Handing over your business
You have built your business over decades and would rather see it carry on than close. SAMAS takes it over and keeps it running, under its own name and with its own people.
What stays
- Your name
- It stays above the door. Customers and property managers reach the business as before.
- Your team
- Your employees stay. Employment contracts transfer with the business. We pay above the collective agreement and give the whole team a share of the profit.
- The trade
- A Meister leads the work, ideally someone from your own team. SAMAS takes care of purchasing, administration and financing.
- Your customers
- You introduce your key customers yourself. Most owners stay on for about two years, and if you wish, you keep a stake.
How a handover works
First conversation
In person, at your premises or wherever you prefer. Confidential and without obligation.
Getting to know the business
The team and the figures, under a confidentiality agreement. We ask questions before we make an offer.
Offer
A written letter of intent with the price, the timetable and your role. The price is based on the sustainable earnings of your business.
Financing and contract
Your bank, development banks and a notary. From letter of intent to signing we plan ten to eighteen weeks.
Handover
Step by step, without disruption for customers or staff.
The businesses we look for
Heating, plumbing and air conditioning, and the neighbouring trades: electrical, refrigeration and ventilation. Building cleaning from 2027.
Usually €1 million to €5 million in revenue and 10 to 25 employees, with a steady base of service and maintenance work. GmbH or sole proprietorship, with no successor in the family or the business.
We start in North Rhine-Westphalia: the Aachen region first, then the Cologne and Düsseldorf districts.
Discretion
No one learns of our conversation, not your employees, your customers or your competitors, unless you want them to.
Questions owners ask
How is the price set?
On the sustainable earnings of recent years, adjusted for one-off effects. As is usual in successions, part of the price can be paid later. We discuss this openly in the first conversation.
How long do I stay after the handover?
Usually two years, so that customers and the team get to know the new management with you at their side. We agree the details together.
Is the first conversation binding?
No. It is confidential and without obligation.
Talk to me
I am Daaksh Patel, the founder of SAMAS. Call me or write to me, and I will come to you.
+49 176 358 966 22[email protected]