Business Acquisition

A very powerful way to grow your business is to acquire. You can acquire fixed income, talent, assets, customer base or routes to market – to name a few. A good acquisition can provide a return on investment that would be very difficult to attain through organic growth.

So why don’t more businesses acquire? Our research has told us that:

• They just don’t have the time: they’re too busy working in their business, getting bogged down in the day-to-day running of the business.
• They find it hard enough managing their own business, let alone another company that might be set up completely different.
• They haven’t identified the key criteria by which the acquisition target will be assessed. They don’t know where to go to find acquisition targets.
• They don’t know the acquisition process.
• They don’t know how to present the business case to access the funding available.
• Often, they don’t have the confidence to liaise with the professional advisors and stakeholders.
• They don’t know how to integrate the target post acquisition.
• At Mustard, we’ve undertaken scores of successful acquisitions and have investigated a large number of potential targets on behalf of our clients.