OUR COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

A business in crisis with a board under pressure is no place for the inexperienced. Postern brings its long experience to the table to help banks, stakeholders and boards understand all the options available to them and to identify the best means of survival. Postern has an established track record of guiding businesses through difficult times to renewed growth. Firms in trouble are often slow to seek outside help, even though they know that their existing financial advisers, bankers, and accountants, have to prioritize their own interests. They are often unaware that help from specialists like Postern is available. Early pro-active involvement is most beneficial for working towards a solution. Involvement at a later stage in the process makes the task of stabilization much harder.

OUR FOCUS

    Support for Lenders

    • Pre IBR: Operational Due Diligence
    • IBR: Implement
    • New lending: Commercial Validation Service - management/prospects
    • Evaluation: Independent company evaluation for the banks

    Support for Deal-Makers

    • Pre-deal: ODD and business improvement
    • Post-deal: Business improvement

    Support for Business

    • Cash: Manage improvements
    • Change: Drive permanent improvements
    • Strategy: Support/coach management

ABOUT US

    Who we are

    • A cohesive team of highly experienced business professionals
    • "Do-ers", not report-writers, specialist consultants, or HR people

    Accountable

    • Accept responsibility for results

    Implement

    • Implement IBR's
    • Implement banks' internal customer reviews
    • Interim assignments: board level transformational change

    Deliver

    • Typical client return of 10X investment
    • De-Risk the Bank's position

BREADTH OF EXPERIENCE

    Global competence:

    • Europe, N. America, M. East, Asia

    Sector expertise:

    • Aerospace, Automotive, Building, Retail, Supply Chain, Media, Entertainment, IPR, Hospitality, Publishing, Advertising, IT, Engineering, Real Estate, Medical, fmcg, food, business services...

    Technologies:

    • High-precision, low, medium & heavy engineering, paper, power, textile, electronics, manufacturing ops, civil engineering, media production...

    Company Size:

    • Typically £50m to £500m+
    • Single site or Global, multi-site Corporates

A BRIEF HISTORY

  • Postern has been established for 20 years, setting the standard for turnaround and re-structuring services since its formation in 1991
  • Postern's founders are co-founders of the Institute for Turnaround
  • Postern has completed over 250 interim assignments at Director level since its formation
  • We are experienced Business people - we are "do-ers", not HR specialists or report writers
  • We have an experienced Rapid Response Team for speedy response
  • We can advise on raising finance through our in-house team of asset-based lenders