Empower your business with Develco Group.

Transform your business with expert financial restructuring and strategic advisory. Experience high ROI and seamless sale facilitation to investors.

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What We Do

Develco provides consultancy and advisory services, encompassing transaction advisory, financial and commercial due diligence, financial analysis, financial modelling, business valuations, project management, value creation, and support for capital raisings, mergers, acquisitions, and disposals.

Corporate Valuation

Many business owners neglect managing their businesses as valuable assets. Proper cash flow and financial structuring are vital for maximizing valuations. Business valuation is essential for understanding past value creation and planning for equity sales or capital raising. Develco Corporate Consulting’s Smart Corporate Valuation method offers strategic assessments and actionable plans to enhance value. We also provide detailed valuation services for taxation, acquisitions, and mergers, delivering clear insights into your business’s worth.

Business Brokerage and Deal Structuring

At Develco Corporate, we offer tailored corporate advisory services alongside our business valuation expertise. We assist clients in assessing and selling their businesses or group portfolios, guiding them through financial, legal, and structural complexities for a smooth and hassle-free transaction.

Capital Investment and Transaction Support

A key decision for any company is determining the right investment for expanding capacity, as poor choices can harm competitiveness and cash flow. At Develco Corporate Consulting, our Capex Smart Analyzer evaluates capital expenditures within your strategic framework, providing detailed cost analysis and profit projections to ensure the investment meets your ROI goals.

Debt Reviews – Cost Efficiency

We assist corporations in evaluating their current debt positions, advising on optimal debt structures, and sourcing alternative, better-priced funding options. The debt market is fragmented and opaque, with significant information asymmetry regarding non-bank funding sources, pricing, collateral, and covenants. Many borrowers are unaware of the full range of funding options available to them for managing costs and increasing business efficiency. We help corporations navigate this landscape to find the best funding solutions.

Working Capital and Liquidity Optimization

Our experience shows that while businesses often focus on reducing the cash-to-cash cycle, there is rarely a structured effort to fund working capital with maximum efficiency. We specialize in assisting clients with various funding options, including trade and receivables financing from non-bank sources, to optimize their working capital and liquidity.

Growth and Acquisition Debt Funding

Entrepreneurial corporations often need access to debt capital for internal growth or expansion through acquisitions. We evaluate the debt capacity of both the acquirer and the acquisition target, providing advice on the most suitable debt structures. Leveraging our debt funding networks, we help clients secure the best possible pricing, collateral, and covenant terms for their acquisition funding needs.

Leveraged Buyouts for Clients

We advise clients on the best strategies to finance acquisitions, collaborating with management to structure financing solutions that blend debt and equity appropriately. This ensures successful acquisitions and provides sufficient working capital to support future growth.

Capital Expenditure Incentives and Rebate

In addition to our consulting services, we offer a variety of DTI and Capex incentive schemes for qualifying companies in industries like manufacturing, textiles, ICT, and tourism. Develco identifies the most suitable program from over 20 DTI incentives based on your industry and qualifications.

For example, the Black Industrialist Scheme (BIS) provides 30% to 50% cost-sharing grants for investments over R30 million, up to R50 million. The Clothing and Textiles Competitiveness Programme (CTCP) also offers cost-sharing grants for the textiles and leather industries.

Strategic Partnering

Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) is central to South Africa’s economic strategy, making BEE credentials essential for doing business with major clients like Sasol and state entities. Partnering for B-BBEE is now a strategic necessity. Develco Corporate Consulting specializes in B-BBEE transactions, focusing on business valuation and managing partner expectations.

Our BBBEE Partnering Assist program oversees the entire process and provides support when needed. We also facilitate access to BBBEE and DFI funds to help partners secure equity stakes, ensuring stability and collaboration for business growth.

B-BBEE Verification

Our clients who use this service will receive a B-BBEE Scorecard which is an independent validation of a company’s B-BBEE credentials. The company will receive a detailed report of their B-BBEE credentials in addition to a certificate of B-BBEE compliance which is valid for a period of 12 months from the date of Issue.

Private Equity

We work with some of the top private equity funds and groups on the African Continent, and thus we offer strategic capital advisory and partnering with a well aligned fund that suits your business interest and objectives.

Relationships

Printing | Packaging | Bottling & Beverage | Agricultural and Agro–processing | Recycling Bio-tech| Information Technology | Medical | Pharmaceutical | Allied

Develco-Chem, our Pharmaceutical & Chemicals Consulting Division, specializes in managing pharmaceutical compliance, including registrations, licensing, and product specifications for ethical and complementary product lines. As a registered service provider with the DTI and FSB in South Africa, we have extensive expertise in these and related industries. We also assist with sourcing and placing commodities, raw materials, and byproducts within your industry’s operational activities.

About Develco

Develco offers financial and capital restructuring services for manufacturing and related industries. We provide asset-based and working capital finance through a network of traditional banks, DFIs, and other financial institutions.

Our services also include management consulting, cost management, capital raising, and leveraged buyouts (MBOs). With exclusive Venture Capital partners, we access Private Equity for ventures aligned with our investment profile, often facilitating company sales to venture capitalists and investors. Develco also specializes in sourcing and placing commodities and raw materials in the market.

Our team brings over 40 years of combined expertise in finance, private equity, business strategy, and optimization, supported by a network of independent consultants tailored to client needs.

Read Develco’s Story

Our Mission: The Relentless Pursuit of Mutual Value

“ We harness the exponential power of our collective resources, intellectual capital, information, intuition, and innovative ideas. Our entrepreneurial energy drives us to create mutual value for our clients, stakeholders, and the community in which we operate. ”

Wayne Segal – Chief Financial Officer, Develco

Our Values

We are guided by principles that reflect our commitment to excellence, integrity, and respect in every aspect of our work, to provide you with everything you need to achieve exceptional results.

Originality

Our approach is characterized by openness, honesty, and genuineness in all our engagements. We actively embrace diversity and uphold our integrity.

Collaboration

We highly value partnerships and recognize that through teamwork and the inclusion of all stakeholders—our staff members, investors, portfolio companies, strategic partners, and communities—we can achieve better outcomes for everyone involved.

Humility

: We recognize the unique contributions of each individual and actively guard against egoism and arrogance. Instead, we seek and respect everyone’s input.

Creativity

We actively encourage creative thinking as a means to achieve innovation for the benefit of all our stakeholders.

Equity

We firmly believe in fair and equitable engagements, free from discrimination or dishonesty.

Distinction

Our commitment to excellence drives us to continuously learn, work hard, give our best efforts, and take accountability. This approach fosters a high-performing team that benefits all stakeholders.

Contact Us

Let’s connect! Contact us to find out more about Develco.

Address

22 Scott Street, Waverley, Johannesburg, 2090, South Africa

Phone

+27 (0) 82 353 7616

wayne@develcocorp.com

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