Buy and Sell Small Businesses in the Overberg
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"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." Winston Churchill Sentinel Business Advisory Services is dedicated to offering a highly professional and personalized service to small and medium family owned businesses in the Western Cape, Overberg and Boland. |
There are three focal areas:
• Sentinel Business Brokers
• Sentinel Turnaround and Rescue
• Sentinel Business and Financial Management Services
We are based in Hermanus and have already attracted clients from Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Somerset West, Kleinmond, Gansbaai, Stanford, Greyton, Caledon and Bredasdorp.
Click here to view our business for sale listings.
Sentinel Business Brokers
The emphasis is to provide a highly professional service to family owned businesses in their quest to unlock value tied up in their businesses. This involves looking at the various options open to the owners and deciding on the best strategy to maximize returns.
Since there are many guesthouses, B&B’s, lodges and boutique hotels in the Overberg and Boland that are family owned and operated, but requires a different marketing strategy, because of the property component and prospective target market, from other businesses we have catered for this specific need. Our target market is any guesthouse, B&B, lodge or boutique hotel in Overberg and Boland and especially Hermanus, Greyton, Stanford and Gansbaai
To see what is on the market please go to:
• Businesses For Sale
• Guesthouses For Sale
Sentinel Turnaround and Rescue
Depending on the ‘health’ of the business there are appropriate steps that management can take in the best interest of all stakeholders.
With new Companies Act No 71 of 2008 coming into operation soon Chapter 6 makes provision for a legislated business rescue process for companies in distress. A business rescue practitioner is appointed to conduct the process and moratorium on any legal action by creditors is called while the rescue process is in progress.
However, before getting to the formalized Chapter 6 phase businesses can also go through various phases of business renewal depending on its level of ‘health’.
| State of Health | Intervention |
| Healthy and Stable | Pro-active Business and profitability improvement |
| Moderately Under-performing | Re-active Business and profitability improvement |
| Severely Under-Performing | Business Turnaround |
| Financial Distress | Business Rescue (Chapter 6) |
Shareholders, owners and/or management have a fiduciary duty to act in the best interest of all stakeholders of the company or business. For example, if a business is technical insolvent and new orders are placed on suppliers knowingly that the prospect of the supplier being paid according to their terms and conditions are not secure, it is considered reckless trading and can result in criminal prosecution.
Sentinel Business and Financial Management Services
Family owned businesses are often very entrepreneurial by nature and the founder of the business manages very hands on. As the business progresses along its life cycle the owner’s strength, whether it be in marketing, administration, production or finance starts dominating at the expense of the other disciplines.
This results in a very viable company with a good product or service starting to show signs of strain in customer service, drop in turnover, margins coming under pressure, overheads getting out of control, profitability declining (or even turning into a loss), high staff turnover to name the more important.
The owner needs a friendly co-pilot to plan the business’s future and extend its life cycle into a new renewal phase. This might involve any one or more of the following services:
Enquiries
It is sometimes better to be pro-active and call on a specialist instead of waiting for a situation where the choices has been limited and no longer in your control, e.g. liquidation or forced closure of a business with the associated trauma that goes with it.
For an informal chat please contact us
