Business & Finance Glossary: 1

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100-Day Plan

A 100-day plan is the structured programme an acquirer follows in the first roughly three months after completing an acquisition to stabilise the business and begin realising the value it paid for. It sequences the priorities: securing the key people and customers, communicating with staff, connecting essential systems and controls, and starting on the synergies that justified the deal — without disrupting what already works. The first hundred days set the tone of the integration and are where most acquisitions succeed or quietly fail, because the intangible assets a buyer paid for, from customer relationships to institutional knowledge, are most fragile in the period of change. A good 100-day plan is drafted before completion, informed by what due diligence revealed, and owned by a named integration lead. For buy-and-build acquirers it becomes a repeatable playbook applied to every bolt-on.

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