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Manufacturing

Customer concentration in a specialist manufacturer

A buyer was close to agreeing a price on a specialist manufacturer. The earnings looked consistent and the multiple was within the range seen in the sector. The question was whether those earnings were as durable as the historic accounts suggested.

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Sector
Manufacturing
Scale
Turnover around £6.4m
Stage
Pre-heads of terms

B2B services

Owner dependency in a business services company

A profitable services business with strong repeat revenue was on the market. The numbers were clean and the buyer's main concern was the transition: almost every client relationship and most of the technical delivery sat with the founder.

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Sector
B2B services
Scale
Turnover around £2.1m
Stage
Heads of terms under negotiation

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