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About us
CompanyRescue is a company specially formed to provide online and telephone
advice services to distressed sole traders, partnerships, companies, their
directors and their advisors. There are many hundreds of such sites proclaiming
to help you, but unlike many of those people we are (in our day jobs) turnaround
specialists and company doctors. As part of the KSA group, CompanyRescue has
helped many thousands of soletraders, directors and their employees through this
website since 2000 on both business and personal levels. We are now into our
sixth year of providing free, high quality advice on line.
Keith Steven is the author of the content on this site. He is managing
director of Company Rescue Ltd and KSA - a specialist firm of turnaround
practitioners. Over 200 companies have been assisted by the author over the last
12 years with assignments ranging from large multi national projects to small
manufacturing companies.
Keith is a member and director of the UK Turnaround Management Association and
an associate of the Turnaround Finance Group. Contact Keith on 0800 9700 539 or
07050 104949 or by email at
keiths@companyrescue.co.uk
Iain Campbell is also a director of KSA. Iain has been involved in the
turnaround sector since late 2001 and has amassed huge experience in that time.
Iain is an expert in the use of the company voluntary arrangement mechanism. He
and his corporate advice team advises clients on their restructure and works
with banks, tax creditors, asset lenders and creditors to ensure a consensus
approach is achieved.
Garry Mumford is KSA’s regional director for the South of England. Garry
is also a member and director of the UK Turnaround Management Association. With
over 15 years of business recovery experience and huge wealth of knowledge on
improving financial reporting in companies he can help restructure your
business. Garry has worked with MBO and MBI teams through good and bad times and
also successfully turned around over 100 companies. Call Garry on 07850 592124.
Call us now on 01289 309431 in (North) or 01279 648 035 (South).
You can find out more about KSA by visiting
www.ksacompanyrescue.co.uk here
you will learn more about our people and our work.
The firm
Over recent years we have determined that there is very little support available
when things start to go against you. Most accountants, bank managers, Business
Link advisors, lawyers and management consultants have insufficient working
knowledge of the UK turnaround or insolvency techniques to be able to guide
distressed companies.
In our experience most insolvency practitioners remain tied to closure
techniques or those methods where fees are greatest. Whilst many IP’s are moving
into the rescue and restructure field they do not communicate with distressed
companies easily. There are few (understandable) books about rescuing your
business - hence this site.
We have identified that when things get tough the help melts away. We have spent
years talking to government bodies, accountants, lawyers, Business Link
advisors, venture capitalists, investors and consultants - all say the same
thing - we don’t know where to find quality, timely and practical advice when
things go wrong.
Our aim (see our mission) is to provide
this advice and information and hopefully to make the user feel that at least
somewhere they can find real help. And although we monitor the number of users
per page, we do not monitor WHO is using the site thereby guaranteeing your
anonymity until you want to talk to us.
Call us or email us, fill out the form on contact us page,
whichever way you contact us we are proud of our ability and willingness to
help.
Obviously there is a commercial motive - we are all in business to make profits
- but we hope that the lack of overt selling messages on the main parts of the
site means that you do not feel hustled to buy anything.
For your clarity our commercial gain will come from providing hands on agreed
turnaround work through our expert company doctors or by commissions from
passing your information (after you instruct us) to commercial funding
organisations who then provide a service to you.
Your views are welcome
We welcome content from like-minded service providers and would welcome feedback
from users of the site - positive or negative. You can send your views by email
to us. We are happy to link to your site (and mutually to ours) if we think it
is suitable and appropriate.
If you have tried our service or used our site for free information please
spread the word! If you have a complaint or comment, please call me personally
on 0800 9700539 and I will answer your comments. I welcome advice on how to
improve the site.
If you need help
Our advice is free at delivery but to cope with demand we ask that you email us,
(or fill out the contact us form or call our
freephone number 0800 9700 539), with a broad outline of the problem and we will
call you back at a time and on a number that will keep our conversation
discrete. Or if you prefer we can send an email confidentiality agreement before
you disclose any of your financial details. To do this please put
confidentiality request in your email title box.
How much does it cost?
Our advice is entirely free until a service or product is offered to your
company, this will be in writing and only after a detailed meeting and analysis
of the company by one of our directors.
Finally -
remember we are here to help. We work all day with distressed businesses,
there is very little that you can tell us that will surprise us! Sometimes a
dispassionate, disconnected look at your business can greatly assist you to
make a decision. So swallow your pride, read this site and then contact us.
Keith Steven
Managing Director
Updated February 2006
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