The Mercantile Group traditionally provides cost effective corporate support services to SMEs – defined simply as businesses with turnover of £1m - £15m. See below for help for smaller companies.

We operate nationally through a team of Regional Directors and Associates reporting to a small head office team.  This means genuine one-to-one contact and very personal client service.

Mercantile usually assists with one-off corporate change – the purchase or sale of a business; rapid expansion; an MBO or management restructuring - of the type that might not be familiar to most people in their daily business life.

The company has a well-proven model to help ensure that these potentially disruptive occurrences can be handled as smoothly as possible for the benefit of the client.  However, we recognise that each client is unique and the challenges presented are dealt with accordingly, with a combination of sensitivity and concise, practical activity. We won’t force you into pre-packaged solutions.

If you have the potential to improve the underlying strength of your business - or just need an injection of new ideas - Mercantile has the experience to help you decide on solutions that suit your circumstances as well as the skills to support you during implementation. 

Help for smaller businesses

We’ve discovered when talking to our clients that many of them put our services in a box marked ‘FUNDING’. While we provide excellent advice and significant funding solutions, this is only one part of the wide range of skills we use to support businesses engaged in a variety of change and growth activities.

As The Mercantile Group becomes better known through referrals and recommendations from satisfied clients, our unique Appraisal/Retention model is increasingly used to assess needs prior to planning and the implementation of a range of business solutions and funding. However, potential clients increasingly ask us to provide a wider range of support services. This is why we have formalised two of these services to allow clients greater flexibility in seeking more immediate solutions to corporate problems.

SME 5000
For fees of £5000 or less, a business with annual turnover of under £1m can expect assistance to find new funding up to £150,000 and support to resolve defined issues that have a specific brief and anticipated outcome.

Consultancy
For larger businesses seeking specific services or new funding up to £250,000 but who do not need a full appraisal we offer a nominal retainer + day rate payable monthly in arrears or on completion of the project.

Any larger funding requirements usually need Appraisal, but we hope these additional services will benefit businesses with simpler needs.

This means that we can now not only help a wider range of clients but that we can also maintain an on-going relationship with the businesses that we’ve helped to develop as they continue to even greater levels of success.

  These links will help you to find out how we can help:
• New start
• Expansion
• Business rescue
• International finance

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