Individual corporate development

 

Tailored to you and your company

 

German Drechsler, founder and senior partner of the THINK Group

 

Corporate developer with heart. Competent, reliable, honest.

 

We do not want to simply provide advice, but support you in developing your company further. As corporate developer, we have already been supporting companies since 1994 on their path to a successful future. From the foundation and growth including process support up to crisis consulting and a succession plan – we provide integrated strategic management consulting, individually tailored to the needs of your company.

 

THINK stands for personal support, specifically adapted to you and your company. The building blocks of our consultancy services are our heart, common sense and a real, authentic understanding of values. We are not theorists with unrealistic expectations, but together with you, immerse ourselves in practical application without hesitation. We act on the fundamentals of the respectable business person

 

Results-oriented

Strong

Lasting

INTEGRATED CORPORATE DEVELOPMENT SINCE 1994

 

Well-advised from the start.

Our services

Corporate development tailored to your requirements

Welcome to Germany! We support internationally acting and foreign companies, business people and investors who wish to become economically active in Germany with our special advisory service.

 

If you want to become entrepreneurially active in Germany, you are safe with us. We offer all required services for the opening of dependent/independent subsidiaries, the foundation, acquisition or shareholding in companies. We also support you in finding cooperation partners, new customers or suppliers, in the development of distribution channels and investment opportunities.

We adapt to your individual requirements and develop tailored solutions and concepts for a smooth and successful market entry in Germany. You will not only benefit from our know-how in this, but most of all from our numerous contacts and a comprehensive network of reliable partners.

 

The future of your company starts with the right strategy!
Because: “If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favourable to him!” (Seneca)

 

As corporate developer, we help you to find the best “port”. We support you in developing ideas, with future and strategic development, provide you with sound planning and inspire with innovative, partially unusual but efficient approaches, so you can stand out from the crowd! We uncover connections for you and help to make the right decisions for your company. Our aim is to make your company efficient and future-proof and ensure your long-term corporate development.

 

The THINK Group reliably prepares companies and entrepreneurs for market changes and equips them for an efficient and long-term future. Each process starts with questions and problem definitions and ends – together with THINK – with individual and results-oriented answers and solutions and the realisation of your corporate visions.

 

Do you need financing? We will develop a comprehensive and at the same time sustainable financing concept together, which is individually tailored to the needs of your company.

 

 

Whether you want to lay foundations, purchase new machines, implement construction plans, bridge over weak market conditions, reorder your finances or expand – we support you with your financing plans.

To implement this, we cooperate with numerous banks and support you – also during negotiations with your house bank – until procurement of funds has been successful.

 

  • Credit management from new crediting to debt restructuring
  • Financing concepts incl. public financial support and subsidies
  • Inclusion of public and country-specific funding establishments
  • Realisation of financial plans incl. negotiations up to readiness for signing
  • Comprehensive preparation of figures incl. profitability and liquidity planning

 

For your company to be successful in future as well, it is important to fully understand the here and now and detect changes early. Nothing is more suitable for this purpose than figures!

 

We check and analyse your figures and help you with your financial and investment planning, create financing concepts and negotiate with banks. We ensure a positive corporate development and long-term success of your company with the required transparency and solid controlling.

 

  • Cost control & target-actual comparison
  • Profitability planning & liquidity management
  • Development & controlling of action plans in all business units
  • Personnel development incl. the introduction of new remuneration models
  • Reporting to financial partners and the house bank

 

Time for new approaches? Take these with us!

 

Change, growth, opening up new markets, acquisition or sale of companies, attracting new partners or shares, all of this leads to new approaches. We would love to support you in taking these steps, strategically and operationally. We will further expand your lines of business, processes and resources together with you, or realign these – always with best possible approaches and individual solutions. We will never lose sight of the different framework parameters and market changes.

Do you have a promising business idea? Excellent! Your visions become a successful reality with us!

 

As experts of corporate development, we know the number of initial difficulties. It is important to handle business, organisational and personal topics and aspects in the right way. We have the required contacts and networks to cover all facets with regard to your foundation and to get you started successfully.

We will also be happy to already assist you in firming up your start-up project. We create business plans and foundation concepts – also for presentation at banks and funding establishments – which are precisely tailored to you and your plans. We will also support you with regard to the procurement of funds. From firming up to realisation of your project and beyond that, we are the perfect point of contact!

 

Every crisis holds great opportunities! It is important to adapt to new conditions. We help you to recognise crises and opportunities equally.

 

Based on an in-depth analysis of the causes and circumstances, we work out a suitable restructuring concept with you to guide you out of this phase with renewed strength – up to a successful turn-around. Our restructuring concepts support you in all phases of reorientation. We start with working out a viable future model, negotiations with banks and investors and support you in implementing strategic, operative and fiscal remediation measures. We help investors, banks, suppliers, customers, but most of all yourself to regain trust in your company.

 

Our services also include coaching during all phases of the restructuring process. We will show you openly and clearly where the pitfalls and difficulties are. If a continuation no longer seems reasonable in our view, we will also support you with regard to further processing. We also create restructuring plans and reports (according to IDW S6 standard) as well as continuance prognoses on request and as required by financing partners.

 

We as corporate developers place a special focus on early recognition of crises. According to the motto “Avoiding crises instead of managing them”, we will be pleased to subject your company to a fitness check to be able to detect possible sources of danger early!

 

It is lonely at the top! We are there for you and you can count on us as sparring partner!

 

When leading your company you do not have to go it alone. We help with constructive discussions, information and impulses, finding and addressing new perspectives and solutions.

As your personal coach and corporate coach, we support you amongst others…

 

  • in all company phases
  • during the realisation of your personal corporate visions
  • with important corporate decisions that are upcoming
  • when dealing with strategic and new directions, ideas, investments and projects
  • in all bottleneck situations, difficulties and problems within the company
  • with regard to all business questions
  • with regard to all financial questions
  • in case of personal and family confrontations with all participants in the course of planned, organisational and managerial, social and financial changes

 

Have you already set the course for your future? We make sure that your life´s work is continued on – in the best possible hands!

 

We support entrepreneurs and companies confidentially and discretely when implementing succession processes and projects. This topic can sometimes carry with it heavy emotional implications, and we guarantee to handle this with great sensitivity!

Whether it is family succession, succession by someone external, MBI / MBO or a sale, we are experts for succession concepts and will support you all the way, including a complete asset succession with a substantial estate and several persons involved.

 

  • Comprehensive analysis & assessment of the company
  • Optimisation & preparatory measures for succession
  • Development of successor models
  • Conceptual, bankable planning of the successor model
  • Coaching & support throughout the process
  • Moderation for the development of a “mutual language”
  • Determination of preferences & formulation of solutions which meet the needs of everyone involved
  • Verification of the successor’s / purchaser’s suitability on all levels (professional, personal, financial)
  • Integrated asset succession
  • Implementation of succession up to the final handing over to the successor / purchaser
  • Continued moderation & support of parties / generations after implementation of succession

Customer testimonials

Why companies count on THINK

Since our foundation in 1994, more than 500 customers have relied on our competence and performance.

Our network

Together for the best solution,

together for your company.

 

 

 

As corporate consultant, BDU membership (Bund Deutscher Unternehmensberater / German Association of Consultants) is a matter of course for us and a seal of approval for our quality of advice. In addition, German Drechsler also holds the title “Certified Management Consultant (CMC/BDU)”. For you this means you have a reliable and qualified partner at your side for absolute certainty.

 

 

You benefit from our long-standing experience as corporate developer, the creation of industry-specific expertise, comprehensive know-how as well as a strong and varied Germany-wide and international network.