Name

Myers La Roche

Legal name

Myers La Roche

Website

https://myerslaroche.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

1985

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Optical practice brokerage and healthcare business transfer services

akta.pro primary industry

Succession & Exit Planning (Owner Exit Readiness) (FSAEAIAF)

akta.pro secondary industry

Professional Practice Brokerage (Medical/Dental/Legal/Accounting) (FSAEAIAI)

Keywords

• Optical practice brokerage
• Healthcare business transfer
• Practice valuations
• Exit planning consultancy
• Independent practice sales

Headquarters

HQ city

Altrincham

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Practice Sales Brokerage: Myers La Roche acts as a business transfer agent, facilitating the sale of independent optical, audiology, and podiatry practices. They charge fees or commissions for matching buyers with sellers and managing the transaction process. The company emphasizes confidential, competitive bidding situations to maximize sale prices for vendors.
2. Exit Planning Services (Exit 360 Pathfinder): The Exit 360 Pathfinder is a structured exit planning consultancy service that provides comprehensive business valuations, operating KPI analysis, and strategic recommendations to prepare practice owners for optimal exit outcomes. This service is offered as a distinct revenue stream prior to or independent of actual practice sales.
3. Practice Valuations: Myers La Roche offers three types of valuations: Enhanced Valuation (for business reasons such as exit planning and benchmarking), Sales Valuation (used as part of managed practice sales), and Formal Valuation (for fiscal purposes including probate, divorce, and partnership disputes). These consultancy services generate fees for detailed valuation reports.
4. NDA and Documentation Fees: The company charges £35.00 plus VAT for Non-Disclosure Agreements that buyers must sign before receiving detailed practice information. This represents a minor transactional revenue stream.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Myers La Roche is a specialist business transfer agent and consultancy that facilitates the buying, selling, valuing, and exit planning of independent optical practices across the UK and Ireland. Their services span the full ownership lifecycle—from acquisition brokerage and confidential competitive bidding processes, through valuations, organic growth and M&A advisory, to structured exit planning via their proprietary Exit 360 Pathfinder methodology. They have extended the same model into audiology and podiatry sectors via dedicated sub-brands.

Product overview

Myers La Roche offers a unified platform of business consultancy services for independent healthcare practices, centered on optical practice brokerage and exit planning. The core offering comprises Practice Sales/Brokerage (matching buyers and sellers of optical practices), the Exit 360 Pathfinder Service (comprehensive exit planning with valuations and recommendations), Optical Practice Valuation (Enhanced, Sales, and Formal valuations), and Organic Business Growth/Merger & Acquisition services. The company has expanded into adjacent sectors via Audiology Business Central and Podiatry Business Central. Additional offerings include the Deal Checker Service, purchasable NDA documents, and specialized franchise valuation guides for Specsavers, Boots Opticians, and Vision Express.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Practice Sales / Brokerage Confidential brokerage service facilitating the buying and selling of independent optical practices across Britain and Ireland, with over 100 practices on the market at any time and competitive bidding to maximize sale prices.
• Exit 360 Pathfinder Service Comprehensive exit planning consultancy providing technical and marketing valuations, KPI analysis, operating efficiency assessment, staffing recommendations, and detailed exit pathway reports for optical practice owners preparing to sell.
• Optical Practice Valuation Specialist optical practice valuation service covering Enhanced Valuation (for business planning and benchmarking), Sales Valuation (for practice sales), and Formal Valuation (for probate, divorce, and partnership disputes), using normalized EBITDA methodology rather than turnover multiples.
• Organic Business Growth Advisory Mentoring and consultancy services to grow optical practices organically, including guidance on business models, navigating megatrends, and adopting emerging technologies.
• Merger and Acquisition Advisory Growth advisory for optical business owners pursuing inorganic growth through acquisition or merger, ranging from simple record card purchases to targeted strategic exercises.
• Audiology Business Central Specialist business advice, valuations, and brokerage services for audiology practice owners delivered through a dedicated sub-brand website, applying the proven optical-sector model to the audiology market.
• Podiatry Business Central Tailored business advice, valuations, and brokerage services for podiatry practice owners delivered through a dedicated sub-brand website, applying the proven optical-sector model to the podiatry market.
• Deal Checker Service Due-diligence service providing confidence on deal value and terms for sellers who have already received offers, enabling renegotiation or introduction of alternative buyers where existing offers are suboptimal.
• Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) Standard NDA document purchasable through the website for £35 plus VAT, valid for 12 months and required before detailed information on practices for sale is released to prospective buyers.
• Specsavers Franchise Valuation Specialized valuation service for Specsavers optical franchise practices using a yield-based valuation approach tailored to franchise agreements and joint venture structures.
• Boots Opticians Franchise Valuation Specialized valuation service for Boots Opticians franchise practices using yield-based valuation methodology that accounts for franchise and joint venture agreement nuances.
• Vision Express Franchise Valuation Specialized valuation service for Vision Express franchise practices using yield-based and EBITDA-based valuation methodology tailored to Vision Express franchise dynamics.

