Valuations & Acquisitions: What Acquisition Due Diligence Reviews Can Teach You

When they acquire an initial platform business, or complete a later add-on acquisition (of size), they assemble a team of catalog industry experts, by operating area, to conduct the DDR analysis. It’s not unusual to see a consultant (or consulting firm) investigating and analyzing, through meetings and performance data requests with company management, each discipline in the company to be acquired. These include merchandising, inventory control/forecasting, marketing, Web and search, operations, accounting/financial statements, and legal.