Buying, Nurturing & Growing Owner Managed Businesses
AlBen exists to help owner operated business owners like you who are looking for a smooth and easy transition to exit your business and move onto the next phase of your life
What We Do
Buying
We are backed by a very experienced acquisition, financing and business growth network.
We have the experience and backing to assess and make an offer for your business swiftly and for the right businesses we can complete within weeks.
Nurturing
With almost 20 years’ experience of running and growing our own businesses, we understand that each business is truly individual.
We are committed to work with you to ensure an agreement is reached which truly benefits everyone involved.
Growing
We also recognise this is just the beginning as we take on the business you have worked on for many years. We then support and develop the 2nd tier management to push the business even further forward with a long-term view.
Selling your business
We will deal directly with you through the whole process as we are the principals for any deal and not brokers or corporate finance advisers.
Like you we fully understand that a business can be the biggest asset you own, selling that asset needs to be handled in the right way.
We treat each potential acquisition on an individual basis, it is only after detailed conversations with you that we would structure a specific deal which is fair to you and to us.
We understand how important the continued development of the business and the people within in the business is to you.
We have access to finance from a wide range of commercial funders and a network of high net worth investors. All of these contacts are well practiced in financing deals for businesses like yours.
Most owner managed businesses sold in the UK include an element of deferred payment and we are no different. It’s important you understand this from the start.
If you would like to know why most businesses have an element of deferred payment, drop us a line and we will let you know.
We focus on ensuring as much of the cash you have built up in your business is returned to you at the point of completion. We would expect this to be done in a sensible way to allow sufficient working capital for the business to continue to grow. Please don’t listen to any adviser who tells you to take out spare cash before the sale. Contact us and we can explain why this is.
If you own a good, profitable company with trading history and quantifiable future forecasts, then we should talk
Meet AlBen
OUR STORY. OUR MISSION
Alben has been set up by husband and wife team, Michael & Victoria Barrett.
Both Michael & Victoria have hands on experience of running and growing their own business and before that valuable and varied corporate experience.
Because we understand how important family businesses are, AlBen's mission is to reduce the complexities of selling your owner managed business and make the selling process as simple as possible, whilst realising the best outcome for you, your staff and your family’s future.
MICHAEL
Experience of running and significantly growing family owned business, tripling income and massively improving profitability whilst establishing a good team to run the business day to day.
Michael previously worked in large FTSE100 Corporates in both Operational and Finance roles. He also has experience of working on large mergers and acquisitions
VICTORIA
Victoria has played a key part in growing the family owned business, using her extensive marketing knowledge built up over the last 25 years.
Victoria has worked for some very well-known Corporates and on many ground breaking marketing campaigns.
Her creative approach has helped all the businesses she has been involved in to improve their prospect pipeline and ultimately their sales and profitability.
OUR NON EXECUTIVE ADVISORS
Contact Us
If you own a good, profitable business and are looking to release the value you’ve built up and want to know your business will be in safe hands then please get in contact and let’s talk…….
GUY
Guy Bartlett’s personal experience of acquiring Owner Managed Businesses is extensive, having worked on over 150 deals and acquiring revenues of his own business portfolio of over £20m in the process.
He also advises and consults on both acquisitions and business sales for other entrepreneurs and has experience of a very wide range of business sectors and deal structures including hedge funds, venture capital, private equity and commercial debt and finance.
In addition to growth by acquisition, Guy has also built three separate businesses from scratch to over 7 figures in sales so he understands in detail the challenges and effort that owner managers put into their businesses
TERRY
Terry Gormley is a human behaviour specialist, performance coach and motivational speaker, and has devoted more than a decade of his life to the study
Terry is a human behaviour specialist, performance coach and motivational speaker, and has devoted more than a decade of his life to the study of extraordinary thinking.
He has made it his mission to help ordinary people achieve extraordinary results in their lives, by working with them to transform the way they think so that they can transform their results.
In Terry’s work within the corporate world – with business owners, entrepreneurs and in professional sports performance – he challenges and provokes each client’s way of thinking, with a specific focus on helping them to shape their future and live their lives on purpose. This has led to clients dubbing him “the Mindshaper”.
extraordinary thinking.
He has made it his mission to help ordinary people achieve extraordinary results in their lives, by working with them to transform the way they think so that they can transform their results.
In Terry’s work within the corporate world – with business owners, entrepreneurs and in professional sports performance – he challenges and provokes each client’s way of thinking, with a specific focus on helping them to shape their future and live their lives on purpose. This has led to clients dubbing him “the Mindshaper”.
