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What business brokers are saying about the prospects for 2010
How will the market for businesses for sale will fare in 2010? We have talked to our contacts in the industry and have put together a few opinions from the professionals in the business No related posts....
No increase announced in UK capital gains tax
Entrepreneurs considering selling their businesses over the next year are breathing a sigh of relief today as the chancellor, Alistair Darling, held back from lifting capital gains tax rates in today’s Pre-Budget Report. Expectations in many qua...
UK business valuations rising again
During the third quarter of 2009 the Private Company Price Index (PCPI), which gives an indication of the average multiple of after tax profits at which private firms are sold for, rose again – much to the delight of anyone looking to sell a bu...
Selling a magazine title
If you have a successful and profitable magazine title to sell, and a genuine reason for selling it, you are likely to have very few problems doing so. Buyers want to see forecastable future cash flows and authentic reasons for selling. In these ...
How to sell a business in a recession
Common logic dictates that it’s better to buy than to sell during a recession, when prices are low. That’s certainly the logic that prevails in the property market, but is it also true of selling a business...
Luke Johnson interview coming soon
In this month’s (June 2009) issue of the Business Sale Report, we feature an exclusive interview with Luke Johnson, the serial entrepreneur who made his first big move with the purchase, with Hugh Osmond, of Pizza Express back in 1993 for £15 ...
Industrial property company set to sell assets
UK warehouses company Brixton is reportedly looking to sell off some of its major assets, in a bid to raise cash to pay off debts. The company owns warehouses at Park Royal and Heathrow, though it is unclear at this stage as to which properties will...
Property businesses for sale as credit crunch hits real estate sector hard
It has been predicted by business-recovery experts that numbers of insolvencies in the commercial-property market will dramatically increase in 2009. Begbies Traynor has predicted that 1,600 British property companies could go under this year alone...
Low value of sterling can be good news for those looking to buy or sell businesses
Is there a silver lining to the low value of Sterling that has hit the headlines in recent days? According to experts - our exports will be cheaper and so boost manufacturing, companies with foreign earnings will be quids in, and we will see more of...
Pre-pack insolvency can be best..
Pre-pack insolvency practice has had much bad press of late. Tenon Recovery has come out fighting and said that it can help to avoid the “domino effect” of suppliers to the business going bust. Critics have argued it has allowed owners of busin...
Current state of the M&A market
A look at the current state of the M&A market for small and medium sized businesses Up until this summer, the small to mid-sized business M&A market has not been severely affected by the problems in the financial markets. However, as the ...
UK technology, media & telecoms industry still attracting interest.
According to Freshfields Bruckhaus & Deringer, up until September 2008, the UK technology, media & telecoms (TMT) sector has attracted the second strongest and most widespread M&A investment since the dotcom boom. Only 2006 had higher...
Entrepreneurs could be caught out by capital gains tax loophole
So how did businesses take advantage of the 10% rate of capital gain tax payable on the selling of a business after the 5th April this year? Linda Bennett of LK Bennett shoes and the potato farmer behind Tyrells Crisps had a neat trick. They effect...
Chapter 11-style insolvency rules?
Now that the Summer of gloom is in full swing, some business sectors are looking forward to a bumper Autumn!... Insolvency experts and turnaround specialists are gearing up for a surge in corporate debt problems which they expect will generate the bi...
The Sage of Omaha on why people want to sell businesses to him
Couldn’t resist repeating the latest comments from Warren Buffett about the reasons people want to sell their businesses to him and his Berkshire Hathaway investment vehicle. “Think of the business as a work of art. You can sell it to Ber...
Earnouts - key issues to consider
When buying or selling a business, there is frequently a gap between the seller’s perception of the business’s potential worth and the price a purchaser is prepared to pay based on actual performance. One way of addressing this is to include an e...
Caveat Emptor
Buying a business is not like buying a car. Get it wrong with a business and it is likely to seriously hurt your wallet. So how can you tell if you are looking at one where the wheels might fall off? Nick Pritchard from Transaxman ltd has helped u...
Entrepreneurs’ relief - the latest concession from Alistair Darling
First there was retirement relief, then there was business asset taper relief, and now there is entrepreneurs’ relief. No doubt the next government will try something else! The latest relief has been introduced following the uproar from small ...
Chancellor announces CGT changes for business owners
Alistair Darling today issued a major concession to the forthcoming capital gains tax changes due to come into effect on 6th April. A new 10% Entrepreneur’s Relief is to introduced (similar to the old Retirement Relief), for business owners sellin...
