Sale of business: wholesale or retail?

Purpose of the site Bizguru.ru - teach beginners business organization doing business and small business development. However, in the future, many of you will be able to ... sell the business. You will have to choose: to accept the proposal here and now to get the money not only for the assets, but also for the future prospects of the company, and possibly start a new business or to retire or give up - that, as before, be the captain of his ship. Impose a solution to you no one is entitled. Our sole objective - to help you not make a bad bargain, if you choose the first option. To get started you will need to determine whether all components of the business you want to sell? Let's try to enumerate them: 1. Premises store, warehouse, company. If they are in your property, then no problem. In the case where you - the tenant will have to notify the owner of the upcoming changes and ask his opinion about the prospects of the place. You may need to sign an agreement on assignment of lease premises - at the conclusion of which you can make extra money! 2. Transport (minibus for staff, truck products, service director's Volkswagen Phaeton). Maybe the last you want to leave me? Then be careful with how to bring it out of the ownership of the firm. For example, sell it yourself on the residual value. Ask for a friendly SRT account depreciation of each nut, worn every seat, every scratch from wood twigs or gravel road on the body. The more "gaps" - the cheaper the car will cost you. 3. Furniture and other office equipment. It is unlikely that you will be able to "weld" the sale of actively used office equipment, furniture and beushnye nurtured by caring secretaries ficus. 4. Employees. Honest businessman must first make sure that, after the resale business of his former employees were not at the Labour Exchange. Ask the buyer of his firm's plans for the team. Perhaps we should conclude with the best employees long-term contracts - for a year or two to give them the right to employment or compensation in the event of dismissal. By the way, if known and professional staff, to retain it, too, you can request money. Otherwise, they say, behind him notice 5. Brand. Company name, uniform, motto, the best place to bigboards city and in a televised prime-time. Incidentally, in some companies, it is this - the most expensive component. 6. Patents for the production of goods and know-how to deliver services, ownership of the right trademark. These things are invaluable. 7. Customer base. Goods for sale which you are most responsible. Selling contact their customers and "notes" to their request, you give the new owner of the private life that you trust: preferences, home address, phone, schedule visits. Thus, you can sell the firm in parts - which, perhaps significantly more profitable, but much more difficult and prolonged in the design. To sell the business entirely - what is called a stroke of a pen, you need to draw all his business property in a single property complex. As experts say, it is easier (by number of administrative procedures) and cheaper to create a new similar company than to sell existing one ... But in this case are impossible negotiating rights to the brand - for which, perhaps, was started transaction. Moreover, in the CIS countries, followed by foreign countries began to develop this kind of business as sales of existing dealers successful companies shares Olga Milto