Ascent Partners provides specialist business sales, acquisition and appraisal services
to the Australian Printing and Graphic Arts industry. In this market we have:

—      A proven track record as a business agent — many business sales,
          acquisitions and appraisals have been conducted

—      Long term experience and knowledge

—      High quality networks and data bases

We are fully licensed and equipped to provide business sales, acquisition and appraisal services in Victoria and New South Wales. In other states and territories, we work with local licensed agents and provide then access to our specialist market knowledge, data bases and systems.

Our principal, Richard Rasmussen, has been involved in numerous industry business sales in recent years including printers, including offset, screen, packaging, digital, in-house, label; and allied services such as print management companies and binderies.

Our industry knowledge is second to none in our field of expertise – we have over 25 years of printing industry experience in numerous roles – sales, sales management, product management, marketing management, consultancy and business sales and acquisitions.
We know the industry intimately – how printing companies operate, the machinery and systems they use, what vendors and acquirers are looking for, and how the market rates businesses.

We provide realistic appraisals based primarily on industry sales, not prescribed accounting formulas.