NEWS
Trade Sale Completed
We at Snowball Group are delighted to have just completed the trade sale of Calvin Marketing to TMC Strategic Communications. Calvin Marketing, a successful PR and marketing agency in Cheshire has been in business for 29 years and originally set up by Diana Stephenson. Calvin has worked with high-profile clients…
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ENTREPRENEURS CONFERENCE
A few weeks back I attended the National Entrepreneurs Conference, an annual event I attend in Birmingham, organised by Entrepreneurs Circle. Every year it has a theme that is seen throughout the couple of days event and this year the theme was ‘PERSISTENCE’ and all the speakers and sessions…
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Book Review of ‘The 5AM Club’ by Robin Sharma
I’d heard about Robin Sharma for some time now and seen his name pop up about his work on leadership, personal development and self-help. His ‘5AM Club’ book had been on my reading list for some time, so it was one of the books I took on my recent holiday. …
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Tips for Building Financial Models
At Snowball we produce a lot of complex financial models, whether they be for management accounts, projections, cashflows or for corporate finance transactions such as acquisitions, sales or management buy outs. This will often include modelling to incorporate different scenarios and sensitivities. A well-constructed financial model allows you to…
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Book Review of ‘Brand it like Serhant’ by Ryan Serhant
Ryan Serhant is one of the most successful and the most well-known real estate agents in the world. You may have heard of him as he currently has his own top rated Netflix programme called ‘Owning Manhattan’ and was previously on ‘Million Dollar Listing New York’ – both are my…
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MBO Deal Completed
We at Snowball Group are delighted to have just completed the complex eight-figure Management Buy Out of the North West headquartered Full Circle Events & Exhibitions & Psycho Peacock businesses. Full Circle are an end-to-end event exhibition business with in-house graphics provided through its sister company Psycho Peacock. The group…
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23 BEST PRACTICES TO PREVENT FRAUD
Following on from previous comments and articles on fraud and preventing it, you should never rely on your auditors to spot everything, and this is especially the case given so many of the high-profile failures we’ve seen have included failures by the auditors. Here is a list of 23 best…
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Book Review of “Quiet Leadership: Winning Hearts, Minds and Matches” by Carlo Ancelotti
This month’s book review is another good one. It is a book written by Carlo Ancelotti called ‘Quiet Leadership’ and very timely given earlier this month Carlo as manager of Real Madrid, won this year’s Champions League. This was his fifth win as a manager, making him the most successful…
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MANAGEMENT BUY OUT DEALS (MBO)
We are currently busy advising and completing many Corporate Finance deals including several Company Sales and Management Buy Outs (MBOs). We are regularly asked to explain how these work and therefore thought it would be worth explaining the whole MBO process and considerations in a bit more detail. …
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