BACKGROUND
GA Select uniquely operates under license from the DTI –OFFICE
of FAIR TRADING (OFT) and is a practicing style of Graham Allman Associates
Limited . EXPERIENCE COUNTS, claims the firms Managing Director
Graham Allman who works closely with Main Board Director Simon Kershaw and
together have in excess of 55 years of experience within all sectors of
the licensed trade including operational directorships with major brewers
and licensed property agencies.
Graham confidently states, my Board of Directors and Associate Directors
are all well experienced TOP TRADE PROFESSIONALS with strong operational
and property backgrounds within the major players of the industry, and have
a strength of NETWORKING second to none within the trade, dealing with FREEHOLD,
FREE of TIE LEASES and TIED LEASES.I quote the background of Associate Director
Stuart Baldry, Stuarts pedigree covers senior management and director positions
with the likes of Punch Taverns, Whitbread, Bass, Laurel, Enterprise Inns
and has also owned and run his own freehold Hotel. “EXPERIENCE COUNTS”.
We play to our strengths explains Graham, who along with
Simon, have built on their life time careers within the industry and have
direct access to all the well known purchasing companies “decision
makers” which include traditional regional brewers, the new generation
of national pub leasing companies, a growing sector of investors which includes
well known PENSION FUNDS, along with a strong client bank of private operators
either with proven track records or newly inspired to enter the trade, all
who have been vetted by GA Select to measure and confirm their individual
purchasing position.
GA Select’s Associate Companies. With the attention of Directors or
senior principals of our Associate Companies, you can be assured that a
referral from GA Select will provide you with the confidence of extra support
that you may require when selling or buying through us. Graham Allman confirms
that the company’s mission is to SELL LICENSED BUSINESSES and that’s
what the whole team focuses on doing and are committed to doing it well.
However we appreciate that the journey is a complex and difficult one and
we have put together over many years a portfolio of Associates who have
the expertise to assist in all matters related to the process including
specialist firms of Solicitors, Finance Brokers who focus on the trade and
can engineer deals suitable for the most complex case, Chartered Accountants,
Tax Planners, Training, both licensed and business, Mentoring, Marketing
Solutions, SELECT CONSULTING and MUCH MUCH more.
Our associate structure leaves us free to attend to our client's
business needs and provides for a “ONE-STOP” business package
for buyers and vendors leaving Graham and the team to concentrate on the “job
in hand”, SELLING PUBS, HOTELS, INNS and LEISURE businesses.
MISSION STATEMENT
GA Select strive to confirm ourselves as the pre-eminent
specialists in the licensed trade when it comes to SELLING and BUYING your
business which is the ONLY THING WE DO.
”the Professional Business decision”