Jeremy Harbour - Agglomerate: from idea to IPO in 12 months

As a champion for growth and ambition, Nasdaq congratulates the continued success of The Marketing Group after its successful IPO on First North.

The Marketing Group is among the many global companies listed on Nasdaq First North that have gone on to grow, innovate, and deliver great returns for their investors.

Nasdaq is proud to be the listing partner of The Marketing Group and looks forward to its continued growth in the future.

Nelson Griggs, Executive Vice President of Listings Services at Nasdaq

Praise

This great book doesnt just comprehensively bust and de-bunk the myths of the entrepreneurial journey, it gives us a seriously fresh way of creating value. Simply brilliant and an absolute must read.

Paul Dunn, Chairman, Buy One Give One, www.b1g1.com

Agglomerate is a hard hitting book that reveals the ugly truth behind entrepreneurship slogging long hours for pittance, running out of funds, etc, which other business books tend to sweep under the carpet. Jeremy and Callum offer a game-changing concept, which, if executed well, could be the lifeline for many businesses.

Pearlin Siow, author, Boss Of Me (www.bossofme.sg)

Having been selling small engineering companies for the last 10 years, it has become increasingly difficult as they are too small for the big boys and the small boys dont have the cash. Also, the price expectation of the seller is way out of line with reality. The Agglomeration model fixes all these issues and gives the owners/shareholders both scale and liquidity. This model has formerly only been open to the big boys who pay massive advisory fees. Now its open to much smaller enterprises.

Chris Cundy, Techsearch M&A.

Truly revolutionary thinking on how to increase wealth and change the world. The model that Callum and Jeremy have designed is robust and proven. The book is written for entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs and will change the way you look at businesses and wealth creation. A must read for every budding businessman and investor!

Rajesh Nair

Agglomeration is a great new concept that solves many problems for small business owners: talent retention, succession planning, liquidity, value creation, the scale paradox and more. It works particularly well when agglomerating geographically diverse similar businesses, as the authors have already proven with their The Marketing Group project.

Hans Kull, Managing Director, InMatic

Youd better read this book and do it fast, because it shows ways to increase shareholder value. Entrepreneurs needs this book; it is a gem. The ideas, strategies and tactics are all used in making real deals. Jeremy Harbour and Callum Laing are changing the game of entrepreneurship.

Goran Pregelj, Investor in SMEs globally

Its sad but true. Many entrepreneurs go into business thinking that itll give them more time and more money, but it takes up all their time and all their money.

We are envious of those entrepreneurs who made it big either by raising tons of money or selling their businesses for tons of money. How do they do it?

Agglomerate is a no-holds-barred book. It is going to bust some myths about entrepreneurship while providing ground-breaking, insightful knowledge and ideas of how to make more wealth. You will be thinking hard while, and long after, you read this book.

LayYong Ooi, Co-founder, BodyTree GST a gymnastic strength training studio

While there are hundreds of thousands of great SME businesses out there, most will never reach their growth potential or provide the owners and shareholders with the real value of the years of service to their companies. Callum and Jeremy have created an exciting model of agglomeration which provides an SME and its stakeholders with the opportunity to scale, offers shareholder liquidity, and supports founders in reaching their dreams. In this next wave, collaboration models like this will transform the ability of small great companies to reach their true potential and reward their investors. I expect this will encourage and enable much more investment interest in the SME market as its major challenge has been liquidity. The SME panacea?

Ross Stokes, Vice President Partnerships & Alliances, ETP Group

Meeting Callum and his team from the Unity Group was an eye opener. Agglomeration seemed to be such a new concept, it couldnt be real. Having worked with them closely, it is real and it works! These guys walk the talk.

Gareth G Berlee, Director, Sienna Offshore & Marine Pte Ltd

Jeremys book on Agglomeration shows small to medium sized companies how to achieve the value thats sitting in SMEs and how to unlock value that is frozen in the business. Working with family offices and entrepreneurs, they want to be rewarded for their hard work. Without the right formula they may chase the wrong deal, when the right one is under their noses. Jeremys process for creating a cooperative of entrepreneurs enables entrepreneurs to double or triple their value in one deal and more importantly give them a platform to grow and ultimately exit their business.

Paul Renner, Family Office Advisor, www.paulrenner.com

I first met Callum many years ago in Bangkok and was intrigued and impressed by what he was doing there. A while later, I found myself attending a micro-workshop on M&A in Bangkok, which was hosted by Callum and conducted by Jeremy Harbour. This was time well spent and opened my mind up to the opportunities and methods that were introduced. Even later, I found out that Callum had moved on to Singapore and was involved in cutting-edge business there, along with Jeremy, so I was even further impressed with their perseverance, tenacity and creativity. These two gentlemen have written their own books and, coupled with their multitude of experience, have now partnered up to write another excellent book, which should be a must read for any entrepreneur or business-minded person in the 21st Century. Buy a copy of Agglomerate and prepare to be blown away.

Mark J. Grygiel, thairestaurantventures.com

For every entrepreneur who dreamed big but was just not sure how this is the book. Once closely guarded secrets of the super wealthy, finally there is a book that not only shows you how to do it but also makes it achievable for every entrepreneur and especially the small to medium sized business owners. This book reveals the simple and easy steps to achieve intergenerational wealth and have a business you love. This is a must read for every entrepreneur.

Dr David Dugan

What goes into this book is innovation at its best! Theres so much talk about the sharing economy; Callum and Jeremy show us how even a company structure can be shared for a winning outcome. A must-read for anyone who owns a piece of business.

BoonSeong Low, Founder of Align Group and creator of the National Workplace Happiness Survey (Singapore)

This book is a real eye-opener. Jeremy and Callum have laid out concisely why the accepted wisdom of starting a company and growing it organically is not the best use of the founders limited time. That traditional financing options are just not geared towards the interest of SMEs in general. And the exits that founders read about in the news and often dream about, just dont become reality for the vast majority of founders. However, there is hope in an alternative path, one that brings together the best from various funding models and chooses collaboration over competition.

This book is a must-read for all SME owners, especially so if youve been in business for a number of years, and feeling disillusioned about the path forward.

Keson Lim

At last! A common sense book in plain English about how to quickly build a group and more importantly equity. Its blunt, to the point and educational. Well done guys.