A business can change ownership in a day. What made it successful took decades to build.
Founder dependency is often the result of founder excellence. Succession involves transferring much more than ownership.
Gerhard Botha · · 6 min read
Read the article →We are interested in what happens before, during and after a change of ownership. How responsibilities pass from a founder to new owners. How established companies retain the knowledge and relationships that make them successful. And how better management, engineering, products and investment can help them develop.
We also write about the industrial businesses and communities we encounter across Europe, including the Alpine region where Graculus has particular roots.
A specialist manufacturer may sell almost everything it makes abroad while depending heavily on the town or valley around it. Some of that dependence is obvious. Much of it is not.
We write about the issues that tend to matter before, during and after an ownership transition, and about the businesses and industrial communities we want to understand.
What does it mean to take responsibility for an industrial business?
How do you build a capable organisation around the people already there?
How can established products become more valuable through engineering, manufacturing and software?
When does buying another business strengthen the company you already own?