The Shanghai Seminars

Welcome to our new intercultural training program!
The following seminars take place at the TARGON headquarters in Shanghai. Contact us to be informed of their schedule.

Mergers & Acquisitions

The M&A Seminar: Mergers, Acquisitions & Joint Venturing for the machinery manufacturer. Defining strategic goals. Comprehensive search, assessment, opening negotiations, understanding the other party's goals; Using properly MoU‘s Letter of Interest, Letter of Intent, other Legalities, Audit & Due Diligence, various incidental agreements (Stockholders‘ Agreements, Employment Contracts, Marketing Agreements, Contingency Compensation Agreements…) and Closing. The seminar describes these steps with a lot of practical advice.

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Going Global

The Going Global Seminar: Preparing yourself to make the best usage of any time and resources you dedicate to solicit business from an overseas company, whether the deal is that you acquire the foreign company, you joint venture with them, or you distribute their products and they distribute yours. The seminar exposes a series of practical facts and steps to be better prepared and trained for inter-cultural business. We have experience in business with Greater Europe, China, India, Brazil, and several countries in the Middle East and Africa including communist and ex-communist countries.

The Energy Arena - Business Opportunities

The Energy Arena Seminar: Why energy prices are going to stay high worldwide and in the US, and what are the practical business opportunities it creates for the smaller regional firm. The seminar will give the background story and will review numerous consequences in: automobile dealership and ancillaries distribution; insulation materials and technologies for housing and construction; residential building techniques; professional services for energy management and savings; sale and installation of autonomous generators; shift from aviation gasoline (AV Gas) to kerosene (Jet fuel) for small aircraft; conversion to diesel engines; waste recycling and incineration; etc.

Making Money in Machinery

The Making Money in Machinery Seminar: This seminar requires 4 sessions. It is exclusively intended for the management and owners of businesses designing and selling machinery. All of them know how to design, manufacture and sell machinery but only 20% of them make consistent profits dues to the highly cyclical character of the market. The Seminar surveys the 12 Rules of Market Dominance and why compliance with these rules guarantees a high quality and resilience of profits.

With over three decades of experience, Targon-GEAN Overseas is the only firm in the world specializing in management consulting for machinery manufacturers, and one of the few with significant experience in management of industrial goods manufacturers (industrial machine components, ingredients and additives).

Targon-GEAN Overseas' largest and most comprehensive mission was, from 1987-1999, with one firm which eventually became the world leader in machinery for primary aluminium smelters (see library). During this mission, Targon-GEAN Overseas became active in strategic analysis and implementation for the primary aluminum industry and the energy related industries since 1980.

In addition to consulting services, Targon-GEAN Overseas publishes

The ENAL Newsletter

A unique, complete ten-year forecast account and forecast of investments in the primary aluminum smelting industry and in related energy generation facilities.

GEAN's clients and ex-clients are often world leaders on their markets and are located in North America, Europe and Asia. We have been instrumental in approximately 60 acquisitions or joint ventures, most often across borders, always between manufacturers of industrial goods.