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The ‘silver tsunami’
As a generation of business owners seeks an exit, the market faces a crisis of oversupply and lack of demand. Traditional sales routes are increasingly failing those ready to move on.
Employee ownership, made real.
Partnering with you to achieve a better exit.
Supporting SMEs and their team to transition to employee ownership
Valloop partners with business owners and their teams
A smarter way to help SMEs exit.
For more than a decade, we’ve been developing a solution to the growing exit crisis. We turn a difficult process into a shared opportunity, partnering with you to facilitate a seamless transition.
Employee ownership
We’ve built a smarter alternative. It secures the owner’s legacy, protects jobs and culture, and ensures ownership isn’t concentrated in the hands of a few.
The Platform
We’ve seen too many deals fail through lack of knowledge and support. Our platform removes the friction, making it straightforward for owners and leadership teams to prepare for transition.
Expertise & capital
We bring together everything required to progress: a dedicated team of specialists, comprehensive resources and, where appropriate, the capital support to make the transition a reality.
01 / The case for change
Why does a successful exit have to be this hard?
This is the question that business owners, private equity funds and PLCs ready to exit are asking themselves. Oversupply, lack of demand and limitations of traditional routes have created a big problem for businesses ready to transition.
We know that business owners are searching for a better way to sell and employees want to protect their jobs. Valloop has a solution, born from partnership with the owners and the workforce and facilitated by our platform and experienced team.
At the heart of the solution is employee ownership, an innovative way to exit which places the employees at the centre of succession planning. Valloop is facilitating a transition to a smarter form of ownership, which produces shared prosperity among employees and protects the owners’ legacy.
The Numbers
SMEs globally
SMEs in the EU and UK alone
approximately 7.5m expected to need ownership transition in the coming decade
SMEs in the USA facing similar succession dynamics
SMEs in the same position across early adopter countries
Australia and South Africa
EO?
02 / A global movement
What is Employee Ownership?
Employee ownership is where a company gives its employees shares in the company in which they work. This can involve part ownership or full ownership. Employee ownership can be used to assist with employee engagement, employee involvement, motivation and retention. SMEs also use the vehicle of employee ownership for succession planning where the founder of the business is looking to retire.
Employee Ownership has become a global movement governed by the belief that ownership should not be a privilege enjoyed by a few and that employees should have meaningful opportunities to participate in the businesses they help build and share in their future success.
Employee ownership enables business owners to confidently transition what they have built and hand it over to the workforce. It offers employees greater opportunity to participate in ownership and prosperity and the business to retain the knowledge, culture and continuity that made them successful.
It creates stronger businesses, stronger communities and broader long-term prosperity, and Valloop is here to be a long-term partner to SMEs and their people to make this a reality.
Does this sound good? Get an indicative view of whether your business, or the business you work for, could be a fit for employee ownership.
Take the EO Fit Check03 / From first look to full transition
How it works.
Check your EO fit
Take our free EO Fit Check and get an indicative view of your readiness in just a few minutes. It’s the perfect way to start your EO journey, with general information about areas you may want to explore further before you're ready to progress.
Take the Fit CheckSign up for a free account
Once you're ready, the next step is to sign up for a free account. You can take a look at our resources and start to build your ownership charter – a structured starting point for exploring and aligning your proposed employee ownership transition. This is a valuable document to take to the leadership team, or business owner and initiate discussions about employee ownership.
Sign upUpgrade
If you all agree that employee ownership is the right route for you, upgrade your subscription to complete your charter, unlock a full team readiness assessment and explore illustrative transaction scenarios, ownership structures and the legal considerations that may form part of a transition. Our technology-enabled platform walks you through the process and makes it easy, for a low monthly price of £60/€60/$99 per user.
Transition to employee ownership
Move from plan to reality. Valloop believes the best exits are built on partnership, not just a transaction. With our tools, experienced team and capital support, we're here to be your long-term business partner through your employee ownership journey. We work alongside owners and employees, through the transition and beyond, for the lasting success of the businesses and people we serve.
04 / Start your journey
Your path to employee ownership starts with one document.
Your Ownership Charter.
Let us help you to cut through the complexity and make it simple to create your charter. Our platform uses decades of experience and is technology-enabled to make it as easy as possible for you to draw up your charter.
Sign up for a free account, and we’ll lead you through a series of questions about your business to help you understand what EO could mean for you and how the numbers could work.
Upgrade to access the full power of our platform.
Together we'll build a clear, confident starting point for one of the most rewarding decisions you'll ever make.
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Build your personalised Ownership Charter
✓Your EO Fit CheckIncluded
✓What EO could mean for youIncluded
○How do the numbers workUpgrade
○Your employee ownership ratingUpgrade
○Indicative financial profileUpgrade
○Market position analysisUpgrade
○10-year ownership visionUpgrade
○How the equity gets splitUpgrade
○Full deal breakdownUpgrade
○Officially employee-ownedUpgrade
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05 / There’s a path for everyone
Who is this for?
Business owners ready to exit
You’ve built a successful company and are ready to sell, but are struggling to achieve a successful exit through traditional routes. You want to protect your legacy, the jobs you have created and the business’ long-term value. You may be looking for an alternative to a traditional trade or financial buyer, particularly where continuity, culture and legacy matter alongside price. Valloop has a solution.
Explore your pathSenior employees ready to lead
Senior leaders already running the business day to day, who have hit a point where the next step isn’t obvious. You've earned more responsibility, but there's no real path to owning any of what you've built. If you're already leading the company, then why can’t you own it? Valloop is here to partner with you to make that possible.
Explore your pathEmployees who want more
Members of the core employee base in the business. Fundamental to its success but often excluded from profits and voice. We believe that employees should have meaningful opportunities to participate in the businesses they help build and share in their future success. We can help you become included.
Explore your pathPrivate Equity Fund Managers
For portfolio businesses where a conventional secondary or trade sale is difficult, employee ownership may provide an additional succession route by bringing the existing workforce into the ownership solution.
Explore your pathPLCs & Groups
PLCs and groups face a problem when considering the disposal of a non-core subsidiary, due to oversupply and lack of demand. Valloop’s innovative method of disposal avoids the need to sell to trade, the secondary market or a competitor. Talk to our experienced team if you need to exit and traditional routes are failing you.
Explore your pathYour first step
Discover if employee ownership is right for you in 5 minutes.
Valloop is passionate about the benefits of employee ownership and we’re here to support SMEs with the transition, but it’s not right for every business.
To help you see whether it would be a good fit for the business you own or work for, we’ve designed The EO Fit Check. It takes less than 5 minutes, provides an indicative readiness result, and highlights areas that may merit further consideration before progressing.
Take the EO Fit CheckOur mission
Make business exits and transitions to employee ownership simpler and more achievable.
Valloop’s mission is to make business exits and transitions to employee ownership simpler and more achievable, by bringing together the key elements of transition in one place:
Capitalpotential capital solutions to support eligible transitions
Technologythe technology to remove complexity and cost
Expertisethe expertise to guide owners and employees through it
We focus on SMEs for whom employee ownership genuinely protects legacy, people and continuity and continually improve the experience through learning, collaboration and innovation.
What’s your next step?