Company guide: Management buy-outs inject welcome lifeblood.(News)

From: The Birmingham Post (England) | Date: June 29, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

The management buy-out and all its various variants has been one of the stalwart ways of regenerating British industry.

It has been proved and tested down the years and is responsible for injecting new lifeblood into companies that have begun to stagnate. In the process plenty of people have made their fortunes and a few have lost out.

But then MBOs are as much a matter of risk as the rest of business.

With the bigger MBOs, there was a well-trodden route. First do your deal, then tag on what acquisitions are available while cutting all the costs you can out of your ...

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