Events

2007-11-29
Peoria, Illinois
8:15 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Manufacturing & Innovation: Enhancing Business Value in a Global Community

• Learn business building ideas
• Hear experts on topics that impact your business
• Network with your peers
• Merger & Acquisition update

Topics Include:

Agenda:

8:15 a.m. - Registration and continental breakfast

8:45 a.m. - Welcome and opening remarks

• Dave Seiler, Managing Director, Manufacturing & Wholesale Distribution Practice Leader

8:50 a.m. - State of Manufacturing and Wholesale Distribution

• Tom Murphy, Executive Vice President, National Manufacturing & Wholesale Distribution, RSM McGladrey

This session will provide:

• An overview of MWD Survey 2007 results and implications highlighting Business Process, Inventory Management, Supply Chain & Information Technology
• An overview of the current challenges and opportunities confronting MWD industry executives
• The practices essential to helping you better compete in the global marketplace

9:20 a.m. - Winning the Workforce Battle

• Bill Canis, Acting President of the Manufacturing Institute

10:10 a.m. - Break (20 minutes)

10:30 a.m. - Forces & Factors: The Mergers & Acquisitions Climate

• Bill Shiry, Managing Director, RSM Equico
• Brian Boyle, Managing Director, RSM Equico

Whether you are in a buying or selling mode, interested in recapitalizing your business, or contemplating raising debt or equity capital, you’ll appreciate this update.

RSM EquiCo will address:

• Latest trends in the M&A industry
• M&A and capital markets overview, including valuation ranges
• Factors driving activity
• Acquirers and their motivations
• Sellers and their motivations
• Internationalization of the middle market

11:15 a.m. - Merger & Acquisition Panel Discussion – How To Enhance the Value of Your Company

• Jim O’Donnell (Moderator), President of O’Donnell Capital
• Bill Shiry, Managing Director RSM Equico
• Pat Martin, Rock Island Capital
• Julie Nimmons, Chairman of the Board for Schutt Holdings, Inc.

12:15 p.m. - Break (15 minutes)

12:30 p.m. - Lunch and networking with your peers

• Greg Baise, President of Illinois Manufacturing Association