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Thursday, August 30, 2012

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The Post-Labor Day Boom

Monday is Labor Day and that means two things: the end of summer and the beginning of the busiest period for the PE industry. It’s time for the inevitable post-Labor Day boom. Although everyone knows it exists, we decided to try to quantify the boom. How much does deal activity actually pick up after Labor Day?
To investigate, we dove into the data from 2011. We looked at deal activity on AxialMarket a month before and two months after the holiday. The rumors are confirmed - the number of deals brought to market the week after Labor Day increased 20% compared to the week before. The second week back saw dealflow increase another 47%. By the second week in October, the weekly deal number (and presumably your workload) was nearly 3x larger than any week in August.




Looks like a busy couple of months ahead - hope you’re well rested. Enjoy the weekend and see you back in the market next week!





Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Andice Integrated Funding: Intelligent Growth Capital

While questions remain about where the economy may be heading into the latter half of the year, we have seen entrepreneurs obtaining larger orders and taking advantage of opportunities by utilizing our working capital and integrated funding programs.
AIF provides funding of inventory required to fill sales orders from credit worthy end buyers at an advance rate of up to 100% of the cost of the inventory. AIF, as a funding integrator we also work with a factor, asset-based lenders, or banks in each of our transactions and look to partner with senior debt financing sources thereby providing a completely integrated supply chain funding solutions.
Our funding programs are customized to support:
• Finished goods inventory trade transactions for importers, exporters, and wholesale distributors

• Production or value added transactions for light manufacturers, assemblers, and processors

• Companies operating in consumer goods, industrial products, food, and government contract industries

AIF specialized funding programs provide:

• Funding for transactions ranging in size from $300,000 to $200,000,000 or more

• Letters of credit, credit guarantees or cash funding for the purchase of finished goods, raw materials, components, and logistics costs. In certain cases, funding can be made for direct labor and direct overhead relating to specific transactions.

Please call us today to discuss any opportunity that could use our integrated funding expertise and capacity for working capital and contract funding in the U.S. and Canada.

Thank you for your continued support as we look forward to working with you in the near future.

Ann Reade-Moore
www.andicefunding.com

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Manufacturing Is Returning to America

Although it may not be the panacea that everyone seems to think it will be.


The robots of today aren’t the androids or Cylons that we are used to seeing in science fiction movies, but specialized electromechanical devices run by software and remote control. As computers become more powerful, so do the abilities of these devices. Robots are now capable of performing surgery, milking cows, doing military reconnaissance and combat, and flying fighter jets. Several companies, such as Willow Garage, iRobot and 9th Sense, sell robot-development kits for which university students and open-source communities are developing ever-more sophisticated applications.


Note what’s missing from this picture: Jobs for people from the left side of the Bell Curve, the sort of people who work on assembly lines and join unions. This is bad news for the Democrats and throws them back on the other half of their base, i.e. welfare recipients. Look for them to push even harder for increased dependency on the government largesse that they use to buy votes.


How will we turn these designs into products? By “printing” them at home or at modern-day Kinko’s using shared public manufacturing facilities such as TechShop, a membership-based manufacturing workshop featuring manufacturing technologies now on the horizon.


Another hit for the working class. The emerging technology of ‘contour crafting’ will affect the building trades the way that Henry Ford’s assembly line did the manufacturing trades. Once we have programmable machines to ‘print’ houses, there won’t be a lot for bricklayers, carpenters, plumbers, and electricians to do.


In additive manufacturing, parts are produced by melting successive layers of materials based on three-dimensional models — adding materials rather than subtracting them. The “3D printers” that produce these parts use powdered metal, droplets of plastic and other materials — much like the toner cartridges that go into laser printers. This allows the creation of objects without tools or fixtures. The process doesn’t produce waste material and there is no additional cost for complexity. Just as, thanks to laser printers, a page filled with graphics doesn’t cost much more than one with text (other than the cost of toner), with 3D printers we can print a sophisticated 3D structure for what it would cost to print something simple.


More efficient, more economical, more ‘green’ — you name it, automation does it. What happens when ‘customized’ products are the same price as mass-produced? The ‘fashion’ industry ought to be getting pretty nervous right about now. Upside: Prices will plummet. Downside: How are people going to pay even these low prices without a job to generate income?


Of course, there will always be niche positions for custom craftsmen — there are people today making a living doing custom wood and stone work — but that’s not going to float the working class.


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