{"id":4081,"date":"2023-05-04T14:58:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T12:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/proactively-overcoming-succession-hurdles\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T16:06:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T14:06:16","slug":"proactively-overcoming-succession-hurdles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/en\/proactively-overcoming-succession-hurdles\/","title":{"rendered":"Proactively overcoming succession hurdles"},"content":{"rendered":"<section  class='av_textblock_section av-kacaj00t-03bf41f182bfb3f7bd792529b95aef13 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h3><span id=\"page30R_mcid1\" class=\"markedContent\"><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Ever greater hurdles for successful company succession  <\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>According to the latest KfW SME Succession Monitoring, around 100,000 small and medium-sized enterprises are looking for a successor every year. The dilemma: the increasing number of older business leaders is offset by the decreasing number of interested successors! <\/p>\n<p>The key findings of the study can be summarized as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Only one in ten employees is under 40 years old<\/li>\n<li>Low birth rates, lack of aptitude and lack of interest lead to a shortage of young talent<\/li>\n<li>Around 190,000 SMEs plan to exit the market without a succession plan by the end of 2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"break-words\"><span dir=\"ltr\">The path to successful succession:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"break-words\"><span dir=\"ltr\">\u2714 Start the succession process at an early stage<br \/>\n\u2714 Use external expertise and support<br \/>\n\u2714 Keep the entrepreneurial task in focus<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"break-words\"><span dir=\"ltr\">Together we will master your succession!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kfw.de\/PDF\/Download-Center\/Konzernthemen\/Research\/PDF-Dokumente-Fokus-Volkswirtschaft\/Fokus-2023\/Fokus-Nr.-424-Maerz-2023-Nachfolge.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KfW Succession Monitoring for SMEs<\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"620\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"620\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"620\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"620\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"620\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"avia_textblock avia_textblock_style\" data-update_with=\"content\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"avia_textblock avia_textblock_style\" data-update_with=\"content\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4081"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4083,"href":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4081\/revisions\/4083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omegaconsulting.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}