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PRIVATE ACQUISITIONS PROFILE
It is our intention to continually develop and own, for the long term, 100% of a large growing U. S. based business by acquiring sizeable private companies and divestitures from large organizations.
As a private business, decisions will always be made for the long term health of the business, rather than their short term impact on the stock price.
COMPANY CULTURE
For the acquired organization, performance based company culture will be instituted and intensely, continuously promoted. Employees (management and workforce) will understand they function as a team in an environment in which their security and opportunities can be greater than at any other employment, and are wholly based on their performance and commitment to constant improvement of the customers' experience, the product, the cost, the efficiency and the work environment.
Employees of the acquired organization will understand they have an opportunity to live apart from the public company environment of slashing costs via brutal employee reductions, product/service denigration and revenue increase via price cutting. This opportunity will require and inspire employees to participate permanently in a culture where they work on the business as well as in it; to aggressively use all their "on duty" time and some of their idle "off duty" time searching for continual, measurable improvement of the part of the process in which they are involved; to increase efficiency without capital cost; to increase quality in their area of function; and to improve and expand the suitability of the product/service as a whole from the customers' perspective. Sincere interest and constant improvement in all areas will be upheld as the normal lifestyle and the key to long-term job security, when other companies are instituting the all-too-common reductions in workforce.
The individual component companies' products/services will be used/experienced by the employees regularly; each will be required to do so as a basic means for product improvement. For example, if Kraft employees who package their salad dressings consumed them with the expectation of improving the product, the paper band sealing the lid would be replaced by something that, after opening, didn't leave a sticky lid for the consumer to dislike for the life of the product.
The company culture will stimulate every employee to maximize personal energy levels as applied to company activities; to exhibit fierce commitment to attitudes of doing whatever it takes, whenever it is required to get the desired results in their jobs; to never take no for an answer. The company culture will stimulate employees at all levels to react to all threats to the business immediately and fiercely, thereby greatly reducing the probability of any threat becoming serious.
Management will be required to stimulate and value the contribution of other employees to improve their own areas of function, and non-management employees likewise to respect the contribution of management in their true areas of expertise on which they will be strictly focused (restricted).
Eighty percent of the effective value of such a company culture can be instituted in a few months, to result in remarkable improvement. Resiliency to economic downturns is bolstered by having a committed workforce asking, "What else can our products/services be sold to accomplish, what other products/services can we produce with our existing equipment and workforce, and thereby keep our revenues up when the economy is contracting." Together with intensity of focus and commitment, we will succeed through innovation when other companies are struggling. Employees will share earnings as additional incentive and reward for their performance.
MANAGEMENT
We prefer that an executive management team with a history of success be in place and remain after an acquisition. If not, our intention is to hire the best industry specific executive management team for a specific acquisition. We will provide the value system in which they will function to achieve the herein described results. All key management personnel will receive recurrent performance enhancement training by Anthony Robbins of Robbins Research Institute to immediately, significantly expand individual performance and stimulate an aggressive solution orientation outside the traditional envelope. The employee and management team will be trained in Dr. W. Edwards Deming's Total Quality Management methods to aggressively continually enhance quality, efficiency and customer loyalty.
ACQUISITION CRITERIA
We prefer stable operations which continue at a reasonable level during difficult economic times. The purchase price of any acceptable transaction must be at a multiple of cash flow that will allow the business to safely retire purchase debt from earnings within three to seven years.
RECENT CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
Beginning in 1983, We developed, implemented and refined, without former construction expertise, the management methodologies that quickly made The Evans American Corporation the fastest and most efficient disaster reconstruction organization in the U. S. In a decade Evans came out of the trunk of a car to become the leader of our industry, and literally the fastest reconstruction company in the world.
We have been integral in the rehabilitation of a myriad of America's most catastrophically-damaged structures, including coordinating reconstruction in the wake of major earthquakes in Los Angeles and San Francisco; after firestorms in Berkeley and Oakland; after riot damage in Los Angeles; after hurricanes in Florida, the Carolinas, and Louisiana; after flooding in Louisiana, Kansas and Missouri; and after the Oklahoma City bombing.
We have addressed a multitude of business groups on the importance of disaster management, and have authored articles for many leading industry publications including Best's Review, National Underwriter and Risk Management. In 1990 we were invited to Moscow by Chairman Vladimir Resin of The Moscow Construction Agency, to address the top 800 Russian engineers on innovation and high-speed construction. We, in turn, hosted a Russian delegation visiting America to learn more about rapid recovery and high-speed construction.
The foundation for Evans accomplishments are a keen awareness of cash flow and psychological concepts applied to business activities that stimulate seemingly super-human effort, accomplishment, and extraordinarily effective non-traditional problem solving by the entire employee team.
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