Business Buying Strategies from The Dealmaker's Academy

Hello this is Jonathan Jay - and welcome to episode 142 of the Business Buying Strategies podcast.

This week, we meet Richard Bundock, another of my private clients. I asked Richard about what made him consider acquiring a business, rather than starting one and growing it organically. As you'll hear from his answer, it quickly became apparent that he'd tried the 'start and grow' strategy around twelve years ago, and had found it hard work.

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Hello this is Jonathan Jay - and welcome to episode 141 of the Business Buying Strategies podcast.

This week, I was delighted to catch up online with one of my private clients, Phil Hunt. Now Phil has a full time job as HR Director of a city bank in London, but that hasn't stopped him from following the Dealmakers Academy programme and making his first two acquisitions.

Phil has recently acquired two hairdressing salons - and here he is introducing himself, and explaining how the first acquisition came about.

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Hello this is Jonathan Jay - and welcome to episode 140 of the Business Buying Strategies podcast.

This week, we return to the very first episode of the podcast, where I met up with Neville Wright, the founder of Kiddicare, a children's and nursery retailer, which he sold to Morrissons in 2011 for £70m.

Before it was acquired, Kiddicare was the largest privately owned online retailer of its kind - So I was keen to find out from Neville how the deal came about.

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Hello this is Jonathan Jay - and welcome to episode 139 of the Business Buying Strategies podcast.

As part of our third birthday celebrations, we've been enjoying delving back into the archives. This week, we revisit an interview between Jonathan and Martin Dawes, the founder of Coffee Nation, a bean to cup coffee business that he sold to Whitbread and has since been rebranded as Costa Express.

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Hello this is Jonathan Jay - and welcome to episode 138 of the Business Buying Strategies podcast.

Now if you are a regular listener to this podcast, you may be as shocked as I was to discover that just a couple of weeks ago, we celebrated our third birthday.

Since our very first episode way back in April 2018, we have interviewed and spoken with some remarkable people. In the early days, we used to edit each interview into a number of bitesize segments, and then spread them out over a number of episodes.

This was fine at the time, but in hindsight some of the interviews were so rich in content that I believe they deserve to be heard in a single sitting.

I have handpicked four of my favourite interviews from the podcast, and Ed, our podcast producer, has re-edited them so you get to hear each one in full.

This week, we return to August 2018, when I was joined by Mark Supperstone, a Director of the Resolve Group, a company that specialises in acquiring and funding distressed companies. I've chosen this particular contribution because of the number of students and clients I meet who are keen to grow by acquiring distressed businesses themselves. It's not without its risks, but the rewards can be handsome if you get it right.

So here's Mark explaining how they made their first acquisition, when they purchased a bakery business out of administration.

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Hello this is Jonathan Jay - and welcome to episode 137 of the Business Buying Strategies podcast.

Now if you are a regular listener to this podcast, you may be as shocked as I was to discover that just a couple of weeks ago, we celebrated our third birthday.

Since our very first episode way back in April 2018, we have interviewed and spoken with some remarkable people. In the early days, we used to edit each interview into a number of bitesize segments, and then spread them out over a number of episodes.

This was fine at the time, but in hindsight some of the interviews were so rich in content that I believe they deserve to be heard in a single sitting.

I have handpicked four of my favourite interviews from the podcast, and Ed, our podcast producer, has re-edited them so you get to hear each one in full.

This week, here's legendary jewellery entrepreneur Gerald Ratner, talking about his business journey, focusing on how he grew his retail empire almost entirely by acquisition.

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Hello this is Jonathan Jay - and welcome to episode 136 of the Business Buying Strategies podcast.

This week, I talk with Jamie Simpson, a member of my private client programme. When I first met Jamie, he told me that he had been interested in buying a business for some time, but that nothing had actually happened.

Since joining the programme he has bought three businesses without risking his own cash.

Let's find out how he did it.

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Hello this is Jonathan Jay - and welcome to episode 135 of the Business Buying Strategies podcast.

Now at the end of last week, I met up with business selling expert, John Warrilow - John hosts an extremely popular longstanding podcast 'Built to sell radio' - focused on selling businesses, rather than acquiring them. He is also the author of the international bestselling book Built to Sell, as well as a brand new title published this year called 'The art of selling your business'

We kicked off with a discussion about John's two books.

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Hello this is Jonathan Jay - and welcome to episode 134 of the Business Buying Strategies podcast.    This week my colleague Ed and I discuss the children's day nurseries that we have acquired over recent months.    Follow or connect with Jonathan on LinkedIn

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Hello this is Jonathan Jay - and welcome to episode 133 of the Business Buying Strategies podcast. This week we look back at the best bits from the podcast over the past couple of months.

We hear from Tom Hine, Alan Finlay, Jonathan Goulstine, Chris Stone, Rob Ward, Clive Pacey and former Dragon James Caan.

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