The digital successor magazine 2021 has been published

With today's publication of the spring issue of the follow-up magazine 2021, the joint initiative of ORGANISATOR and the Initiative Nachfolgebus.ch special publication is now in its second round. The successor magazine was launched for the first time last year. The trade publication appears each spring as a digital edition and in the fall as a printed edition.

Successor magazine 2021 with diverse topics

This year, the focus of a comprehensive information and training offer on business succession tailored to the needs of SMEs is on preservation sales. In this way, the Nachfolgebus.ch initiative accompanies and supports entrepreneurs in particular who are pressed for time with their succession planning. The Nachfolgemagazin 2021 offers for it with detailed check lists both enterprise salesmen and - buyers a systematic overview to the seven-stage follow-up process. Well-founded expert articles and practical examples provide a wide range of tips. In addition, background reports on the importance of diversity in the context of succession and on specific entrepreneurial thinking methods provide further impetus for entrepreneurship. The current issue is available online at the price of CHF 25 at: www.companymarket.ch/nachfolgeshop

Preservation sale - when you need it fast

Currently, more than 87,000 companies are facing an unregulated succession. A company handover does not always go smoothly, and sometimes time is simply pressing. Whether due to a crisis situation or because the succession within the family fails at the last moment - the reasons why a succession arrangement suddenly comes under time pressure are manifold and usually unexpected. For such situations and all other succession scenarios, the initiative Nachfolgebus offers a wide range of expertise, some of which is free of charge. In addition to the aforementioned succession magazine 2021:

• The successor bus digital for digital free 1:1 expert* discussions
• The Succession practice workshops online as a permanently available continuing education platform. With videos, podcasts and dossiers available for download.

Dedicated to succession - the Phoenix Award

Consistent commitment to business succession also means preserving and strengthening long-term entrepreneurship in Switzerland, which is largely made up of a large number of SMEs that are several decades to centuries old. That is why the Nachfolgebus.ch 2020 initiative has for the first time launched the Phoenix Award for long-term Swiss entrepreneurship is awarded. Every year, Swiss companies that have successfully mastered business succession for at least a century are honored with this award. They usually had to overcome some crises and rise like the "Phoenix from the ashes".

Potential award winners are, on the one hand, all Swiss SMEs that have been entered in the commercial register for 100 years in the respective year. On the other hand, they are the SMEs founded 100 years ago in the respective year. A jury of experts with representatives from entrepreneurship, science and the media will select the winners in the categories Innovation/Disruption/Erneurship, Impact and Performance as a Team and Social/Economic Contribution. The members of the jury in 2021 are Dr. Corinne Mühlebach, lecturer for Strategic Marketing, Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship at the FHNW Hochschule für Wirtschaft and co-owner and managing director of Mühlebach AG, Barbara Schär, entrepreneur and succession expert, owner and managing director of La Progressia GmbH as well as René Spielmann, owner and managing director of H. Rüetschi AG, winner company of the Phoenix Award 2020. Members of the three-member jury advisory board are Corin Ballhaus, positioning expert for SMEs, owner of Ballhaus Profiling, Giacomo Garaventa, Succession expert, owner and managing director of nachfolger.ch as well as Thomas Berner, Editor-in-Chief ORGANISATOR.