Writing the Company Description Section of a Business Turnaround Plan

p>The Company Description section of a businessstarted (was it in a garage?), where it was started,
turnaround plan is mostly informational. You will includeand who started it. This will give a little background
the basic logistical information (name, address,and possibly some insight into the current situation.
contact information) as well as a brief overviewThe goal of this section is to give a general
about the business.description of the overall operations-for both the
Since a turnaround plan contains information aboutpast company and the transformed company.
two companies, the previous company ant theYou goal is to allow the reader to picture the
transformed company, you may have two sets ofcompany in their minds and gain a good
information. Sometimes, the need for an entirely newunderstanding for the infrastructure. If the previous
image and business branding outweighs the costcompany had 50 branch offices, then describe those
associated with reestablishing these things so you willand give some demographic information about the
be transforming these elements along with thebranches, their locations, how the may differ, and so
business itself.forth.
If this is the case, you can make some briefIn general, do not get too far off track in this
statements about the logic behind the new name andsection. You do not want to get into the details of
branding, why the cost is justified and how this newthe business transformation in this section since it is
image will benefit the transformed company.more geared to being a description of the current
In this section you can give some backgroundand future companies.
information on the previous company, how it was