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To celebrate the podcast’s third birthday, I’ve been delving back in the archives and picking out some of my favourite interviews and discussions.

This week, we return to the very first episode of the podcast, where I met up with Neville Wright, the founder of Kiddicare, a children’s and nursery retailer, which he sold to Morrissons in 2011 for £70m.
Before it was acquired, Kiddicare was the largest privately owned online retailer of its kind – So I was keen to find out from Neville how the deal came about.

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Welcome to the podcast where you find all the very best information on how to buy and sell businesses and become a successful dealmaker.

As part of our podcast’s third birthday celebrations, we have been delving back into the archives – and this week, we revisit an interview between Jonathan and Martin Dawes, the founder of Coffee Nation, a bean to cup coffee business that he sold to Whitbread, and which was rebranded as Costa Express.

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Welcome to the podcast where you find all the very best information on how to buy and sell businesses and become a successful dealmaker.

Now if you are a regular listener to this podcast, you may be as shocked as I was to discover that just a couple of weeks ago, we celebrated our third birthday.

Since our very first episode way back in April 2018, we have interviewed and spoken with some remarkable people. In the early days, we used to edit each interview into a number of bitesize segments, and then spread them out over a number of episodes.

This was fine at the time, but in hindsight some of the interviews were so rich in content that I believe they deserve to be heard in a single sitting.

I have handpicked four of my favourite interviews from the podcast, and Ed, our podcast producer, has re-edited them so you get to hear each one in full.

This week, we return to August 2018, when I was joined by Mark Supperstone, a Director of the Resolve Group, a company that specialises in acquiring and funding distressed companies. I’ve chosen this particular contribution because of the number of students and clients I meet who are keen to grow by acquiring distressed businesses themselves. It’s not without its risks, but the rewards can be handsome if you get it right.

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Welcome to the podcast where you find all the very best information on how to buy and sell businesses and become a successful dealmaker.

Now if you are a regular listener to this podcast, you may be as shocked as I was to discover that just a couple of weeks ago, we celebrated our third birthday.

Since our very first episode way back in April 2018, we have interviewed and spoken with some remarkable people. In the early days, we used to edit each interview into a number of bitesize segments, and then spread them out over a number of episodes.

This was fine at the time, but in hindsight some of the interviews were so rich in content that I believe they deserve to be heard in a single sitting.

I have handpicked four of my favourite interviews from the podcast, and Ed, our podcast producer, has re-edited them so you get to hear each one in full.

This week, here’s legendary jewellery entrepreneur Gerald Ratner, talking about his business journey, focusing on how he grew his retail empire almost entirely by acquisition.

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Welcome to the podcast where you find all the very best information on how to buy and sell businesses and become a successful dealmaker. In Business Buying Strategies podcast #136, I talk with Jamie Simpson, a member of my private client programme. When I first met Jamie, he told me that he had been interested in buying a business for some time, but that nothing had actually happened.

Since joining the programme he has bought three businesses without risking his own cash. Let’s find out how he did it.

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Welcome to the podcast where you find all the very best information on how to buy and sell businesses and become a successful dealmaker. In Business Buying Strategies podcast #135, I talk with business selling expert, John Warrilow – John hosts an extremely popular longstanding podcast ‘Built to sell radio’ – focused on selling businesses, rather than acquiring them. He is also the author of the international bestselling book Built to Sell, as well as a brand new title published this year called ‘The art of selling your business’

We kicked off with a discussion about John’s two books.

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Welcome to the podcast where you find all the very best information on how to buy and sell businesses and become a successful dealmaker. In Business Buying Strategies podcast #134, we talk about Jonathan’s own mission to build a substantial group of children’s day nurseries through acquisition.

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Welcome to the podcast where you find all the very best information on how to buy and sell businesses and become a successful dealmaker. In Business Buying Strategies podcast #133, we look back at the best bits from the podcast over the past couple of months.

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Welcome to the podcast where you find all the very best information on how to buy and sell businesses and become a successful dealmaker. In Business Buying Strategies podcast #132, we meet Aled Davies, who runs a clothing and textiles printing family business.
Aled had been looking at ways to grow the business organically, before listening to this podcast and joining one of our fastback programmes in 2020. It gave him a new perspective, and he has recently made his first acquisition.

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Welcome to the podcast where you find all the very best information on how to buy and sell businesses and become a successful dealmaker. In Business Buying Strategies podcast #131, we interview former Dragon Den investor James Caan, and talk about many of the acquisitions James has made.

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