John Styring, CEO and founder at IglooBooks looks at the main challenges for SME’s planning to sell their company. In October this year, IglooBooks was acquired by Bonnier Publishing. The deal meant that together the two companies became one of the largest children’s publishers in the country.
Preparing for an exit needs to take place long before there’s an offer on the table. We spoke to Andrew Westhead, partner in tax at Grant Thornton, about how you can make sure your firm is in the best shape to maximise the return from any exit and what to do when an offer is on the table.
Research compiled by UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) has revealed that starting your own business is seen as the most desirable career path for today’s youth.
It's pumped into the background whether we're doing some spring time browsing or frantic Christmas shopping, but music in retail establishments has been proven to have a big impact on cash going into tills.
If a company wants to sell stock shares to the general public, it conducts an IPO. But it takes months of preparation and, if done wrong, will lead you to retract your IPO. So here are ten steps to IPO readiness.
Having completed the sale of her price comparison business Gocompare to esure, giving it a valuation of £190m, Hayley Parsons sits down with Real Business to relive the journey and explain the firm's innovative marketing strategy.
A Barnsley craftsman, who specialises in making bespoke kitchen furniture, is perhaps not as well-known as he should be for the work he did in the first Harry Potter film. But he's now taken his experience and made a bid to change the market.
We hear from an entrepreneur who has taken the "lean startup" model devised by Eric Ries and applied it to his own business.
Chinese companies are growing in the UK at an unprecedented rate, and will continue to do so in 2015.
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