Our story
Why Acquity exists.
Most owners sell a business once. We think they should sell it to someone who understands what they are handing over.
The problem
Too many good businesses have no succession plan.
An owner spends twenty or thirty years building a business and a few months deciding who takes it next, usually when they start to wind down, or when health or family forces the question. By then there is no plan, only whoever happens to be buying that year.
That is how good businesses end up with a fund that runs them from a spreadsheet, a first-time buyer who learns the job on your team, or a competitor who wants your customers and not much else. A succession plan is what lets an owner choose the next owner, rather than take the one that turns up.
Where we come from
Operators before investors.
Our partners have spent their careers inside businesses: starting them, building them, scaling them and acquiring competitors. That meant learning first hand what keeps a team together through a change of owner, and what drives it apart.
Acquity is where that experience goes now. We buy businesses with the judgement of people who have run one, and we put it to work for the team that stays.
Our answer
Buy well. Look after the people. Add what we know.
We buy businesses that are already profitable and well managed. We are not buying them to rebuild them. We are buying them to own them, and we bring our experience, expertise and strategy wherever the business can use it.
For the people who work there, the change should feel like a steady pair of hands, not a new regime. People are the core of a business, and a plan that forgets them does not survive a Monday morning.
When an owner steps away, the best thing for the team is a next owner who has done the job before.AcquityWhy operators make better buyers
If you want your business in experienced hands, we should talk.
An hour, in confidence, with no obligation on either side.