247 | UK Enterprise Awards 2020 be complacent about their strategies. During a time of adversity, the Biramis team believe it is important that they fight back against the default future that will push them backwards if they do not respond. It is its extraordinary level of care and commitment to their clients and their business, as well as their innovation which has put Biramis on the map as being the Best Strategic Management Consultancy in 2020. Company: Biramis Management Partners Contact: Christiane Hutchinson Email:
[email protected] Web Address: www.biramis.com Jun20530 Best Strategic Management Consultancy 2020 Biramis Management Partners are award-winning business value builders and exit strategy management specialists. Having built a reputation as being one of the best strategic management consultancies in the industry today, we decided to take a closer look at the firm and its founder and CEO, Christiane Hutchinson to find out more about Biramis’ meteoric rise to success. With over two decades worth of experience working with a diverse range of business owners in countries spanning from France, Japan, Ireland and in the UK, Christiane decided to address a common challenge that most business owners have: not being able to realise enough value for their company when they decide to pass it on. Whether it is to an external buyer, members of their next family generation or even members of their current management and leadership team, Christiane wanted to find a way that would enable business owners to overcome these obstacles. The result? Biramis. Biramis turns clients’ businesses into valuable assets that will command a much higher price on exit, in contrast to if they did nothing about it instead passively waiting for the market to dictate the value for them. Some clients do not want to sell, but they enjoy the benefits that a ‘best in breed’ business brings: sustainable growth through a well-recognised and positioned brand, profit, an engaged staff and workforce, suppliers and providers of finance to name but a few. Acting as the equity build team for clients, Biramis works in parallel with the management and leadership teams to create impact in the key areas of the business that will drive value increase. Switching to becoming a hands-on member of the team at the execution phase, the firm act like an internal/ interim exit strategy team, rather than spot consultants. The firm works in a non-disruptive fashion, while ensuring they ‘bolt on’ their value creation activities onto the day to day, because this is where it all happens. The team encompasses finance, operations, marketing and sales, digital, business and corporate strategy. No one person on their own could deliver such an integrated offering. Biramis is a very strong team. One of the most notable and endearing features of Biramis, is the small team that forms the foundation of the business. As a small and growing business, the services they provide is very personable, as they take the time to truly understand the needs and end goals of their clients. Whilst the firm has plans to expand, one thing they want to avoid is growing into a ‘process-driven’ type of business, with a mere transactional mindset at the core. They believe strongly in the power of relationships because of the nature of what they do. The team take great pride in what they do because of how it transforms people’s lives and the impact it has. For Biramis, it is more than just business, it is about the people behind it. Making sure a business owner(s) achieves their wealth goals and the due capital value at exit is not just a transaction. It takes trust because the journey is full of difficult and sometimes tough decisions, choices and options, and Biramis is always there to help weigh the best course of actions. There are matters that are not spreadsheet based! Bernard Kelly, Biramis Chairman and previous founder and CEO at Benson’s for Beds is lending his experience and support to the team, having himself completed a very high profile exit in the past “I acquired a lot of businesses as I was building Benson’s for Beds in the past, and it is nice now to turn the table and be on the side of the entrepreneurs trying to maximise their value well in advance of selling or passing on their business”. As the firm puts plans in place for the future, one of their main ambitions in the years to come is to grow Biramis into a well-defined, global niche company. In the short term, the team is working on strengthening their base in the north west in the upcoming months, as well as expand into other regions of the UK. Biramis is proud to have been appointed a Partner by the Minister for the Northern Powerhouse. With the pandemic as a backdrop, and Brexit coming up in 2021, it is difficult to think about how the market will naturally behave. Which is why, the firm are urging businesses not to Bernard Kelly, Chairman Christine Hutchinson, CEO