Our Approach

Acquiring industrial businesses for the long term.

TouchPoint no busca operaciones por subasta, RFP ni propuestas no solicitadas. Nuestro equipo de desarrollo corporativo pasa la mayor parte de su tiempo conversando con dueños y operadores de empresas de ingeniería y manufactura que admiramos — a menudo durante años antes de que ocurra algo formal. Cuando llega el momento adecuado, somos nosotros quienes contactamos.

The TouchPoint Operating Model

Buy.Invest.Grow.

Three words, in this order, every time. Most of the businesses we own have been around for fifty, eighty, a hundred years. The model below is how we plan to be with them for the next fifty, eighty, hundred.

IBuy

We acquire privately-held engineering and manufacturing companies — typically from founders or families who want the business to outlast the transaction. Direct conversations, fair multiples, no auctions.

We do not run a submission process. When we approach a company, it is because we have studied the business and the platform fit.

IIInvest

Capital is one piece. We also bring M&A support, shared services, channel relationships, and a global engineering network built across more than a century in industrial manufacturing. The existing leadership team keeps running the company.

TouchPoint acts as a governing board — strategic and financial oversight, plus approvals on key capital and human-resource investments.

IIIGrow

Every company TouchPoint has acquired since 2012 still operates today under its original name and management team. We grow alongside that team — no fund cycle, no pre-set exit, and no expectation that the business will ever be sold again.

The point of long ownership is the second decade. We design every relationship around what gets built after the deal closes, not at the closing dinner.

Every company TouchPoint has acquired since 2012 still operates today under its original name and management team. That is not a hold strategy. It is the strategy.

Brian M. McNeill, Executive Chairman
Las empresas que admiramos

Lo que buscamos en un negocio.

These are the attributes our corporate development team looks for. We do not run a submission process — when we reach out, it is because we have already seen these qualities in the business.

  • 01

    Niche growth-oriented businesses

    TouchPoint targets companies with value-added products or services, with at least 2X GDP growth potential. Such companies will be in the early growth phase of the business, with proven revenue and profits, and headquartered in the United States or Western Europe.

  • 02

    Proven performance and strong management team

    TouchPoint chooses companies with at least three consecutive years of healthy performance, and with a strong management team who is fluent in the English language and willing to remain with the company for at least three years after the acquisition takes place.

  • 03

    Cross-company linkages to enable tangible synergies

    TouchPoint selects companies whose resources and core competencies can be leveraged across other investments or can significantly benefit from TouchPoint's knowledge base.

  • 04

    Favorable deal conditions

    TouchPoint seeks privately held companies at fair market multiples. We look to both incorporate acquisitions into our existing platforms as well as to create new platforms where companies have the potential to operate as an independent business.

Desarrollo corporativo

Si nuestros caminos deberían cruzarse.

Si dirige una empresa que cree que podría encajar en una de nuestras plataformas — o asesora a una que sí lo hace — nuestro equipo de desarrollo corporativo es accesible a través de la página de contacto. Respondemos al contacto serio de directivos y sus asesores.