Latest Posts Under: RTA in the Press

Business transfer agents: Time to crack down on rogue operators who demand money for nothing Hit by the recession or maybe just retiring or moving on, there are countless owners of small businesses who’d like to sell up. Business transfer agents are supposedly there to help them find a buyer. But today I lift the… Read Article →

If companies like RTA tell you there’s a buyer for your business – then BEWARE Wish I could make money this easily – £6,000 in just an hour and a half. That’s what Paul O’Reilly, the boss of a controversial firm of business transfer agents called RTA, expects. One of his reps visited Peter Ullmann,… Read Article →

http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/investigations/2012/02/and-welcome-back-to-the-column.html 22nd FEBRUARY, 2012 After a brief absence, it’s time to welcome back RTA “business sales specialists”. We revealed last summer how the firm’s manager Ceri Edwards admitted its contracts were “draconian” and “heavily weighted in RTA’s favour”. Previously we’ve told of clients whose businesses were not sold but RTA still demanded huge fees. Now… Read Article →

We’re draconian admits manager of RTA business sales firm http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/investigations/2011/06/yes-we-are-draconian-admits-ma.html JUNE 29, 2011 We’ve already had a few run-ins with Paul O’Reilly, boss of what claims be Europe’s largest privately owned business sales agency, and now things have turned particularly nasty. O’Reilly wrote to one unhappy customer who’d seen our stories to tell him: “What… Read Article →

Businessmen, please beware RTA Business Consultants 22nd March 2011 on NoodleIt.com http://www.noddleit.com/nod/i6875 The Federation of Small Businesses, who we are part of, are warning their members about using RTA (Business Consultants) Limited – they have RTA listed in their ‘scams library’! Small businesses are losing large sums of money by attempting to sell their businesses… Read Article →

Reported : 16th May 2010 Story reported in The Grocer by Jac Roper “As I write this Jaswinder Singh Dhesi and his wife Sukvinder Kaur are celebrating in Tamworth following a court victory with business transfer agents RTA (which the Daily Mirror’s investigations team says stands for ‘road traffic accident’. Just Google to read all… Read Article →

Reported by Jac Roper, The Grocer http://www.thegrocer.co.uk/articles.aspx?page=independentarticle&ID=200589 12 June 2009 Sukhvinder Kaur and her husband Dhesi Jaswinder have been having a serious barney with business transfer agents RTA. She writes: “In March 2006 I put my shop on sale through RTA. I had also paid them an advertising fee up front. However, in August 2008… Read Article →

http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/investigations/2009/12/we-nail-that-rta-sales-pitch.html DECEMBER 16, 2009 Our old mate Paul O’Reilly wasn’t pleased to hear from us. “You will obviously be aware that I have always found your tactics distasteful and you do nothing more than emphasise this view with your latest approach,” said the boss of RTA (Business Consultants) Ltd. His outfit claims to help people… Read Article →

http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/investigations/2009/04/rta-business-consultantswant-2.html APRIL 15, 2009 Fancy £26,450 for not doing anything useful? That seems to be what commercial estate agents RTA Business Consultants want. We’ve written before about this lot taking fees from people wanting to sell their businesses, and who then get no offers. But we’ve not come across anything like this. Ken Bryan paid… Read Article →

http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/investigations/2009/03/rta-business-transfer-agents–.html MARCH 26, 2009 Underhand, wrong, unfair. That’s us, according to Paul O’Reilly, director of business transfer agents RTA (Business Consultants) Ltd, who slated us in a letter to one of his unhappy clients. Valda Thorn put her pub on the market with RTA, paying £3,500 in late 2007 after being told it would sell… Read Article →

http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/investigations/2009/01/rta-estate-agents-accused-of-f.html JANUARY 8, 2009 In police parlance, an RTA is a road traffic accident. Which seems apt, because a firm named RTA (Business Consultants) Limited is a car crash of a business. It claims to be the most successful privately-owned business estate agency – not just in Britain, but in Europe. Among those who’d disagree… Read Article →

http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/investigations/2008/09/rta-didnt-sell-my-shop-and-sti.html SEPTEMBER 4, 2008 Surf shop owner Steve Clarke paid estate agents £750 to sell his business and was asked for another £500 to cancel when they failed to do do. Steve put his Cornwall shop up for sale with RTA (Business Consultants) Ltd, of Stockport, but said: “Only once in 12 months did they… Read Article →

http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/investigations/2007/09/rta-failed-to-sell-our-shop-bu.html SEPTEMBER 20, 2007 NO one likes a bill out of the blue, so you can picture how Peter and Sandra Hoyland felt to get a demand for £22,000 from a firm they hadn’t dealt with for more than four years. In 2002 they paid business estate agent RTA (Business Consultants) Ltd £750 to put… Read Article →

http://www.conveniencestore.co.uk/advice/selling-up/190997.article 27th JULY, 2007 Yes, life is too short to read all the contracts you come across with their various clever and convoluted clauses (always written, bear in mind, on behalf of companies with better lawyers than you are ever going to be able to afford). But there is one where I urge you to get… Read Article →

http://www.conveniencestore.co.uk/advice/dear-jac-selling-up-sign-your-name-here/190256.article 20th OCTOBER, 2006 Except, as regular readers will know, you need to watch what you sign. Following my write up of Raymond Brunt’s court clash with business transfer agents RTA, four other retailers got in touch, all saying variations on “the same thing happened to me”. One of them, who prefers to remain anonymous… Read Article →

http://www.conveniencestore.co.uk/advice/dear-jac-the-retailer-the-business-transfer-agent-and-the-court-case/190145.article 22nd SEPTEMBER, 2006 This one is so quirky you couldn’t make it up. Raymond Brunt is the retailer and he tells me that he often gets reps calling at his store, Penningtons at Leigh in Lancashire, offering everything from cheaper power to double glazing. He says he has a hobby that usually dissuades salespeople…. Read Article →