A True ERP solution without ‘Betting the Farm’ and ditching your window fabrication software It’s a dilemma we see in successful growing businesses:- Your business has grown and needs integrated systems – one set of data from prospect to invoice You need Joined up systems that don’t rely on constantly re-keying the same information (or what you hope is the same !) Spreadsheets and separate pieces of software that don’t…
At the risk of upsetting some ‘players’ it seems that what was a huge issue in 2008 when this article came out is a huge issue now and behaviours are not changing (why would they?). For fabricator just substitute whatever business you fancy, the principles remain sound! Darwin And The Survival Of The Least Fit A very experienced senior manager said to me this week that he was seeing…
A few days ago we visited Franciaflex a MAC Group business based in Rennes in France. MAC are a significant customer of 360 Innovations the Canadian Software supplier that some of you may have seen at Fit Show this year and who we helped bring to the UK. 360 has more than a thousand users in North America and Europe, and is the world leader with its software solutions for a variety of…
We are seeing a definite upturn in M&A activity in the Building Products sector with a number of deals done at the ‘headline’ level but we are also seeing the same trend with smaller businesses where the timing is seen to be right for an exit. There are buyers in the market and as the sector matures shareholders many of whom have spent a working lifetime building value in their…
Merger Acquisition And All That We’ve been around in the sector since 1999 and the principals at MBA have more years than we care to count in the building products sector and the window industry in particular so it was always going to be the case that in working with clients at every stage of the business cycle we’d be asked about buying or selling businesses. We’ve worked with clients…
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