Is your business ready to be handed over?
"I'll do this for another five years, then we'll see." The question isn't whether you hand over. The question is whether anyone can take over your business.
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- Quotes are priced "from experience" – hourly rates and mark-ups exist nowhere on paper.
- Customer contact runs through the owner's phone.
- Production planning is a person, not a process.
- There is no second tier of leadership.
Ready to hand over
- Costing is in a system, traceable for any successor.
- Customers also know the foreman, not just the boss.
- Production planning runs as a documented process.
- A deputy covers holidays, illness and handover.
Family
The nicest route, when willingness and ability come together: would you hire them if they weren't your son or daughter?
MBO
Your own foreman or plant manager knows customers, machines, people – and can almost always lead, but rarely finance.
MBI
An outsider buys in and leads themselves. Needs a business ready to be handed over, or they stand alone after six months.
Sale
To a competitor or strategic buyer – usually the highest price, rarely the least friction.
Staged
First a stake, then a full takeover. Slower, but the route with the least risk of failure for both sides.
What happens if you're away for three months?
If the answer is "me" three times over, the buyer is purchasing a job, not a business.
Who are your three biggest customers?
Framework agreements, terms, notice periods – and: does the customer know anyone at the business besides you?
Show the post-costing of an order from last month.
Whoever doesn't have it doesn't know which orders actually make money.
Nachfolge-Check
Fixed price
two days on site, plus a free initial call
- Seven areas, traffic-light rating, valuation range
- Recommendation on the right succession route
- Written roadmap through to handover
Where no successor is in sight, Invictix can step in: as a stake or acquisition, often via a getting-to-know-you phase. The business stays, the team stays, the name stays.
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