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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What makes a project attractive for investment?
There are a number of criteria, including potential market growth, benign regulatory environment, infrastructure vendor support, and policies encouraging direct inwards investment. Another factor is currency stability as is a pattern of positive GDP growth.Celsation is usually not concerned about technology, management, brand, products & services, as these are all typically areas of change and modernisation.
How long do you take to evaluate an opportunity?
Celsation has a comprehensive due diligence template that guides our exploration of potential opportunities.Ordinarily, our assessment is completed within 60 days following completion of information gathering. In some cases it may be necessary to request specific information to be prepared, which can lengthen this process.
What are the first initiatives you would action when acquiring a new project?
Businesses that are struggling usually have shortfalls in strategy and/or technology deficits, compared to local competitors.Our typical first priorities are to arrest and overcome deficiencies, in order to reset the business on a competitive footing. Most often, these steps are accompanied by fresh capital infusion into the operations, together with revising the relationships with technology infrastructure vendors.
MORE COMMON QUESTIONS
What is the time period to produce strong business performance or investment returns?
Our wide transformation experience tells us that a minimum of two to three years is needed before sustainable and significant results flow into the business.This means that a typical investment cycle producing strong returns may be expected to be of five years to seven years duration.
Do you work in partnership with global brands?
In some markets and for some strategic initiatives, Celsation may propose introduction of a global brand or franchise partnership. This is particularly valuable for product & service development, obtaining better OEM pricing for a small market, coordinating roaming agreements and opening opportunities to collaborate on global customer accounts.
Do you work in Europe or North America?
Both Europe and USA have limited growth potential in telecommunications and media, with a period of industry consolidation well under way.The major pan-European operators are yet to turn their attention fully to the emerging markets, which still have solid growth potential, particularly for fixed+mobile data and broadband applications in the SME, enterprise and government segments.Accordingly, Celsation's main focus is on the emerging markets of Middle East and Africa, with some small exposure to Latin America.
Will you undertake consultancy assignments?
A significant part of Celsation's project work is management of training, organisation development, mentoring and skills transfer. Whilst all this support and guidance is undetaken on a consultative, collegiate basis, we would not enter a project without the opportunity for hands-on management involvement and equity participation.Celsation seeks to align its interests with the business owners and is always focused on producing strong shareholder value growth.