Starting with the End in Mind: An Exit Strategy for Machine Shops
It was a question that some of KMM’s 90-plus combined employees might have been asking. At first glance the merger might not have made sense. Each of the three companies that now composed the KMM Group were second-generation, family-owned manufacturing and machining businesses that were financially sound. The companies’ two leaders were in their early 50s and presumably in the primes of their careers. John Shegda led two of the companies, M&S Centerless Grinding and Meron Medical, while Eric Wilhelm headed up a precision machining company called the KVI Group. The blog post attempted to ...