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Succession and Transfer

Companies ahead of succession

Companies whose management is reaching the age at which the handover to a next generation becomes a matter for decision.

The occasion

In every company there comes a point at which the management must decide on its succession. Whether the business passes to family members, to its own management team, to a competitor or to an investor, the decision falls within a limited window of time, and it is rarely taken without advice.

The selection can be refined by industry, federal state, age of management, years since incorporation and distance from a location of your choice. Each entry shows the oldest member of management together with the year of birth.

Who works with this list

  • Succession advisers and M&A boutiques
  • Savings banks, cooperative banks and private banks
  • Search funds and entrepreneurial holding companies
  • Private equity investors with a buy and build strategy
  • Business transfer platforms

What each row contains

Company Legal form Street Postcode City Federal state Industry Register court Register number Incorporated Share capital Management Oldest member of management Year of birth Age Website Telephone People in management Distance (km)

The report on this theme

The generational question in the German Mittelstand. How old the management of German companies is, where the handover is most pressing and in which businesses a next generation is already in place.

Further themes in this field.

Handovers within the family Family run companies in which the next generation already holds responsibility and the transfer of shares is due. 36,731 companies Companies without successor management Companies in whose entire management and representation no younger generation is apparent that could carry the business forward. 195,125 companies Acquisition targets in consolidating industries Owner managed companies ahead of succession in those industries in which buyer groups have been acquiring systematically for years. 36,923 companies Property companies ahead of a handover Companies that hold and manage their own real estate and whose management faces the question of what is to become of the portfolio. 64,004 companies Founder led companies approaching retirement Long established limited liability companies managed by a single person who is approaching retirement. 120,279 companies Agricultural companies in eastern Germany Agricultural corporations in Brandenburg, Mecklenburg Western Pomerania, Saxony, Saxony Anhalt and Thuringia whose management is approaching a change. 1,200 companies Dormant companies Companies in which nothing has changed for a long time, which no longer have a management or whose management is of advanced age. 130,079 companies