About Us ANDERSON COOPER is a specialist business broker, selling business-to-business companies in the Manufacturing, Distribution and Service sectors. Most of these companies have turnovers of between £500k and £7.5M and are capable of producing annual profits of over £100k. Our offices are on the north side of Stratford upon Avon at: 20 The Mansley, Timothy's Bridge Road, Stratford upon Avon CV37 9NQ Telephone: 0845 279 4899               Fax: 0870 705 8580 Alternatively, call Bill Leech on 07899 792792 Download a Location Map

Our Commitment

We do not expect any major payment in advance for our services or to support the substantial investment we will make on your behalf. There is a small commitment fee to ensure that only serious sellers engage us to work exclusively on their behalf.

What we do

• We assist with advice on pre-sale planning
• We provide a Free business valuation and sales strategy
• We prepare the Memorandum of Information describing your business
• We confidentially advertise your business on national and international websites.
• We include details about your sale, excluding your business name, in our newsletter “The Bulletin”, which is circulated to our contact list of direct and indirect potential purchasers
• We mailshot potential purchasers using a specially purchased current list from a leading list broker
• We deal with all prospective buyers
• We handle the negotiations
• We prepare the Heads of Terms and monitor the process through to Completion

BILL LEECH was educated at Rugby School, Grenoble University in France and Aston University in Birmingham. He has over 30 years experience at senior management level in high technology companies. In 1973, he became the youngest Director & General Manager of a Lucas subsidiary and launched their unbranded automotive spare parts programme.

In 1978, he joined Smiths Industries plc as Managing Director of the Car Radio Division, which manufactured ‘Radiomobile’ in car entertainment products. In 1982, he founded Mobile Radio Ltd and developed it over 18 years, into a leading mobile communications innovator, developing some of the first mobile data and vehicle tracking systems for the emergency services and many international logistics groups.

RICHARD ANDERSON has an engineering degree from Loughborough, an MBA from Harvard and a finance qualification. He has over 20 years experience at senior management level in SME and multi-national companies in both consumer and industrial markets.

He started his career with 3i investing in SMEs in the Midlands. Following 2 years in the USA, at Harvard, he worked in increasingly senior roles in the fmcg sector, latterly with Mars Inc. In 1994, as Marketing Director of Partco, he contributed to its successful flotation. In 1997, he became CEO of Independent Parts Group, a small cap PLC. Following the sale of IPG, from 1998 to 2002, he formed and led an MBI in the industrial distribution sector.