I am looking to buy a manufacturing business in the health sector, and to run it.

My name is Vatsan Sarathy. I founded and run Vetrinex Labs, a supplement brand that has been trading since 2015.

We sell direct to consumers in the United States, in pet health. It is a real trading business with real customers, and it is what I do every day. I have been running my own businesses for about ten years, almost all of it on the commercial side. Selling, pricing, growth. For most of that time I have also been a manufacturer's customer, buying contract manufacturing for my own products.

I am buying for myself. I am not a broker, not a search fund, and not an agent acting for somebody else. Nobody is paying me a fee to write to you. I have experienced legal and financial advisers for the mechanics of a deal.

I live in London. I am looking across the whole of the UK.

A manufacturing business in health and the categories next to it. Supplements, nutrition, personal care.

The kind of place where the production and quality people know the plant better than any owner ever could. That is a feature, not a problem. It is most of what I am buying.

Sector

Manufacturing in health and related categories

Location

Anywhere in the UK. I will travel to you

Intent

To own it and run it, for the long term

If you make something close to this, it is worth a conversation even if you are not selling. Plenty of owners have never thought about it seriously, or thought about it once and put it down. Either is a fine place to start from. A first call costs you half an hour.

Half an hour, on Zoom or the phone, whichever you prefer. The point of it is to work out whether we are a fit for each other.

Mostly I listen. How the business works, how it got to where it is, and what you would want to happen if you ever did sell. I am as interested in what you would want to protect as in what you would want for it.

There is nothing to prepare and nothing to send me beforehand. We will probably end up talking about rough numbers, but only as far as you are comfortable, and nothing needs to be in writing.

No offer gets made on a first call and there is nothing to sign. At the end of it we will both know whether this is worth continuing. If it is not, I will say so plainly and you will not hear from me again.

Everything stays between us. I am happy to sign an NDA before we get into anything detailed.

Book a call30 minutes Or call me on 07780 390554.

I am buying to own the business and run it. Not to break it up, and not to sell it on in three years.

The site stays. The name stays. The people stay. I would be the owner rather than the plant manager, and I would expect to be told when I am about to do something daft on the factory floor.

How you leave is your choice. If you want to stay on for a year or two and hand over properly, that suits me well. If you want a clean exit, that works too. We would agree it early, not at the end.