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Six Reasons to Consider Making an Acquisition Now

April 22, 2012
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There are several good reasons why now is a good time for a landscape company to consider making an acquisition.  Let’s take a look at some of the most compelling reasons that landscape business owners should seriously consider making a move now. 1. Valuations remain attractive for acquirors Typical valuations in the green industry...

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Nine Warning Signs You Are A Hub and Spoke Owner

April 3, 2012
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By: John Warrillow If you were to draw a picture that visually represents your role in your business, what would it look like? Are you at the top of a traditional Christmas-tree-like organizational chart, or are you stuck in the middle of your business, like a hub in a bicycle wheel? As anyone who...

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Why Are You Selling Your Business?

February 8, 2012
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One of the things we always do when we take on a new client is to try to understand why they are thinking about selling their business. This is important for a whole host of reasons. From a business point of view, it helps us to understand how serious they are about selling.  It...

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Business Lessons from the Super Bowl

February 8, 2012
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By Richard Helling Well, another Super Bowl has passed and being a life-long Broncos fan all I can say is “yay.” My lack of enthusiasm for the Super Bowl is really just a case of extreme jealousy. The Patriots and Giants are both great teams deserving of their elite status. Inevitably, I can’t help...

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SEVEN POWERFUL RATIOS TO START TRACKING NOW

February 7, 2012
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By:John Warrillow Doctors in the developing world measure their progress not by the aggregate number of children who die in childbirth but by the infant mortality rate, a ratio of the number of births to deaths. Similarly, baseball’s leadoff batters measure their “on-base percentage” – the number of times they get on base as...

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Ron Edmonds on Exit Planning from National Green Centre

January 11, 2012
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The following video was recorded during a presentation by Ron Edmonds of The Principium Group on Exit Planning for Green Industry Business Owners at the National Green Centre trade show in Kansas City on January 9, 2012.  

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Key Green Industry Merger & Acquisition Trends for 2012

January 4, 2012
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Here are our thoughts about key trends that will impact green industry mergers and acquisitions in 2012: The political climate will contribute to some uncertainty in the marketplace, but as the economy continues to strengthen, the level of merger & acquisition activity will continue to increase. No matter which party controls the White House...

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How Did We Do?

January 2, 2012
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As we prepare our thoughts about key trends to watch for 2012, I thought it would be interesting to look back at what we thought would be the key trends for 2011. Here is a reprint of  our commentary on key trends for 2011 which we published  in January 2011.  All-in-all, I think our...

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The Power of Acquisitions

November 23, 2011
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Is it possible to increase the value of a business worth $3 million by 50% or $1.5 million by making a $500,000 acquisition? Here’s a possible scenario: A landscape services company with $750,000 in EBITDA might be worth, in some circumstances, $3,000,000 (if it was valued based on a multiple of four). A smaller...

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How We Use Social Media

November 8, 2011
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Ron Edmonds of The Principium Group was quoted in the October 2011 issue of Mergers & Acquisitions regarding how mergers & acquisitions firms use social media. “At The Principium Group, we use social media extensively and find it an important source of leads for our specialty mergers and acquisitions practice, whichis focused oin companies...

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