What customers and business partners say about us

For us as a family business, combined with the many challenges of the future generation change, the support of Mr Koerber was a great benefit. Especially through mediation, we can now understand each other better and deal with conflicts differently. We recommend working with the experts from K.E.R.N. when problems arise in the succession process!

I am happy to have chosen KERN as my advisor in my succession process. In the run-up, I also examined other offers and for me, the seriousness and security of KERN was the decisive criterion. At all times I felt that my KERN ? consultant at all times. Even the particularly difficult tasks, such as financing questions and the drafting of contracts, were solved in the best possible way. From me again and again!

Thank you Mr Lang for the reliable and pleasant cooperation.
I have the pleasant feeling that I have not deceived myself and can and
I will recommend you at any time. L. K.?

Mr. Rehfuß from the KERN location in Stuttgart provided us with competent and professional support at all times during the company takeover. Even difficult phases were handled successfully and promptly. The advice & support was important and helped us in all aspects of this very complex topic.

We were very satisfied with Mr Claus from the KERN company. In particular, his commitment helped us a lot in organising a successful succession for a craft business. We are happy to recommend Mr Claus to others.

Especially in the difficult phases, my advisor closed the gaps and paved the way for a further negotiation.
Everything was professional and reliable, meetings outside normal business hours were possible at any time.
Professionally, I feel comprehensive and in good hands, the successful conclusion is an expression of KERN competence!

I have very much enjoyed working with KERN and, as a representative of the buyer side, am always pleased when sellers ? especially family businesses ? receive holistic advice and are specifically prepared for a sale.

MeinSTABWECHSEL is an exciting method for a sustainable change of leadership in family businesses. With amazing ease, you find your own values and needs.
At the end of the journey, the goal, path and time frame appeared to me as a 3D vision for my personal baton change. So I worked out my ?to do list? myself in the best atmosphere and with the support of KERN.

Rarely has the feedback from the audience been so unanimously positive! You conveyed the topic authentically and with heart in every respect. I hope that family businesses will take advantage of your recommendations.

Thank you for your innovative contribution to our nationwide DIHK Action Day on Business Succession. Focusing on the "soft" issues is in line with our experience of what makes a succession successful. The four phases provide structure and orientation in a very complex process. We'll be happy to do it again on another occasion.

As an entrepreneur with over 40 years of professional experience, you certainly know a lot about a lot of things, but in no way about "succession". :-). I can only highly recommend Nils Koerber and Ingo Claus. Emotionally, humanly and professionally, succession is one of the most difficult tasks that an entrepreneur has to solve. The help, advice & support is worth its weight in gold and has really helped us in all aspects of this very complex topic. And it all worked out.

Without Karl Rehfuß and his often selfless and always optimistic commitment, I would probably have despaired of history long ago. All of us here are really glad to have had exactly this CORE expert at our side in these past difficult times.

What I particularly liked about KERN and Mr Ingo Claus was the very professional and trusting way in which he dealt with me as a company seller and the interested parties. Mr Claus always acted in a solution-oriented manner and was in constant dialogue between me as the seller and the potential buyers. Even though in the end the sale was not concluded, which was due to external circumstances, I was very satisfied with the work done by Kern and Mr Claus and would recommend Kern and him at any time and without reservation.

I would like to thank you very much for your support during the sale of the company. The speed was impressive, the form always appropriate to the situation, the behaviour honest and unpretentious ? it couldn't have been better! Thanks to your support, we were able to conclude this project satisfactorily for all of us.

What I particularly liked about KERN and Mr Ingo Claus was the very professional and trusting way in which he dealt with me as a company seller and the interested parties. Mr Claus always acted in a solution-oriented manner and was in constant dialogue between me as the seller and the potential buyers. Even though the sale was not completed in the end, which was due to external circumstances, I was very satisfied with the work done by KERN and Mr Claus and would recommend KERN and him at any time and without reservation.

I got to know Ingo Claus from KERN as a speaker at a highly recommended workshop on the topic of selling a company. Using many examples, he described the complex process of finding a successor in a very practical way.

Thank you very much for your presentation at our conference. The unanimously positive feedback from the 150 members of the audience confirmed how important your topics are and that you were very convincing as a speaker from KERN.

KERN professionally accompanied and implemented my company sale from start to finish. Finding a buyer was surprisingly quick and the subsequent succession process was competently accompanied and moderated at all times.

Our internal family succession and the coaching of my sons was handled very sensitively and with commitment by Mr Koerber. Many insights and activities would have been left out in our family without the KERN support of our generational change. It helps enormously to get an outside perspective and to have a neutral personality available as a contact person for all members of the family.

When unexpected complications arose during negotiations for the takeover of a practice, I turned to KERN and Mr. Ingo Claus. From the very beginning, I felt professionally accompanied by Mr Claus and that I and my interests were optimally represented. Thanks to Mr. Claus' negotiating skills, his objective, clear, goal-oriented communication, his efforts to find a good solution for both parties to the contract and his outstanding ability to calmly mediate and maintain an overview, a solution satisfactory to both sides (!) was quickly found for the takeover of the practice. Many thanks!

