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Exit Strategy: A practical guide to selling your business - How to sell a company for the best price and ride into the sunset
A practical guide to selling your business. - How to sell your business for the best price and ride into the sunset!
There are over 2 million private limited companies in the UK, but many business owners spend years learning how to run and grow a business, yet fail to plan how to sell up and exit. The cost can be significant leaving owners unable to capitalise on their most valuable asset, the business, and squandering years of hard work.
Planning, preparation, recruiting good intermediaries, finding a quality buyer, negotiating the best price, dealing with accountants and concerned staff and avoiding potential traps - issues that require careful attention are all examined in Exit Strategy. Plus the advantages and disadvantages of options such as flotation, management buy out and straight sale of the business are explored.
There are over 2 million private limited companies in the UK, but many business owners spend years learning how to run and grow a business, yet fail to plan how to sell up and exit. The cost can be significant leaving owners unable to capitalise on their most valuable asset, the business, and squandering years of hard work.
Planning, preparation, recruiting good intermediaries, finding a quality buyer, negotiating the best price, dealing with accountants and concerned staff and avoiding potential traps - issues that require careful attention are all examined in Exit Strategy. Plus the advantages and disadvantages of options such as flotation, management buy out and straight sale of the business are explored.
- GenresBusiness
160 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 31, 2006
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About the author
Graham Watkins
20 books13 followersHi. I'm Graham Watkins and I have spent the last few years researching welsh legends and myths. It has been a wonderful project and great fun as I explored rugged mountains, mysterious castles, enchanting waterfalls and golden beaches to discover the tales that have been handed down from generation to generation. Wales is a land of mystery and being a Celtic race the Welsh are fantastic story tellers.
Earlier in my life, I was a ships engineer and travelled across the world. When I got married I had a choice; return to sea or stay home with my new bride. I stayed and went into sales. In 1989 I started my own company and it prospered.
I sold the business in 2003 and, with my wife, ran away to a rambling farmhouse high in the Brecon Beacons in Wales. I learnt a lot selling the business and decided to write a book called 'Exit Strategy' explaining how I did it. That's how I started writing. Today, I am a writer, hobby farmer and explorer. It's all been great fun and the story isn't over yet. My latest book 'Birth of a Salesman' has just been published and there are more to follow. Watch out for 'Blood and Dragons - The History of Carmarthenshire and the Gower.'
My current project 'The Iron Masters', is a historical novel, my first, chronicling the life of Nye Vaughn, a farm boy who becomes the most powerful arms manufacturer in the world. His cannons enabled Nelson to win the Battle of Trafalgar and cleared the field of French infantry at Waterloo.
Earlier in my life, I was a ships engineer and travelled across the world. When I got married I had a choice; return to sea or stay home with my new bride. I stayed and went into sales. In 1989 I started my own company and it prospered.
I sold the business in 2003 and, with my wife, ran away to a rambling farmhouse high in the Brecon Beacons in Wales. I learnt a lot selling the business and decided to write a book called 'Exit Strategy' explaining how I did it. That's how I started writing. Today, I am a writer, hobby farmer and explorer. It's all been great fun and the story isn't over yet. My latest book 'Birth of a Salesman' has just been published and there are more to follow. Watch out for 'Blood and Dragons - The History of Carmarthenshire and the Gower.'
My current project 'The Iron Masters', is a historical novel, my first, chronicling the life of Nye Vaughn, a farm boy who becomes the most powerful arms manufacturer in the world. His cannons enabled Nelson to win the Battle of Trafalgar and cleared the field of French infantry at Waterloo.
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August 23, 2018
Good topic, good storytelling but seemed like a long book built from a minmal level of experience, but there are so few books on the topic, it is wirth a read
November 21, 2021
Very basic.
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