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Positioning Business Owners to Exit Wealthier
M&A Advisory
for Privately Held Companies
Buyers might dangle a theoretical price for your firm, but they'll only pay that minus whatever they can find wrong with your business, and there's always something to find.
Narrowing the gap depends on how exit-ready your firm is. Our exit readiness work spans 8 dimensions: 6 of them customer-facing and 2 internal-facing.
How We Help You...
Most clients opt for both phases: get your firm exit-ready, then take it to market. This enables us to find and close the gaps a buyer will find during diligence and leverage against you at the deal table.
Double-Digit Impact
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Turned a CPG co's -6% revenue trend into 13% growth in 8 months
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Flipped a manufacturer's -5% revenue trend to 6% growth (an 11% pt swing) in 4 months
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Grew billings for a $45M ad agency by 25% in 3 years
We Help You...
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Know Your Customers Better
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Find New Ones
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Sell More to Them
Trusted by
Clients
20+ engagements across consumer products / retail, marketing agencies, private equity
Consumer Goods DTC / e-comm Retail
Marketing Agencies
Private Equity,
Financial
Work
Click on any of our clients' logos to learn more (double-click on mobile).
What We Do
For companies that need to grow revenue -- and associated earnings -- whether corporations or Private Equity firms pursuing M&A (mergers, acquisitions, divestitures / carve-outs) – we provide…
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Revenue growth strategy spanning “The 6 Ps”
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Promotion – ad message, Amazon keyword engineering, budget optimization
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Price optimization / maximization
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Placement / distribution, go-to-market channels, "e-comm"onomics audits
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Product innovation, launches, SKU optimization / rationalization
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Positioning, architecture of brands, products, services
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People & processes, org design effectiveness / efficiencies
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M&A-related services
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Commercial Due Diligence
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Market size, growth rate (TAM, SAM)
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Commercial diagnostics / analytics, marketing & sales audits
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Value Creation Plans
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Post-merger integration
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Consumer / customer research (quantitative & qualitative)
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Interim marketing / commercial leadership
We start by understanding how your business makes money: by selling what to whom, how often, and at what prices. Then we advise how to grow most profitably, irrespective of the industry's underlying growth rate. We utilize specialists and no brick-and-mortar offices, so that you get all the best, current thinking from our work with large companies, at a price even medium-size businesses can afford.
Affiliated with Manufacturers Resource Center
Who We Are
Meet Michael.
Unparalleled 360º view of the marketplace stemming from operating roles with #1-in-their-field companies, with a track record of driving revenue growth from every side of the table:
Michael is a citizen of the U.S., Canada, and United Kingdom.
His passions outside of work are music and sports. He performs acoustic guitar solo and as part of indie/folk-rock cover band The Queen's English, landing ~100 gigs through marketing outreach. He's also a hockey fanatic trapped in a basketball player’s body.