Do you have an exit plan for your green industry business? Are you counting on your business to fund your retirement or other activities?

For most green industry business owners, their business represents their most significant asset and one that they expect to rely on to finance their retirement or the next step on their life's adventure. As important as it may be, few have taken the steps to understand the real value of that asset or how to increase the probability that they can unlock the value of that asset when they want to.

Ron Edmonds is president of The Principium Group, a leading advisory firm serving the Green Industry in the areas of mergers b& acquisitions, exit planning and capital formation.

For buyers, he assists in developing strategic plans for acquisitions, identifying targets, facilitating negotiations, structuring transactions and conducting due diligence investigations.

For sellers, he advises on preparing businesses for sale and represents sellers by marketing their businesses.

He is particularly focused on advising green industry business owners in the area of exit planning because he believes that planning will often allow green industry business owners to achieve a better result when the time comes to exit their businesses.

Edmonds is an expert in green industry mergers and acquisitions, having played a key role in hundreds of transactions over the past ten years. He is the author of "Green Exit – Exit Planning for Green Industry Business Owners," along with two other books. He edits a monthly newsletter, "Green Industry Merger & Acquisition News." He is frequently quoted in industry publications and has had several articles published in industry publications, including Landscape Management. He holds BS and MS degrees in accounting from Oklahoma State University and previously was in private practice as a CPA. He is based in Cordova, Tennessee in the Memphis area, but serves clients throughout North America.

For more information, visit www.PrincipiumGroup.com.