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Life with a business shouldn’t feel like an endless cycle of chaos, constantly reacting to crises and putting out fires. It’s easy to feel like you’re too busy to focus on long-term planning, but the truth is, investing time in planning now will actually save you time down the road. A well-thought-out strategy, a clear structure, and some flexibility built into the plan will allow your business to run more smoothly, freeing you up to focus on development and growth.

An organised structure doesn’t mean rigidity – it’s about creating a framework that works for both your short-term needs and your long-term goals. It’s about finding that sweet spot where your operations are most efficient, and your team has enough flexibility to be creative and responsive. Your business plan should reflect your company’s vision and values. When you develop this plan now, you create an opportunity to align your entire team around a shared goal.

This shared vision fosters better communication, reduces misunderstandings, and helps prevent errors that can disrupt the flow of your operations. Everyone will be on the same page, and that alignment means fewer unexpected hiccups or costly missteps.

Starting your planning now gives you the time and space to set clear objectives, identify potential obstacles, and build a strategic plan that ensures your team is fully prepared to meet the challenges ahead. This foresight will provide clarity for everyone involved, helping to create a stronger, more unified, and efficient organisation.

So, why wait? Let’s start planning today. Together, we can lay the foundation for a successful and sustainable future for your business – we are always here to help.

With a disastrous standing at the local elections, many Conservative MPs are mulling over the probability of being in a much smaller party, and in opposition after the general election, next year. Businesses right across the economy should be sure that they understand the implications of a Labour government to their business and their industry.A future Labour government has all but confirmed that it will commit to a review of business taxes and move away from what it calls an “11th hour approach”, which the party believes is currently holding back investment.

There is a simplistic logic doing the rounds in the Labour camp that dividend tax should be in line with general taxation rates, but ‘try at your peril’, there are many small businesses whose very existence would be at risk if they were taxed more on their dividend ‘income’. There is real fragility in this large group of business owners and the landscape would quickly change with many small businesses hanging up their boots rather than having to cope with yet another cash struggle.

We are likely to enter a phase of ‘big is beautiful’ in business and the shift towards larger companies will transform the landscape for decades to come. If you have any thoughts of retiring in the coming years, don’t wait around for these probable changes to control the narrative, think seriously about moving sooner rather than later. Labour may or may not be good for British business, but action now will certainly protect your retirement fund.

If you are considering selling your brokerage within the next five years, you should read on.

Business sales firms will tell you the biggest threat to our future is changing the taxation regime (and the loss of entrepreneur’s relief as was). However, there is one other major factor that you really need to focus in on when you’re looking at your future.

Sir Keir Starmer has already said that it is iniquitous that capital gains tax is a different rate to income tax, and I’m sure he will get round to increasing capital gains tax to 40% in line with income tax. However, this is not the main threat to your business. The biggest scare if labour is elected, as seems likely at this stage, is that all the Baby Boomer businesses out there having lived through previous labour governments are going to say enough. If they are within retirement distance, they’re going to try to sell the firms before the taxation regime changes and the penalise the rich attitude of labour start to bite. That being the case, there is likely to be a mass exodus of clients from their industries leaving you with a very much diminished client pool. This means that most businesses will be on the downturn if they try to sell, but more importantly, if they sell to a consolidator the 2 years buy out is likely to be adversely affected by the economic environment at that time.

Essentially, if you are considering retiring in the next five years, you need to speak to us now to see what the options are for ways in which you can protect your major investment i.e. your business.

Give us a call or email, it will potentially change your life.

The landscape in Regional Commercial Broking has changed out of all recognition given the sale activity in this sector of late.

Larger Commercial brokers have been selling faster than properties in the past couple of years, reaching eye watering multiples. There is now a dirge of larger Independent brokers available, leading consolidators to eye up some smaller Brokers.

A well-balanced portfolio with a substantial commercial book is a key driver of price as well as high retention, expense control, good loss experience and continuance of management.

The opportunity to sell is not likely to last forever, and signs of softening a piece, particularly with Brokers below £5m GWP has recently been experienced. Who knows just how long these unprecedented prices can continue?

If you are thinking about a possible sale of your Brokerage you need to accept that achieving the best price whilst fulfilling softer issues, like staff and location, is all about presenting your business in the best possible light. Something that Brokerring specialises in.

Sign us up to exclusively sell your business and we will immediately set to work on making sure that your Brokerage has and presents the best value for potential buyers, ensuring you of the best price and situation for your sale needs.

We don’t see the current market lasting forever, don’t become one of those who wished that they’d taken advantage when it was available…call Brokerring now to arrange an early meeting, you certainly won’t regret it.