Monday, 18 January 2016

Robert Decusati - Finding the Best Investment Solutions

When Robert Decusati bought Premier Top Solutions, an old manufacturing company, he adopted the strategy of investing capital where it could do the most good – improving manufacturing productivity, smoothing throughput and getting productsto the client faster. He worked on the replacement of an outdated IT system and developed a way to report the profitability per customer. This gave him the insight to improve pricing procedures, and increase prices where it would benefit the company the most without losing any customers. He sought ways to improve the staff where possible. All his efforts resulted in him being able to profitable sell Premier Top Solutions after 27 months of buying it.

This did not happen by chance. Robert had been honing his ability to choose from among the various investment opportunities that present themselves throughout his career. As Director, Production Inventory Control at Rubbermaid, he introduced new products and implemented Kanban, while getting rid of 750 SKUs that were no longer justified by customer demand.
At Eastern Seaboard Packaging, he negotiated a joint venture to secure a national distribution footprint and conducted due diligence on ten possible acquisitions before selecting the two that were best for the company.

And at Klockner Pentaplast as Corporate Controller America, he concluded four more acquisitions, as well as implementing a SERP and managing a successful transition to SAP 6.0.

All of this was excellent preparation for the successful reconstruction and sale of Premier Top Solutions, company owned by Robert Decusati.