Business Succession: Who Will Carry Your Life’s Work into the Future?

Business Succession: Who Will Carry Your Life’s Work into the Future?

Many entrepreneurs in the paper and packaging industry will, sooner or later, face one of the most important decisions of their lives:

Who will take over my company?

In the coming years, many owner-managed companies in the industry will need to find a solution to success. However, a successful transition is anything but simple.

A suitable successor must bring much more than just the financial means to acquire a business. What truly matters are qualities such as:
   • entrepreneurial thinking
   • leadership strength
   • industry expertise
   • genuine understanding of the company’s culture

Because one thing is clear:
The wrong successor can destroy in a very short time what has been built over decades.

The Difference: The Right Successor – Not Just a Buyer!

That is exactly why we take a different approach:

As a specialized consultancy with over 25 years of executive search experience in the paper, printing, and packaging industry, we do not focus on selling a company – but on finding the right successor.

We specifically identify entrepreneurial personalities who truly fit the company – professionally, personally, and culturally.

Our clients benefit from:
   • an exceptionally strong industry network
   • many years of executive search experience
   • a structured evaluation of potential successors
   • verification of the candidates’ financial capabilities

Strengthening Business Succession and M&A – also at BGH Consulting!

With the addition of Oliver Taudien as a partner and senior consultant, we have further expanded our expertise in business succession and M&A.

Oliver Taudien has more than 25 years of international leadership experience in the paper and packaging industry, as well as extensive experience in M&A transactions.

This enables us to support entrepreneurs throughout the entire succession process:
   • from identifying the right successor
   • to structuring the transaction
   • to the successful transfer of ownership – including potential financing models for buyers

If you are an entrepreneur in the paper, printing, or packaging industry and are considering your succession, feel free to contact us confidentially.