Signs of Trouble & Industries Served
Symptoms of trouble
- Declining revenue
- Declining gross margins
- Stretched accounts payable
- Sustained losses
- Substantial back taxes
- Vendors require cash on delivery or cash in advance
- High rate of customer credit or discounts taken
- High reliance on few customers
- Low quality acceptance rate/high rework
- Low on-time delivery performance
- High inventory, especially as compared to the current sales level
- High employee turnover
- On-site accidents or incidents
- Demoralized management team/defections
Industries Served
- Printing
- Publishing
- Artificial flower manufacture
- Biotechnology
- Business Forms
- Business-to-Business Catalog
- Construction
- Direct Marketing
- Electronic Assembly
- Flavors and Fragrances
- Food Processing and Preparation-Wholesale
- Footwear Manufacturing and Marketing
- Furniture Manufacture
- Hard goods
- Unfinished furniture
- High Tech
- Holographic Imaging
- Gene Imaging
- Internet Marketing
- Leasing
- Life Sciences
- Manufacturing
- Men's Dress Shoes
- Steel Fabrication
- Furniture
- Home Accessories
- Machine Shop
- Plastics
- Precision Electronic Instruments
- Steel Casting and Forging
- Merger Integration
- Neuroscience Reagents
- Organic Chemistry Lab
- Plastics
- Extrusion
- Injection Molding
- Screen Printing
- Pharmaceutical supplier (GMP)
- Precision Instruments
Types of Engagements
- Interim CFO
- Interim CEO
- Turnaround consultant to management
- Due Diligence-Buyer
- Due Diligence-Lender
- Trustee-Appointed Manager in Ch. 11
- Consultant to Creditor Committee
- Member of Creditor Committee
