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Sell Your Training Provider

Sell your training provider business with Hilton Smythe for expert insight, with access to a marketplace with tens of thousands of businesses in the sector.

Selling your business is daunting and feels like a risky process, especially if you’re not confident in managing the process alone. Most likely, you’ll run into a number of difficulties, and you’ll have to navigate the differing selling options, understanding the benefits and drawbacks of each of them before you make the right decision.

Working with an experienced business and finance broker helps navigate this process, ensuring you decide on the best possible exit strategy from your training provider. We’ll help with the business valuation process, as well as giving expert insight at every stage of your selling journey.

How you can sell your training provider business

There are a few primary different ways to sell a training provider business:

Employee Ownership Trusts (EOTs) - Enables business owners to sell their training provider business to an employee owned trust, avoiding the burden of Capital Gains Tax. This is a government initiative to encourage employee ownership.
Management Buyout (MBOs) - Selling the business to the management team, allowing them to buyout the current owners. This may be through equity buyout, leveraged buyout, or vendor financing.
Trade Sale - Selling your training provider directly to another business, allowing for a clean break and smooth transition for the company.

The process of selling a training business

Selling your training provider business should follow this process:

Prepare your business for sale - Determine the major selling points of your business, as well as what might be holding a sale back and deterring your potential buyers. You should also make sure any internal disputes or issues are resolved, to allow for a clean handover.
Talk to a broker - Contact experienced business brokers to help you understand how you need to market your business, and talk you through the selling process, ensuring the best possible outcome for yourself.
Seek a business valuation - We’ll help you look at assets, team, reputation and your price to earnings ratio to give you an accurate valuation of your business. This will help potential buyers to see the strong and potentially weaker points of your training provider business.
Begin advertising - Hilton Smythe has access to a database with tens of thousands of potential registered buyers, meaning your business will achieve maximum exposure and drastically increase your chances of selling.
Complete your sale - With the help of a solicitor, ensure the terms of the agreement are laid out in full, and are fully understood and accepted by both parties. Depending on the type of sale you achieve, the process of finalising will vary slightly.

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Training provider business valuation

Vital to selling your business is understanding what it may be worth. The Hilton Smythe training provider business calculator takes into account aspects such as net profit, turnover, existing customers, contract value, compliance with regulations and much more in order to provide an accurate valuation range for your business.

The benefit of using this calculator is that it’s free to use and bespoke to your organisation in your industry.

Use our training provider business valuation calculator.

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Selling a training provider with Hilton Smythe

Simplify the stressful selling process by partnering with Hilton Smythe. We’ll assist you through all aspects of the journey, and provide you with access to a database with a wide audience for your training provider business, helping you to get the best possible deal, with the lowest amount of stress.

Our business advisors are ready to help you sell your training provider business in between £1M and £20M. We’re dedicated to understanding you and your organisation in depth, so we can aid you in achieving your goals.

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