Often the biggest sale of our clients' lives, Kingsbrook enters into a journey with you based on honesty and trust.
Journeys that eventually turn in to stories
Selling up
Every business has a story behind it – how the shareholders ended up owning and running a business. Sometimes fortune, often passion and determination, sometimes unintentional. Every one of our clients has a story to tell of the risks they have taken and the sacrifices made in order to achieve their success.
Similarly every reason for sale tells a story, and the variety of reasons is wide. One of our clients movingly described Callum, his seven-year-old son with a tear-stained face, holding his dad’s hand, desperately trying to stop him going to work again on a Saturday…
Kingsbrook have captured some of these stories in our book “I Sold Up’.
We think you’ll enjoy it!
For more than 30 years, Kingsbrook has sold well over 1,500 companies from virtually all sectors. We are very honest with our clients and we assess all client companies on their own merits, and we never make false promises.
There is no such thing as a typical Kingsbrook client, however the companies we work with may have the following characteristics:
Revenues
Typically anywhere between £0.5 million and £20 million
Operating profit
Typically up to 1 or 2 million pounds. Our associate company—BCMS—deals with much larger clients
Geography
All corners of the UK and the Republic of Ireland
Corporate type
Trading companies rather than investment and property companies. In addition, our client businesses may be: