ANDERSON COOPER is a specialist business broker, selling business-to-business companies in the Manufacturing, Distribution and Service sectors. Most of these companies have annual turnovers of between £500k and £7.5M and are usually based in Central England.

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Our offices are located on the north side of Stratford upon Avon at :

20 The Mansley, Timothy's Bridge Road, Stratford upon Avon CV37 9NQ 

Telephone: 0845 279 4899               Fax: 0870 705 8580

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Our directors have an average of 25 years experience of owning and running businesses in the Manufacturing, Distribution and Service sectors. This means that when you instruct ANDERSON COOPER you can be sure that the sale of your business will be led by an experienced business broker who has 'been there and done it'. Our founders are:-

BILL LEECH was educated at Rugby School, Grenoble University in France and Aston University in Birmingham. He has over 30 years experience at senior management level in high technology companies. In 1973, he became the youngest Director & General Manager of a Lucas subsidiary and launched their unbranded automotive spare parts programme.

In 1978, he joined Smiths Industries plc as Managing Director of the Car Radio Division, which manufactured ‘Radiomobile’ in car entertainment products. In 1982, he founded Mobile Radio Ltd and developed it over 18 years, into a leading mobile communications innovator, developing some of the first mobile data and vehicle tracking systems for the emergency services and many international logistics groups.

RICHARD ANDERSON has an engineering degree from Loughborough, an MBA from Harvard and a finance qualification. He has over 20 years experience at senior management level in SME and multi-national companies in both consumer and industrial markets.

He started his career with 3i investing in SMEs in the Midlands. Following 2 years in the USA, at Harvard, he worked in increasingly senior roles in the fmcg sector, latterly with Mars Inc. In 1994, as Marketing Director of Partco, he contributed to its successful flotation. In 1997, he became CEO of Independent Parts Group, a small cap PLC. Following the sale of IPG, from 1998 to 2002, he formed and led an MBI in the industrial distribution sector.