Making your US market expansion work on time and on Budget.
With over thirty-year’s experience in the US market, we provide all the tools you need to make the American market work for you.
Understand and define the purpose and profitability of the US market to you.
How and why will your company be profitable in the US, when and why, how do I structure my operation, under and manage the risks….now and in the future
What are the costs, risks and rewards associated with my strategy and how do I understand and manage the process, what will success look like and why
Get the local knowledge you need from vastly experienced experts to understand all the practicalities of a US market entry
At AmericanHub we provide all the straightforward advice and local resources you need to identify and expand your US market presence. Working with precision and focus we help identify the critical market entry points allowing for a clear understanding as to how best establish and grow your US market share in an efficient, cost effective manner. We take away the guesswork, help you understand the financial and operational risks. You need a blueprint and we provide the resources to allow you create the plan and then execute on it with purpose, flexibility and precision.
We handle all the back-office processes you need to operate your business efficiently in the US; including the nationwide physical product distribution, ongoing invoicing and billing with overnight reporting, account/cash collection and the financial recording/reporting needs in a cost effective and prudent manner. We connect you with, help oversee and manage, all the vital third-party local services you need. All our costs are agreed in advance.
We have the experience to understand what works in the US and why. We are your due diligence experts. We help you get the project right the first time, grow and build a world class profitable US operation.
Strategy
Market investigation where is your market and why, how do you get your share of it, and how profitable is it to you
What Structure do I need, understanding the vital legal, accounting, insurance and financial risks. What are the specific risks and costs associated with the venture
What Resources do I need and when, what will I need in the future?
What will success look like ? how will it be measured and monitored, how and why do we get there ?
Practicalities
Distribution including assembly, storage and nationwide distribution
Invoicing customers, cash collection, ongoing account management and supervision. All the necessary back office systems to better understand and manage the day to day operational and financial risks
Ongoing sales and marketing related activities. Getting to you customers and keeping them profitable, making your ground game work in a concentrated and disciplined manner
Customer development calling programs, appointment setting, digital strategy and execution. Focus and plan development together with ongoing performance measurement and reporting
experience
AmericanHub representatives will be in place as your direct link to help manage and execute on your US market entry.
Managing partner, Paul Downey, is an expert in corporate restructuring and turnaround management. Paul is a doer, and has worked in a variety of roles to help drive rapid and dramatic performance improvement in complex and difficult situations for those companies facing acute performance issues.
Mr. Downey has been engaged across a wide range and variety of industries, including manufacturing, distribution and commercial real estate companies. Paul has acted in a variety of roles, including temporary CEO, tasked with taking direct responsibility of the situation and returning the company to profit, and or, executing an appropriate and agreed exit plan. An expert in finance and crisis management, Paul can quickly gain an understanding of the key issues, develop a turnaround plan to help gain the confidence of the key stakeholders and thereby provide the time to allow for the return to profit.
Paul enjoys an enviable reputation throughout the banking and M&A world as a results oriented expert in difficult complex situations.
Mr. Downey as also acted (at the request of the court, and or, by the financial institution) as a court appointed receiver in over fifty cases. In these complex situations Paul often returns the entity to profit and executes on an exit plan to best benefit all the stakeholders. Many of these receiverships involved large complex commercial real estate properties, including apartments properties, large scale industrial/office complexes, requiring immediate stabilizing of the asset, simultaneously developing and executing on the immediate management need while determining and executing an effective exit strategy.
Case Studies
Represented a significant EU consumer-based brand and their efforts to establish a US beachhead while continuing to physically supply from Ireland. Created a broker network, developed APP based inventory placement and billing service, incorporated invoice paying guaranty platform and physical US distribution nationwide.
Happy to provide a full range of our past and ongoing successes in a confidential and discrete manner.
Turnaround & Transformations and Corporate Restructuring
If your existing US operation is underperforming or not meeting its potential we can help. With over twenty years’ experience and a global business ecosystem we help drive rapid and dramatic performance improvement.
Our managing partner, Paul Downey, is a hands-on expert in corporate restructuring and turnaround management working closely with clients to solve liquidity, operational and or organizational challenges.