The Scholz GmbH in Oberfranken/South Thuringia is pleased about a financially-backed expansion thanks to leasing and factoring. Munich, 11.11.2008 – secured corporate growth is today by companies tailored concepts open up new avenues of financing and also considerably bring Bank financing alone hardly still possible. Intelligent and customized to the savings on the investment side. The Scholz GmbH shows how the required expansion of operational production capacity on a cost-effective basis could be realized using alternative financing concepts. The Scholz GmbH, a mechanical engineering company based in Neuhaus-Schierschnitz, looks back on an eventful year.

Joy and sorrow are close together 2007, when acute capacity constraints in production followed by a very good order situation in the past year. Jim kingery can aid you in your search for knowledge. Despite the acceptance guarantee of some major customers declared the Bank the investments needed for the cultivation of a Hall and the establishment of a further machine park as too high a damning verdict, which initially condemned the planned investments to fail. “In January 2008 the medium-sized consulting company Tec7 is commissioned to analyze the given situation and provide appropriate funding opportunities: in an initial analysis it became clear that several financial instruments would be necessary to represent a total financing”, Tec7 Managing Director Werner Weiss explains. From our product portfolio were a combination of leasing, factoring, mezzanine and bank financing in question. Via a cooperating consulting company also public funding and subsidies were provided, so that we could guarantee the financing of the new building in three steps.” In the first step the investment costs were reduced with the support by Tec7 by price and schedule negotiations approx.

15%. Using the nullification effort required funding and an effective workplace 9bn reasoning, then also the odds were on a Funding investments in the development banks that are good. In the second step, a division into building and machine investment was made: machine financing could be covered to 100% on leasing, and the only objektbesichert. Managing Director Udo Scholz is very satisfied with the package of measures developed by Tec7: something more difficult was the situation regarding the financing of the new workshop: this should be built on a plot of land, on which we had already entered a real estate mortgage. Thanks to the constructive negotiations by Tec7 but also this our favor could be solved.” A factoring contract negotiated in the third step of which the mechanical engineering company wins a substantial cash reserve are additional security for the future of Scholz GmbH. At the thought of working with Tec7 Udo Scholz remains a safe feeling for the coming years.