Meaning-driven growth

Our commitment and bespoke approach put us in the top tier among professional client service providers.

With a well-balanced blend of experience, talent and instinct, we are attuned to client needs, be they international corporations, family businesses or start‑ups.

Our client relationships are long-term. Listening to our clients, getting to know their corporate culture and dynamically responding to internally and externally driven change is, to us, as key as achieving growth.

We are enablers

We create, start-up, organize and build MAKO ASSOCIATES-backed enterprises in the Central and Eastern Europe region.

We are looking for associates with worthwhile ideas; start-up projects, divestments and mergers; where we can participate as shareholders.

We look for entrepreneurs who are committed, action-minded, in it for the long run, great listeners; who have founded their own business ventures.

We bring new perspectives to companies we go into business with.

Strategy

The most effective business strategy is not about trying to be the best and gain a competitive advantage, but be distinctive and noteworthy.

MAKO ASSOCIATES is a functional incubator, designed to support great companies and their management teams. With us you’ll get access to know-how and resources, and use whatever really matters to you.

We’ll help you identify your business and product, your customer, your company values, the timing of your market launch; map the competition and market size; choose the best-fit business and financial model; set up human capital management.

Our goal is to direct your long-term efforts to becoming exceptional. We are convinced all companies have that potential.

Marketing

Setting your product price is one of the most important decisions a company has to make. And yet, it is often something a company gets round to only after all else is said and done.

Start-up companies tend to set low prices initially, in order to attract customers, but often fail to raise them even once it is clear that there will be plenty of customer demand for their product.

A more considered approach to pricing can increase company profits, grow customer satisfaction, and often help to reveal popular product version that the company had not previously thought about.

Price setting is an art as well as a science, relying on marketing, psychology, classical economics know-how.

MAKO ASSOCIATES turns information into intelligence and knowledge you can act on, to your advantage. We will help you set the right product price, to grow your satisfied customer base, and thus, your profitability.

Human Capital

The key to starting a successful initiative is to surround yourself with the right people. The only way is to take up the task systematically, not leaving it to chance.

MAKO ASSOCIATES hires notable people, who can work with our clients in unprecedented circumstances on exceptional projects.

We will help you prepare and implement your recruitment drive. Working with us means you get recruitment costs and critical hire timescales all under control.

Enterprise

We stand by our clients in times of growth and first strategic decisions, in times of expansion of their activities, as well as when they need to take drastic measures to save the company.

Our key enabler is our communication with company founder-owners as well as shareholders. They are the guardians of company values, pursuing their vision and keen to achieve their goals.

We help company founder-owners set up working founders councils and governance bodies, involving those most experienced and knowledgeable. Their mission is to assist the owners in solving problems, promoting best practices and demonstrating integrity, all geared toward improving company prospects.

We also bring best-practice inspiration to family-owned firms, where in addition to setting up functional governance, we often face generational change and succession challenges.