Morning meeting for business owners and managers on Bornholm

Most business owners spend their everyday lives on customers, employees, operations and development. But when do you actually stop and ask:

Is the business ready for the next phase?

Perhaps a generational handover will be relevant one day. Perhaps an employee or partner will need to join the ownership side. Perhaps a buyer will come along. Or perhaps you simply wish to create a stronger and less owner-dependent business.

What all scenarios have in common is that the best opportunities typically arise for the companies that have prepared well in advance.

At this morning event, Business Center Bornholm and Erhvervshus Hovedstaden will focus on the strategic, legal, financial and human considerations involved when a business is to be developed, handed over or prepared for new opportunities.

You will meet both experts and business leaders from Bornholm, who will share their experiences and reflections from real-life ownership transitions, acquisitions and new ownership structures.

You will get answers to, among other things:

• How do you make the business less dependent on the owner?
• When should you start thinking about the next phase of the business?
• What creates value in the company?
• What needs to be in place legally, financially and organisationally?
• How do you prepare without necessarily being on the way to selling?
• What experiences have other Bornholm-based businesses had?

Programme

08.00 – Breakfast and networking

Start the day with coffee, morning pastries and the opportunity to meet other Bornholm business owners.

08.30 – Welcome

Business Center Bornholm and Erhvervshus Hovedstaden welcome you and set the stage for today's theme.

08.40 – Bornholm business case

Daniel Barslund – Ocean Prawns shares his experiences and reflections on the company’s development, ownership and next phase.

09.05 – Professional presentation

“Dos and don'ts when the business needs to move forward”

Thomas Vang Christensen, lawyer

Thomas provides insight into the most important legal, financial and strategic matters that business owners should be aware of long before a potential ownership change, sale or generational handover becomes relevant.

09.45 – Coffee and networking

10.15 – Panel discussion

The company's next phase in practice

Facilitated by Thomas Vang Christensen

Panel participants:

• Marcus Hansen and Jacob Svendsen from Flemming Svendsen VVS
• Michael Brandt from Baltic Sea Glass
• Benjamin Lund former owner of El & VVS Center

The panel share their experiences with:

• to take over or continue a business
• generational change and new ownership structures
• responsibility, trust and leadership
• the difficult conversations along the way
• what they wish they had known earlier

11.00 – What do you do from here?

Free and impartial sparring on the company's next phase

Erhvervshus Hovedstaden provides a brief overview of the opportunities for sparring if you wish to work further on the company's development, ownership, or future opportunities.

Concrete advice and next steps for business owners who want more options for action in the future.

11.15 – Networking

Opportunity for informal discussions with speakers, panellists and other participants.

12.00 – Thanks for today

You don't need to be on your way to selling

The day is not about selling your business.

It is about creating more courses of action.

The companies that are in the strongest position when opportunities arise are often those that began preparations before it became necessary.

Who should attend?

The event is relevant to business owners and owner-managers who:

✅ are looking to future-proof their business

✅ want to make the business less owner-dependent

✅ considering generational change or new ownership structure

wants to increase the company's value and resilience

✅ would like to be better prepared for future opportunities