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Direction de la restructuration et cession d’une entreprise de thermoformage de plastiques

J.S. Held fait l'acquisition de GLI Advisors, renforçant ainsi ses services d'assistance aux projets de construction dans l'ouest des États-Unis et à Hawaï.

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Contexte

  • Plastic thermoformer that served the horticultural marketplace from two Midwest plants.
  • The company lost $2 million from operations, primarily due to losses from an ill-fated acquisition two years prior. Unfortunately, the owners had saved an insolvent company from bankruptcy and liquidation by absorbing all its debts, including a beautiful manufacturing plant in a non-industrial rural area that would be difficult to sell.
  • Continuing price competition on commodity-type products had squeezed margins, and the company had inadequate cost systems to identify which products and customers were least or most profitable.
  • The company had been bleeding cash profusely and had exhausted all of its liquidity.
  • Additionally, no one was in day-to-day management control of the company.
  • The owners wanted to sell the company and salvage something as they were at retirement age.

Nos conseils

  • The initial assessment revealed the seriousness of the problem, and our project manager became CRO to salvage as much value from the company as quickly as possible.
  • Quickly closed the corporate office and one of the plants, relocating all functions to the other plant to improve the significant underutilized capacity and to conserve cash and reduce costs.
  • Attempted to keep the business operating as we hoped to bridge to a sale transaction and avoid a liquidation that would be financially disastrous for all parties.
  • Negotiated on a daily basis for two months with the vendors and the bank to keep the business alive as a going concern in order to sell it.
  • Found two prospective buyers who preferred to purchase the business through a 363 bankruptcy sale.
  • Sold the business via a 363 sale, as our previous marketing was critical in convincing the court of the market value of the proposed deal, and sold the expensive plant independent of the business.
  • The secured lender recovered over 90% of its loan in this very difficult and painful process.

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Dan F. Dooley, CTP 
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