Welcome to MBC
Manton Business Consulting helps businesses simplify and resolve a comprehensive range of commercial challenges. Whether you’re a Business Owner, Executive or Investor, we deliver expert advisory services, with the focus on helping you to achieve your goals through strategic decision making.
Simplifying commercial challenges
MBC is an independent and highly responsive advisory providing high quality, client focussed advice and solutions with a pragmatic approach. We work to ensure your targets and deliverables are met and provide you and your business with relevant information and support in areas ranging from: expanding your business; reworking your strategy; preparing to sell or even acquiring new companies. Our working ethos begins with transforming your company’s mindset through clarity and concise consulting.
With over 25 years’ experience leading and developing businesses in the UK and Asia Pacific, we combine proven business expertise, regional and industry knowledge with highly effective tools to provide actions that address your business needs.
The Critical Pillars Of Business Growth
We believe in three Critical Pillars of Business Growth, and focus our support in aiding your business around these ‘Three S’s’:
- Sustainable
- Scalable
- Shareholder Value
Due to the continually evolving world of business, you may find yourself as a business owner or key decision maker, facing a lack of time, experience or qualified staff to help overcome certain problems. However, by working with MBC and following strategies built around our three critical pillars of business growth, you and your business are much more likely to be able to adapt and thrive.
SUSTAINABLE
Successfully building a business requires formulating a sound and sustainable strategy. A strategy such as this must protect your company’s reputation to build long lasting customer satisfaction. By driving employee engagement and innovation from the outset you will help cultivate and retain top-level talent. It should also demonstrate compliance and lead to market differentiation. Once these components are brought together in a carefully crafted and aligned strategy, your company will begin to see long-term growth and profitability.
SCALABLE
Although it sounds counterintuitive, the very business model, products and services that led to your company’s fast growth may need to change as your organisation grows. Without an up-to-date reviewing process, you may find your business – and its initial growth – begins to falter. When the time comes for you to adjust your business model to ease the growth process, fundamental change is required at a philosophical level to move the business from where it began as ‘founder driven’ to where it should be as ‘process driven’. In a private company, this takes time but is necessary to achieve scalability across the business. When a company is scalable, it often commands a valuation premium against its peers, rising above competitors.
SHAREHOLDER VALUE
Shareholder Return has a number of definitions, but we outline it as: the extent of actions taken by those in management positions, that in turn enrich the company’s shareholders. Shareholder’s money, in theory, should be utilised by senior decision makers to earn a better return on investment for the shareholder, than what they could earn investing elsewhere, with the same level of risk.
STRATEGY & EXECUTION
The direction of your business is determined by the creation and implementation of your business strategy. How your business will look in the future relies upon the clarity of your strategy, and through careful planning and forecasting, you can build a positive narrative and become better equipped to achieve your goals.
Executive Coaching
Coaching professionals for an executive position begins with effective self-improvement. Manton Business Consulting provides a vehicle for effective, bespoke improvement processes. With best in class assessment tools and judgement free approach, MBC act as an impartial guide for you to think and plan your own development, as well as the development of your organisation, to the next level.
MANTON TOWNEND
Principle
Management Fundamentals For Expanding Overseas
Manton Townend, business consultant and founder of Manton Business Consulting, discusses the important things to consider when taking your office to a new location overseas. Having worked in some of the world’s largest staffing companies during the past 30 years,...
Key Steps To Help You Scale Up Your Business
Do you sometimes struggle with time management, creating practical action steps and then executing them efficiently? Creating scalability allows businesses to flourish – sustainably. Scaling – not be confused with growing - is about improving your efficiency as you...
Build Trust and Mitigate Risk in a M&A Transaction
Following on from the previous article on building trust in an M&A deal, I explored the wants that both parties need to achieve, to ensure that the deal goes through. I want to delve into some of the pitfalls, how to avoid them with some practical hints and tips to ensure an amicable solution.
Avoiding a black hole – knowing your business with confidence in a Merger & Acquisition
What I have found during my business life is that in the heat of trying to acquire or sell a business some fundamentals get glossed over in the hope that it will all turn out ok, as long as the principle objective of buy or sell has been achieved. Therefore, you need to understand your odds of succeeding and if the challenges are worth the effort.
Building Trust in an M&A Transaction
Having spent the last 18 years in Asia working for global staffing companies who have increased their footprint in Asia, I been involved in opening 8 countries – grown management teams to run the businesses from $30 million to over $200 million pa, internal headcount of over 500 personnel, I have been very hands on with four very different M&A deals.