K.E.R.N - Die Nachfolge­spezialisten opens offices in Frank­furt and Mainz

The nation­wi­de consul­ting firm K.E.R.N - Die Nachfolge­spezialisten is streng­thening its presence in Frank­furt and Mainz. Two new locati­ons support small and medium-sized enter­pri­ses in genera­tio­nal change and corpo­ra­te succes­si­on in Hesse and Rhine­land-Palati­na­te. The contact persons are Thomas Dörr for the Frank­furt locati­on and Klaus Eckert at the Mainz location.

In Hesse and Rhine­land-Palati­na­te alone, around 15,000 compa­nies will be affec­ted by a compa­ny succes­si­on in the next ten years”, says Thomas Dörr. In additi­on to the issue of succes­si­on, it is also a questi­on of securing the jobs of around 250,000 employees in these companies.

15,000 compa­nies face business succes­si­on in Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate

In times of demogra­phic change, the hando­ver of business manage­ment to a family member or to an exter­nal business succes­sor is a major chall­enge for the regio­nal econo­my, even in the regions of Hesse and Rhine­land-Palati­na­te that are stron­gly charac­te­ri­sed by small and medium-sized enterprises.

We are very famili­ar with the challenges associa­ted with the highly sensi­ti­ve and emotio­nal topic of succes­si­on planning. After all, who likes to deal with the hando­ver of their entre­pre­neu­ri­al respon­si­bi­li­ty? says
Klaus Eckert. For him, the conside­ra­ti­on of emotio­nal factors is just as important as the prepa­ra­ti­on of the objec­ti­ve valua­ti­on of a compa­ny and the attrac­ti­ve presen­ta­ti­on of the compa­ny, as well as the clari­fi­ca­ti­on of tax and legal issues.
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It is important that business succes­si­on is planned early and as a strate­gic project, becau­se a succes­si­on project takes one to three years on average.

Nils Koerber, founder of K.E.R.N - The Succes­si­on Specia­lists is pleased about the new opening of the two locati­ons: With Thomas Dörr, we were able to gain a proven M&A specia­list for medium-sized compa­nies and Klaus Eckert, an experi­en­ced family entre­pre­neur. With this, we are also making our contri­bu­ti­on to a successful genera­tio­nal change in the region, which is charac­te­ri­sed by many strong medium-sized companies.”

Current: Workshop on business succession

K.E.R.N regular­ly organi­s­es workshops for poten­ti­al business succes­sors. The range of events is aimed at interes­ted parties and entre­pre­neurs who want to take over a compa­ny as part of an age-related succes­si­on. More infor­ma­ti­on on the current workshops is available at here.

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