The document discusses 3 reasons to partner with other businesses rather than merging or acquiring: 1) Partnering allows each business to focus on what they do best while reducing risk and increasing flexibility. 2) Partnering delivers a quicker return on investment for all parties. 3) Partnering can be used to "try before you buy" another business. Gibbs & Partners helps identify compatible businesses and facilitates partnerships to create "Ace Pilots working in harmony."

1. Why Fly in Formation
3 reasons you should
consider partnering with
other businesses

8. Why merge or buy when you can partner
effectively?
It's a well-known fact that most mergers destroy value and distract the
controlling business from doing what it does best. So, merging or
acquiring doesn't make much sense unless you want to remove a
competitor and/or acquire assets.
On the other hand, partnering with carefully selected, robust businesses
with shared values and complementary capabilities, allows each business
to carry on doing what it is really good at, reducing risk, increasing
flexibility and delivering a quicker return on investment for all concerned.
You could even use it to 'try before you buy'.
We call it 'Flying in Formation' - Ace Pilots working in harmony to deliver
breathtaking value.
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9. Where Gibbs & Partners fits in
WE OFFER:
● An extensive network of business contacts
● A process for identifying and matching Values, Purposes and Value
Propositions
● Practical help to get into Formation
● A process for creating Ace Pilots
● A platform for creating new and ongoing collaborations with fellow Ace
Pilots
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10. Want to know more?
● Talk to me
● Email me:
kirsten@gibbsandpartners.com
● Phone me: +44 (0)20 8938 3908
● Skype me: thekirstengibbs
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11. Thank you
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