We engaged KERN as part of a seminar to show our association members the various options for succession planning. KERN illustrated the complex topic very well and presented it in an understandable way. The feedback from the seminar participants was consistently positive. We as organisers also had only positive experiences.

Thank you very much for your lively contribution to the BVMW event Company Succession in Practice. Mr Greppmair, you succeeded in a special way in entering the world of the audience - the entrepreneurs affected by the succession - and picking them up where they are particularly emotional. The mixture of lecture and role play was so far unique in its kind and therefore particularly valuable.

In the context of my company succession, the merger with a competitor company was the ideal solution. The KERN team, and especially Mr. Koerber, accompanied us sensitively as a moderator and process facilitator and combined the interests of both negotiating partners well. Without the view from outside and the negotiating experience, we would probably never have reached our goal so quickly and safely!

I got to know Mr Claus in 2010 as part of an expansion project for an owner-managed company. During this time, I came to appreciate his goal-oriented approach and his ability to get to grips with the specifics of family businesses. I am happy to recommend him.

Mr Greppmair from KERN assisted me with the sale of my caretaker service in Munich in an always pleasant and very competent manner. In just nine months, he managed to sell my company at a satisfactory price despite falling sales and the Corona crisis. In doing so, he made a decisive contribution to a new life plan that I had longed for for a long time. Many thanks for that!

If KERN accompanies an investor and develops a business plan with the MBI/MBO, the chances increase significantly that Commerzbank will be available with financing.

KERN's coaching has clearly opened up a path for my son, with which we can now dedicate ourselves together to the project of generational change, in the sense of continuing the family business. We as parents simply cannot convey some things in the same way and help to realise how a professional coach can.

The cooperation over the past months has been characterised by professionalism and trust; I, too, have always felt well represented by you, even though I have been not was your client. All the greater the compliment! MANY THANKS!

By its very nature, there are not multiple opportunities when selling a business. That is why choosing the right management consultant is so important. After a lengthy selection process, we decided on KERN and Holger Habermann. With great personal commitment, Mr. Habermann has successfully mastered all tasks, both in terms of content and management. I would particularly like to emphasise the wide-ranging expertise, the methodical approach, the objective, calm manner and the straightforwardness in the discussion.

My great wish to sell my physiotherapy practice remained unsuccessful despite all my efforts and also several job interviews. With his great, empathetic manner, Mr Greppmair quickly helped me to recognise the real reason. I realised that the cause was me and that I was unconsciously not yet ready to let go. This changed quickly with his help and a short time later I was able to hand over the practice to a competent successor. Many thanks for that!

We had our growth strategy accompanied by the specialists from KERN. With a precise target analysis and detailed market research, we succeeded in finding exactly the right company for our particular niche. The effort involved in such a step should not be underestimated. With KERN, we have found professional support. At the same time, the succession problem of the company to be taken over could be solved substantially and in the long term.

Change also means dealing with the culture, the goals, the responsibilities and the "rules of the game" in a company. With KERN, we have embarked on the exciting path of creating our own individual corporate philosophy and have been surprised at the great energies that have been released in all of us. For the benefit of our customers, employees and the entire company. Thanks to KERN for the targeted and professional moderation and development.

From the very first moment, Mr. Ingo Claus understood how to create a very trusting basis for the start of the project - to form a basis for discussion among the shareholders within the framework of a workshop, so that a very efficient further development of the ideas could take place within the company. We would like to thank you for this very pleasant and trusting cooperation and will gladly recommend your group of companies to others.

The KERN team was recommended to me as part of our company sale and, in retrospect, we are very glad to have received this tip. The negotiation process for the sale was complex, lengthy and sometimes threatened by emotional misunderstandings in the outcome. However, thanks to the great experience and skill of our KERN consultant, we achieved our goal and can definitely recommend working with KERN.

Mr. Ingo Claus had accompanied us in the difficult task of finding a suitable successor for our expert office. We owe the unexpectedly successful sale of our company to him. Mr Claus has a fine sense for tricky negotiating situations, skilfully and calmly he finds the right ideas for solutions that are acceptable to both contracting parties. Mr Claus accompanied the project with a wealth of experience, knowledge of human nature and negotiating skills. We are happy to recommend him.

In my search for a competent advisor who would professionally support me in the sale of my company, Norbert Lang was recommended to me. And indeed, I was not promised too much, from the valuation through all stages of the process of preparing the sale to the signing of the contracts, Mr Lang was always a very knowledgeable companion and advisor. I can recommend him with a clear conscience!

We have had very good experience with Norbert Lang in particular. He is an extremely serious and competent contact person when accompanying succession processes. As a lecturer at lecture events, he impresses with his very lively and authentic style.

Our clients are medium-sized companies and the challenges of generational change, company sales or emergency provisions are 'perennial issues' for us. We have been working with Mr Koerber and KERN for years and value his practical knowledge and the oriented training and coaching. Parents and children from family businesses benefit from this in a very tangible way.

My pre-selection decision to 100% proved to be the right one. KERN did a really good job from the preparation of my company in an exposé, to the search for buyers, to the facilitation of negotiations and the complete implementation of my succession. In particular, the seriousness and professionalism gave me a secure feeling at all times. Our goal was successfully achieved in a good 8 months. I am happy to recommend KERN to others.