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Grow Your Business | Sell Your Business

Our focus and expertise lies in helping smaller businesses grow profitably and to develop attractive exit opportunities.

Business Growth Strategies

Business Growth Strategies

There is no denying that businesses that are steadily growing are more rewarding for ownership as well as attractive to potential buyers. If your business is not growing you have more than one reason to do something about it. LVA can help you change the course of your business with proven growth strategies and tools to help you manage that growth profitably.

Removing barriers to growth

Before you develop a growth plan you will need to identify the existing and potential barriers to growth that will thwart any well-developed plan. LVA can help you diagnose and identify these barriers and develop a plan to remove them. You will be amazed at how much more attractive your business will be if you have identified and addressed your business growth barriers.

Developing a Strategic and Operating Plan

The odds for achieving outstanding business success and your personal goals are greatly improved if you have a well thought out strategy and plan to execute it. Planning professionals at LVA can help you create a winning strategy and a realistic plan to execute it. If your business is starved for capital, let’s fix the problem. LVA will help you identify your needs and help you raise the funds your business needs to grow. A thorough and realistic plan with solid financial projections will be compelling to your bank and other sources of capital.

Budgets and other tools for management

Successful businesses and their managers use a few simple tools to track progress every day. LVA can build those ‘dashboard’ tools for you. They will allow you to know if the business is on track and to do some celebrating when goals are met.

Growth by acquisition

Many large companies do not rely solely on internal growth to add value to their business. Access to new markets, new product offerings, new competencies and economies of scale can be some of the benefits of a well-thought out acquisition strategy. We can help you build that strategy and execute it with you. Acquisitions are far easier to finance than internal growth and can help you create a far more attractive business when its time to sell. LVA can help you develop and execute an acquisition strategy.

Innovation will create a new future for your business and you

If you are not constantly developing new products or business practices you are missing out on the new frontier of competitive advantage. Let us show you how to make innovation the lifeblood of your business and how to make this important cultural change throughout your organization. Real value creation and, in some cases, survival depends on it.

Selling your business

The decision to sell your business is not an easy one. And it might be the largest financial transaction of your life. You might not be sure of the timing and the process and you wonder how you can run the business and sell it at the same time. These are all real concerns and LVA can help you with them. While selling your business may be a new challenge to you it’s not to us. Working with LVA allows you to continue to focus on your business while we discreetly prepare your business to be marketed and brought to qualified buyers. We will take your company through all of the traditional valuation models and working together will find the most appropriate one for your business. We will prepare all the levels of information prospective buyers will need and manage the process professionally, discreetly and completely.

Our work with companies prepared to sell usually includes the following four work phases.

Phase I	Phase II	Phase III	Phase IV
Getting to Know your Business	Prepare Work Product	Develop & Review Target List with Seller	Letter of Intent & Confidentiality Agreement
Information Gathering	Review & Analyze Historical Financials	Initial Content with Prospect	Negotiation
Outside Research	Preparation of Pro forma Financials	Coaching Seller on Interested Buyers	Due Diligence
Review Findings with Seller	Draft Descriptive Memorandum	Site Visits	Coordinate Legal

If you are thinking about selling

If you are considering selling now or in the near future give us a call. We will arrange a confidential meeting. There are no forms or questionnaires to complete. Together we will determine if the timing is right and at what price you might expect to sell the business.