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About Us
At Mobius Associates, we help clients create better more sustainable businesses, helping them to grow and create a better future for all of the business stakeholders, from customers, to owners and staff.
By focusing on the long term potential of the business, and the affect the business has on the local economy plus the internation ecology we can help create a more sustainable future.
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Our Consulting Services
At Mobius Associates, we work with partners to offer our clients services to help them to manage and grow their business. Below are some of our services, for more information check out our services page
Performance Analysis
Understanding your Key Performance Indicators is essential to business success. Creating performance matrix to help businesses to concentrate on the areas that matter.
Financial Consulting
When you get to the end of the month, how do you know if it was a good month? Understanding the financial drivers to your business is key to creating a prosperous business.
Succession Planning
Preparing your business for the future, creating a plan that will see your business thrive. Helping you create a strategic plan, and implementing changes to your business.
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What We Do
At Mobius Associates, we help business owners who are looking to grow their business, sell their business, we also advocate for Employee Owned Trusts, as a great way to leave a legacy behind.
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Our Approach
Our approach is to create better businesses, following the 10 components of Good Business Charter and creating a culture of collaboration within each business that joins us whilst creating a culture of collaboration and equitable growth.
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Our Mission
To create a group of independent staff owned businesses that work collaboratively to become better businesses for all, the staff, the customers, the suppliers, the local community and the greater community worldwide.
Getting Started
Are you a business owner who is considering selling your business?
Have you tried to sell your business through listing it and tired of tire kickers?
Does your business have at least 10 members of staff?
Would you like to get to know more about our process and how you can move your business to the next level?
Frequently Asked Questions
Do you buy businesses?
Yes, we will buy any business that is viable and has 10 or more employees. We acquire businesses with the staff, using employee-owned trusts meaning the staff will benefit from the majority of the business.
Mobius Associates and our partners, will take a minor shareholding within the business and support the business by encouraging collaboration with other employee-owned businesses within the group, by creating a collaborative environment for the business to grow and thrive.
We also acquire businesses for clients who are looking to grow in preparation for an eventual sale, helping them to increase the value of their own business in the process.
Do you sell businesses?
No, businesses that we acquire are majority owned by the employee owned trust meaning that we are unable and unwilling to sell the business.
We assist the business by using our group to support the business and put into place a 100-year business plan to assist the business to continue growing into the future.
We also assist business owners to prepare their busienss for sale to our clients, this can be to asisst the seller to acheive a valuation that our clients are looking to acheive.
What is an Employee Owned Trust (EOT)?
An Employee Owned Trust is a legal entity where the employees are registered as the beneficiary members, the trust will acquire shares in the business and control is given to the staff on how the business is run. Profits are distributed to the shareholders as normal, with the trust distributing them as agreed to the staff.
The management team will answer to the shareholders like all other businesses, with the trust being represented on the board of directors and staff council members being promoted to board members to oversee operations.
What are the benefits of an EOT sale?
Most businesses advertised for sale do not achieve a sales event, those that do, within 3 years the previous owner regrets the sale.
This can happen for a number of reasons, the previous owner does not achieve the total asking price due to aggressive warranties on the sale, the business is sold to a competitor that the seller did want, or the staff that the owner wanted to protect leave the company, either by choice or forced out by the new management team.
When selling to the EOT, the money paid by the trust for the sale is tax-free meaning that the owner gets to keep more of the funds agreed, and the sale is protected by a loan back rather than deferred consideration, the staff make decisions on staffing levels and therefore people are more likely to be retained and the business cannot be sold without the EOT voting for it.
We are uniquely placed to protect your legacy into the future.
What is reverse retirement?
Retirement has traditionally been a set date based on your birthday when you will suddenly stop working and spend the rest of your days doing hobbies.
For business owners this sudden stop rarely keeps them happy, they tend to unretire, and then come in and out of retirement over time. The impact on the business is also higher when the owner’s knowledge and experience are lost from the business.
At Mobius, we help business owners to step down from their positions, taking on a more mentoring role for the new management team, reducing their responsibilities whilst preparing the team to take over.
Our reverse retirement process is also implemented with staff within the business allowing them to slowly decrease their workload and increase their free time, giving staff flexibility in retirement, whilst retaining knowledge and experience in the team.
Our Office
We are based in Sheffield but cover the whole of Great Britian
Office Hours
Mon-Fri: 9am – 5pm
Sat-Sun: Closed