Exit strategies for print businesses

Is it time to realise the value in your business, safeguard your legacy and secure family finances?

Explore tailored exit routes and the practical steps to get you there

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Why planning ahead matters

Print businesses are built on recurring orders, production capability and long-standing client relationships. Their value sits in contracted accounts, specialised equipment, efficient workflows and experienced teams. A well-planned exit ensures you capture that value, protect staff and maintain continuity for key customers.

    • Demonstrate predictable cashflow by formalising repeat business: secure multi-year or retainer agreements, document recurring job schedules and margins, show historic retention and churn metrics, and package workflows so a buyer can replicate revenue immediately. Buyers pay a premium for visible, low-risk revenue streams — make yours audit-ready

    • Broaden revenue streams to enhance resilience and buyer appeal – Strengthen your position by expanding into complementary services (design, fulfilment, mailing, digital print, wide-format, packaging). A more balanced revenue mix reduces client concentration and increases valuation multiples.

    • Retain key production staff and customer relationships through structured transition planning

    • Optimise tax and commercial terms around equipment depreciation, leases and working-capital cycles

    • Ensure a smooth transition whenever you choose to step away

Exit Options

Whether it is a cash injection and a part equity sale, or a complete company/trade and asset sale. Complete confidentiality and matching business synergies enables us to give you the options on where to take your business next. Our full end-to-end sales service includes:

  • Introducing potential buyers/sellers

  • A comprehensive and detailed digital marketing & direct marketing campaign to ensure all potential audiences have been reached

  • Providing pre-transaction tax planning advice

  • Identifying strengths and suggesting methods to overcome weaknesses

  • Project managing each transaction from initial concept through to completion in the most commercially aware and tax advantageous way possible.

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80% business sale success rate

The Business Board boasts a business sale success rate of over 80% for the last ten years, in the main due to the research, due diligence and relentless marketing.

Whether it is an immediate sale or something you are considering over the next 2 to 3 years, it is never too early to lay the foundations for your exit strategy.

A timed, planned and considered approach will maximise the value of your business.

Complete confidentiality and matching business synergies enables us to give you the options on where to take your business next.

Kind Words

“I am personally grateful to Nigel and the team for working tirelessly to find the right purchaser, which has led them to put aside their own financial opportunity on so many occasions to make sure the suitors were the right fit. Their integrity shone through at these times and has only convinced me that we made the right choice in what I feel has been a journey taken together to a successful conclusion”

Managing Director, £6m London based Consultancy Business

If you would like to talk to us about your own exit strategy, please contacts us:

info@thebusinessboard.co.uk

0118 338 1818