Jamieson is a professional business valuation expert, specialising in:
- Business sales pricing and decisions
- Business acquisition pricing and decisions
- Management buy-outs and buy-ins
- Balance sheet reviews
- Bank loans
- Insurance
Business valuation and assessments have been performed by Jamieson for a variety of businesses, predominately in industries and sectors underpinned by our executives’ experience and expertise as business brokers – in import, distribution, manufacturing and professional and other business to business services.
Our formal valuation services are usually restricted to specific industries where we have often acted as business brokers in actual sales, mergers and acquisitions, such as insurance brokers, customs brokers and freight forwarders, registered training organisations and certain trading and manufacturing businesses.
In undertaking such assessments, we are able to draw on our activities as business brokers to reference specific business sales of comparable businesses – an advantage over business valuations completed by many accounting firms who do not have broad based data across many different industries on business sales and purchases.
A Jamieson business valuation involves a comprehensive study of the business:
- Financial results
- Products and/or services
- Market potential
- Competition
- Operations
- Effect of changes in technology
- Structure of the industry and
- Management and staff
These matters go to the future potential of the business and cover the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats faced by the business.
For over 30 years we have developed valuable intellectual property of our own in valuation methods relating to the gross profit of businesses, the fee income of service businesses and appropriate multipliers evidenced by actual business sales results.
This allows a dual approach to business valuation testing the reasonableness of assessed values and often provides additional confidence in traditional P/E based methods for the pricing of businesses. The applicable market-based multipliers are particularly relevant in many service industries.
If you wish to sell your business, have your business valued or are interested in a merger or acquisition, contact the Jamieson’s team of business brokers for advice here contact us.
Selection of business valuations completed
| Industry | Purpose of valuation | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Accountancy practice | merger | $300k |
| Automotive engine products | sale pricing | $1.6m |
| Building products importer | sale pricing | $7m |
| Chemical control equipment | partnership buyout | $1m |
| Construction equipment distributor | financing | $2m |
| Craft materials distributor | partnership buyout | $2.2m |
| Customs broker & forwarder | sale of shares | $11m |
| Customs broker & forwarder | management buy-out | $1.2m |
| Educational products importer | sale decision | $350k |
| Engineering consultancy | partnership buyout | $600k |
| Equipment hire company | divorce settlement | $2m |
| Financial planner | bank loan | $2.1m |
| Food additives import | management buy-in | $6.5m |
| Freight forwarder | divorce settlement | $300k |
| Freight forwarder | partnership buyout | $2.1m |
| Frozen food distribution | management buy-out | $1.6m |
| Insurance broker | sale of shares | $4.1m |
| Insurance broker | bank loan | $2m |
| Insurance broker | sale decision | $1m |
| Insurance broker | sale decision | $6m |
| IT consultancy | sale decision | $1m |
| Lifts and elevators service | sale decision | $2.5m |
| Lorry owner-drivers | damages claim | $1.5m |
| Magazine publisher | internal asset transfer | $550k |
| Magazine publisher | possible sale | $138k |
| Marina company and slipway service | damages claim | $2m |
| Medical electronics | capital gains tax | $1.1m |
| Menswear, retail | capital gains tax | $300k |
| Mining IT services | proposed float | $4.1m |
| Mobile phone store chain | balance sheet goodwill | $2.3m |
| Pharmaceutical packager | family transfer | $1.1m |
| Pharmacy, retail | bank loan | $500k |
| Printing company | sale | $3m |
| Pump equipment manufacturer, hire | sale decision | $2.5m |
| Recruitment agency | sale decision | $4.5m |
| Roller shutters, manufacturing | sale pricing | $1.9m |
| Ski shop, retail | damages claim | $300k |
| Sporting goods import, distribution | partnership buyout | $3.1m |
| Stationery supplies import, distribution | sale decision | $1.5m |
| Transformer manufacturer | mortgagee sale | $500k |