
Mergers & Acquisitions in Contract Manufacturing Industry – Contract Manufacturing Consultants
Venture Outsource M&A clients include individuals and family-owned businesses, large public companies, investment banks and private equity firms. Let us help you formulate your add-on capacity growth or exit strategy, identify more capacity, identify and locate advantageously suitable target companies, buyers and sellers.
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Our M&A solutions are backed by deep expertise understanding manufacturing industry based on sound market research and analysis and comprehensive business review of technologies, services and operational capabilities relative to competitors, market verticals and broader manufacturing industry.
Our niche industry expertise helps to decrease the asymmetry of information between buyers and sellers and can make the difference between your success or failure, both in terms of the transaction executing and in terms of post-merger and -acquisition integration performance and synergies of the target companies.
The hyper-competitive contract electronics industry is constantly undergoing change. Providers are taken private and/or acquired or merged for a variety of reasons – often to break into new markets, or to gain new customers.
This chart illustrates chances for M&A success based on whether or not the buyer is acquiring a company with technology that matches their own, has technology that is an extension of their own or the target company has completely new technologies to the acquiring company. The same can be said for market.
For example, a contract electronics provider serving non-traditional end markets may not do as well should they acquire a provider serving the consumer devices market. We invite you to view some examples of client work results.

From gathering customized, hard-to-get industry intelligence and tapping our credible experience to help you formulate lists of prospective targets, to gaining better understand of industry or market verticals and services differentiation among competitors and formulation, review and feedback of confidential memorandums. See how we can help you with your exit strategy, manufacturing capex planning and working capital business objectives.
M&A pre-deal solutions:
- Market research and trend analysis
- Target company identification
- Collaborative criteria development
- Target company profiling
- Strategic fit analysis
M&A advisory solutions:
- Target company outreach (non-securities)
- Deal introductions and facilitation (non-securities)
M&A project management solutions:
- Project timeline and milestone management
- Stakeholder coordination
- Progress tracking and reporting
M&A research and analysis solutions:
- Financial analysis of target companies, review of financial statements, valuations and financial modeling
- Market research and trends analysis, competitor supply chains and growth potential
- Industry and market vertical research including trends, challenges and opportunities
Contract electronics services landscape
Contract electronics providers operate within some or all of these areas in the electronics supply chain. Please fill in the form on this page to learn more.
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