use the tools of the very smart people in Private Equity to significantly accelerate their own value creation.

If this is of interest and you would like to learn more, feel free to either drop us an email at simon@sdwgrowth.com or call me direct on +‪44 7724 841508‬

Email simon@sdwgrowth.com or call directly on 07724 841508