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Strong Economy – Strong Buy-Sell Market

Martinka Consulting

Record number of small business sales in 2018! 70% of medium sized companies will change hands (2008). PriceWaterhouseCoopers – Two-thirds of companies with sales of $5,000,000 to $50,000,000 will change hands in the next 10 years (2011). Notice the same predictions from 2008-2015? This as per bizbuysell.com.

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What GE’s Board Could Have Done Differently

Harvard Business

Since Immelt’s departure, GE’s stock is down another 30%, as its new CEO, John Flannery, has struggled to cope with the cash flow drain from years of problematic acquisitions, divestitures, and buybacks. Because of these dubious decisions, GE’s ratio of debt to earnings has soared from 1.5 in 2013 to 3.7

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Profit Leakage Calculator: Diagnose How Much Profit a Business is Losing

ConsultX

Our Consultants are meeting with Business Owners around the world every day. They are seeing first hand how many opportunities are being missed to improve profitability and cash flow just from existing operations alone. This is Profit that is being missed out on from areas of the business that aren’t operating as they should.