A GENERATIONAL PERSPECTIVE ON SUSTAINABLE GROWTH.
As The Gund Company continues growing, we seek to form strategic partnerships with companies that share our perspective on people-first leadership.
At The Gund Company, our core values are deeply rooted in long-term, generational growth. We have built our business by consistently adding value for our customers and delivering quality, delivery, and service performance. Our commitment to our team members, whom we consider family, is a key driver of our growth. We are passionate about nurturing this growth and believe partnering with companies that share our values and philosophies is the way forward.
As a team, we aspire to recognize and serve others so that lives are transformed. We are one family, acting by our core values to balance taking care of each other, taking care of the customer, and taking care of the business.
Consistent with our organization’s strategic partnerships, our mergers and acquisitions allow our company to continue its healthy growth, opening up opportunities for our people’s growth and transformation. The purpose of a partnership relationship, merger, acquisition, or joint venture for The Gund Company includes leveraging:
- An opportunity to add value to customers by lowering costs while improving quality, delivery, and service.
- An opportunity to grow in complementary geographic or application markets.
- An opportunity to improve the talent of our team through our culture of continuous improvement that assimilates best practices; and
- An opportunity to drive efficiency through improved information and operational systems that drive profitability.
A Strategic Partnership with The Gund Company can take many forms:
- Benchmarking Projects – Sharing best practices to allow mutual improvement.
- Supplier Purchasing Group – Combining purchases to negotiate lower costs.
- Production Support – Sharing capability and capacity to meet customer needs.
- Joint Venture – Creating a new company together to take advantage of an opportunity.
- Merger – Combining our companies to create value-added synergies for the market.
- Acquisition – Acquiring either a minority, majority, or absolute position in a company.
For healthy, long-term, profitable growth, The Gund Company seeks open-minded companies that think out of the box to create value for customers, team members, and owners. Many of our partnering relationships have started small with either benchmarking or purchasing projects to drive both companies’ improvement. Some partnering projects have resulted in sharing production capability and capacity. Others have resulted in joint venture relationships and acquisitions. Our imagination limits the type of partnership for new ways to create value for our customers, team members, and owners.
The Gund Company seeks to partner with companies with a shared set of values that can build a solid long-term growth culture. Our company’s culture starts with our “Why.” Our “Why” gives meaning to our actions and purpose to our lives: Whether a partnering relationship or an eventual acquisition, each company must consider the business’s long-term future. Succession planning for a business can be highly challenging for owners. We seek to partner with owners in a very flexible way that allows them to meet their needs.
