FleetGO, located in Hattem, has recently been merged into the FleetGO Group. For this purpose, software investor, Main Capital Partners acquired a controlling interest in the high quality telematics company. In order to create the FleetGO Group, Main also took over the German Wanko. Stratfield advised FleetGO shareholders regarding the takeover.

There are several ways of creating extra shareholder value. The beauty of it is that one way doesn’t exclude the other. On the contrary; a well thought out and creative strategy can take advantage of all the existing opportunities and possibilities in the company to create extra returns. In this blog, we  give you our views on focusing on value based on three levels of value.

What makes one company more successful than the other? McKinsey advisers Chris Bradley, Martin Hirt and Sven Smit carried out no less than 10 years of research into this. The trio involved the 2,400 largest companies in the world in their research. They incorporated all the insights and experiences they had gathered into the book ‘Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick.’ What is the key to success? And how can you also do business ‘beyond the hockey stick’?

Acquiring companies is an attractive and frequently applied growth strategy. Unfortunately, in practice, 70% to 90% of the acquisitions result in failure. Back in 2016, Roger Martin wrote in the Harvard Business Review that ‘M&A is a mug’s game’. But how do you make a success of an acquisition then? In this blog, we will give you some practical tips about this.

You’re thinking of acquiring a certain company. But how do you arrive at the right bid? You don’t want to pay too much. However, you don’t want to be sidelined either by making too low a bid. With so-called multiples, you can make a quick assessment of the market value of the company you are interested in.

Since the end of January, Max Beijer has been travelling to Stratfield every day instead of Windesheim, because he’s doing an internship there until the end of June this year.