Succession Partners
Manufacturing
Background
Founder-led manufacturers in Gauteng with established customers, real assets and no settled plan for the next chapter.
A manufacturing business carries more than plant and equipment. It carries approvals, specifications, supplier relationships and a workforce trained to the owner's standards. None of that transfers by signing a sale agreement.
Vested Partners partners with owner-operated manufacturers in Gauteng with turnover above R25 million. Between the two partners we bring engineering and operations on one side and CA(SA) deal, valuation and structuring experience on the other, so the operational and the financial questions are handled by the same people.
We work through buyouts, earn-outs and advisory arrangements, and we hold every discussion in confidence.
The Problem
The owner wants to step back, but the business still runs on their judgement.
The equipment and the order book are sound; the succession plan is not.
A trade sale to a competitor puts customers, staff and the name over the door at risk.
Our Solutions
We take an operating stake and a share of the responsibility. The owner sets the structure and the pace — an outright buyout, an earn-out over an agreed period, or an advisory arrangement while the business is prepared. We put operators into the business rather than a monthly report.