Quantifiable outcome

• Sale price uplift of £90,000-£150,000 achieved for clients who sought second opinions after receiving suboptimal initial offers
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers14 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Audiology Business CentralcoreOthersA specialized division of Myers La Roche extending their proven model of comprehensive support to audiology practice owners. Provides specialist guidance on growth and exit planning for audiology professionals, leveraging the same expertise developed over 40 years in the optical sector.
• Podiatry Business CentralcoreOthersA specialized division providing tailored business advice, valuations, and brokerage services to podiatry professionals. Represents the natural evolution of Myers La Roche's services based on their deep understanding of independent healthcare businesses.
• AquAidminorOthersWater cooler supplier whose funds are used to build 'Elephant Pumps' - modified rope pulley systems providing clean drinking water in Africa. AquAid has built over 8,000 such pumps across Zimbabwe, Malawi and Liberia, with over £13 million donated to charity. Myers La Roche's partnership includes a charitable component supporting clean water initiatives.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Hunt & Co. Business Brokers (UK healthcare M&A boutique): Smaller, specialist UK M&A and business brokerage boutiques serving healthcare and professional services SMEs. Comparable as a niche challenger that could encroach on Myers La Roche's vertical with a more bespoke or digitally-enabled service model.

Direct peers

• Dental Elite: UK dental practice broker offering sales, acquisitions, valuations and buyer financing support. Comparable operating model and customer base (independent practice owners preparing to sell or buy), demonstrating the same vertical specialisation strategy Myers La Roche pursues in optical.
• Christie & Co: Long-established UK specialist business broker covering healthcare (including dental, pharmacy, veterinary and care), hospitality and leisure. Most directly comparable to Myers La Roche in operating a sector-specialist brokerage with valuation, sales and exit planning services across multiple healthcare verticals.
• Frank Taylor & Associates: UK specialist dental practice broker and valuers offering sales, acquisitions, valuations and exit planning. Highly comparable because it operates the same narrow-vertical, relationship-driven practice transfer model that Myers La Roche runs in optical.
• MediEstates: UK dental practice sales, valuations and finance broker. Directly comparable as a healthcare practice transfer agent serving independent owner-operators with brokerage, valuation and financing-adjacent services.

Broad incumbents

• Knightsbridge Business Sales: UK-wide generalist business transfer agent network handling SME sales and valuations. Comparable as a competing channel for independent practice owners considering a sale, though it competes on breadth rather than vertical expertise.
• Eddisons Commercial: UK-wide business sales, valuations and advisory firm covering multiple sectors including healthcare-related SMEs. Comparable as a broader professional-services incumbent that can compete for practice-sale mandates, though it does not specialise in optical.
• Hilton Smythe: Large UK generalist business broker handling sales of SMEs across many sectors. Comparable as a competitor for the broader UK practice-sale mandate, but lacks Myers La Roche's narrow optical specialisation and proprietary sector dataset.
• Transworld Business Advisors: International franchise and business brokerage group with UK presence handling SME mergers, acquisitions and franchise resales. Comparable in providing business transfer and M&A intermediation services to SME owners, though with a broader and more franchise-led focus.

Others

• KMP Accountants (Healthcare Advisory): UK accountancy and advisory firm with a dedicated healthcare practice offering valuations, tax and exit planning to practice owners. Comparable as an adjacent professional services provider whose services overlap with Myers La Roche's valuation and exit-planning offering.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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