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Exit Strategies

Time to make an exit?

With trade buyers and PE firms on the prowl, make sure you know how to sell for the right price.

Exit Strategies

Exit Strategies

Swift exits

With aggressive trade buyers on the prowl and private equity firms expanding their portfolios, GrowthBusiness looks at how you can sell your business for the right price.

Exit Strategies

Dealing with unhappy shareholders

Spurious allegations of ‘boardroom bullying’ from minority shareholders seeking a payout are on the increase.

Exit Strategies

Giving it to charity

When growing businesses give to charity, it’s often a more personal affair than the social responsibility activities of large corporates.

Exit Strategies

Family Fortunes

Family businesses have suffered from a stereotype of crusty conservatism, where the benefit of strong traditional values is seen as being outweighed by an unwillingness to take risks or change until it is too late.

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Not so clean exits

The M&A market was not kind to sellers last year. James Harris finds out whether conditions are likely to improve in 2010.

Exit Strategies

Ten ways to maximise the value of your business

Conventional wisdom states that business owners preparing their company for an exit should concentrate on growing profits.

Exit Strategies

Delivering a smooth exit

There are many pitfalls in selling a business. Tony Hayday, CEO of The Software Bureau, talks to M&A about making sure you get the right price

Exit Strategies

Ten ways to maximise the value of your business

Conventional wisdom states that business owners preparing their company for an exit should concentrate on growing profits.

Exit Strategies

Delivering a smooth exit

There are many pitfalls in selling a business. Tony Hayday, CEO of The Software Bureau, talks to M&A about making sure you get the right price

Exit Strategies

Pre-pack deals aren’t all bad

Pre-pack administration deals, in which a buyer is lined up before a struggling business goes into administration, have been given a bad press of late. David Moore, a partner at business recovery firm Begbies Traynor, argues that this is unjustified.

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Leaving the AIM market

Robert Tyerman reports on the numerous and varied reasons why an increasing number of companies are currently choosing to exit AIM

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Asking for a ‘cash out’ deal

Whether an investor wants to come on board or is seeking an exit, remixing the company’s capital base may allow you to get some money of your own in the bank and strengthen the business as a whole.

Exit Strategies

There’s still money in IT

The threat of recession hasn’t stopped the world’s leading IT companies snapping up promising young ventures.