12 months ago in April 2023, Jargon Group acquired XL Communications. XL was a B2B tech PR agency billing around £500k. The owner, Chris Bignell, …
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12 months ago in April 2023, Jargon Group acquired XL Communications. XL was a B2B tech PR agency billing around £500k. The owner, Chris Bignell, …
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Divorcing ownership and control in PR agencies The decision-making power of most businesses (including PR agencies) is dominated by an individual person, generally the MD …
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It seems to me that very few agency owners think about how they will exit their business until they want to exit and, then, of …
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I wanted to look again how you, as an Owner, can get a break from running your agency. I wrote a similar post earlier in …
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There’s always a belief when I chat to clients about PR agency M&A that a buyer will come in the form of a trade sale …
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There has been quite a lot of M&A activity in the news recently, especially from PR agency parent groups like Selbey Anderson, Definition Agency and …
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I suspect for every agency owner – after concern over the initial purchase price of their agency – the next biggest worry is the agency …
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The PR agency Mergers and Acquisitions process can be a bit of a mystery, which is quite shocking really. The single most important business …
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