AMS
Investors in SME's
Proactive investors in SME's and the middle market
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Our investment focus is within:
Transformative Technology, Manufacturing & Digitisation
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About AMS
Our Story
Who We Are
Our Guiding Principles
All of our partners have founded, grown and exited businesses, and as such, understand and appreciate the financial and emotional challenges which most owners will undoubtedly have experienced throughout their journey in successfully building their own businesses - often having taken several years, if not decades to build.
As external advisors, consultants and Non-Exec Directors (NED's), we have also advised and driven performance improvement, turnaround, transformation, acquisitions and sales with large scale, complex organisations across the globe.
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This breadth of experience enables us to understand how difficult it is to find a suitable and successful exit from a small or medium size business, which will enable not just financial freedom for their owners moving forwards, but also enable them to truly focus on the things they love.
AMS are all about working with owners of SME's to help them exit their business and maximise their opportunity in a fair and ethical fashion.
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Our active partners, led by Andy and Barrie have been creating client and shareholder value for a combined total of over 80 years, in several countries and in business types of all sorts, shapes and sizes. Over the years, we have invested in dozens of businesses ranging from healthcare and manufacturing companies through to our current investments in specialist manufacturing technology / AI and Industrial Software for B2B markets in the UK, Europe, the USA and Americas.
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The common thread for all of our investments, is our ability to work with owners and shareholders of small and medium sized companies, helping them successfully exit their business in as efficient and uncomplicated way as possible, whilst ensuring their teams have continuity and further options for growth.
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We believe in dealing with owners with discretion, empathy and transparency, in a quick, straightforward and efficient manner. Enabling us to jointly create a win-win situation for all parties and in a relatively short period of time.
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​We are guided by our unwavering commitment to:
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Being Client Centric
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Our pursuit of delivering best in class solutions
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Constantly adding Value
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Delivering on financial goals and objectives
Why AMS
Deep Industry Knowledge & Cutting Edge Digital Technology
Years of Experience
In-house Support Teams
An investment team who have been there, seen it and done it - literally dozens of times. Pragmatic and straightforward, with a clear focus on facilitating an exit for SME owners, growth and increasing shareholder value.
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​Some of current investments
One of our current investments is in Virtalis - For over 30 years, Virtalis have been pioneering Immersive Visualisation and VR solutions with industrial enterprises such as BAE, Rolls Royce, LAM Technologies, Ford & Subsea7 to name but a few. Working hand in hand with their global partners, Virtalis have been using data to proactively solve mission critical functions. At the heart of Virtalis is proprietary software, which ingests extremely large, structured and unstructured datasets, from any source, format and location, creating powerful immersive visualised scenes.
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Another of our current investments is in VisualPM - a digital manufacturing platform that revolutionises manufacturing and engineering businesses converting traditional manufacturers into World Class Digital Enterprises differentiating them from the crowd and creating huge multiples with a faster, cash rich exit.
There is no substitute for experience - only people that have been in the same or very similar situations can understand the personal and emotional aspects of successfully exiting a business as well as the financial and business considerations. That is where we score over any traditional business sales agencies or accountancy practices - we have been there and understand the many aspects that need to be taken into consideration - often, it's not just the money!
Through the other investments and businesses which the AMS team own and have involvement in, we have access to a whole array of industry sector and function specialists through our support teams, including:
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Business Turnaround
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Restructuring
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Finance
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Scale up / Growth
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IT and Digital teams
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Cyber Security
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Quality specialists
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HR & Recruitment
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Regulatory, Legal and I.P
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We have a presence in:
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Manchester, England
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Malaga, Spain
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Irvine, California, USA
Our Direct Phone Numbers:
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Andy : 07780-886642
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Barrie : 07809-278899