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Venturn Ltd is a niche Operational Turnaround Management practice that has extensive experience of supporting businesses with growing pains, underperformance or have become distressed. We deliver sustainable improvements to the bottom line, but more importantly to cash. We don't just provide financial re-engineering, we go beyond the balance sheet and improve how the business operates and enhance what it actually does. We include operations, strategy, sales & marketing and finance amongst our core skills. We deliver leadership when it is really required.

The team has worked successfully together for over 12 years and embraces a full set of requisite skills and talents. Our Associate Partners are well known to us and demonstrated a competence and capability.

We are flexible, but specialise in supporting businesses that design, develop, manufacture or distribute a product or service. Typically they turnover between £3m and £25m.

What we do

We are asked to get involved for the following reasons.

• Recovering bank debt
• Rebuilding investor confidence in an under-performing investment
• Working in distressed or underperforming businesses
• Building or restoring confidence with Customers
• Getting the best out of the supply Chain
• Advising and implementing changes in business strategy Forming and bedding down mergers & acquisitions
• Working through a financial reconstruction

We work for lenders, investors, or the trading company and amongst other placements, are often used in the following ways.

• Interim Director placement
• Non-Executive Director placement
• Business Advisor placement
• Profit & Cash Improvement Plans
• Best Practice & Lean implementations
• Offshore outsourcing initiatives
• Operational Improvements

Venturn Ltd uses a specialist team of experienced business professionals who provide the skill to get things moving in a positive, new direction. We provide a focused, no-nonsense approach to fixing the underlying problems within a business.

How we do it

Our approach is to work co-operatively with you, using the skills and experience of our team to supplement your in-house skills. We believe that we can add value in that we can provide an objective approach, coupled with experience of what has worked in other businesses and the time to spend on a project when your management team is working on day to day affairs.

Business Strategy

• Business Coaching
• Brain storming sessions
• Turnaround CEO/MD
• Interim CEO/MD
• Opportunity & Threat analysis
• KPI assessment & implementation

Sales & Marketing

• Top line growth
• Market penetration
• New sales drives
• Monitoring the sales pipeline
• Agents networks
• Gross margin improvements

Operations

• Lean implementation
• Leadtime reduction
• Delivery performance
• MRP improvement
• Visual controls
• Kanban implementation
• Supply chain management
• Project management

Outsourcing

• Supply chain analysis
• Match supplier with clients
• Full QA on potential suppliers - design, communications, operations, finance and product quality
• Risk Analysis
• Justification and cost/benefit assessment
• Project management

Finance

• Forecast creation
• Forecast validation
• Profit Improvement plan
• Cash Improvement plan
• Refinancing
• Reconstruction

Other Contacts

Jas Atwal 020 7100 3955 email jas@venturn.com