A half-day event designed for business owners in the Eastern Townships, focusing on topics such as promoting your business and managing your assets.
Transferring your business is a pivotal moment. It involves financial, human, and strategic decisions that will have a lasting impact on your future and that of what you have built. To move forward with confidence, you need to understand both the value of your business and how to protect your personal assets.
Organized by Économie Estrie, this half-day event will bring together two areas of expertise, business valuation and wealth management, to offer a comprehensive, concrete, and accessible overview of the key steps to a successful succession.
On the agenda
CONFERENCE | Assessing the value of a company
Francis Boucher, CPA, CBV, Partner, Advisory Services at Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton & Cie – Sherbrooke Office
A conference that demystifies the key factors influencing a company’s value: valuation context, type of buyer, actions to maximize value, and main pitfalls to avoid before a transition. A clear and concrete overview to better prepare for the succession process.
PANEL | Writing the sequel: true stories
A panel where entrepreneurs from Eastern Townships will share their concrete experiences of succession: their hesitations, the challenges they faced, the surprises along the way, and what they wish they had known earlier. An authentic, hands-on discussion to enlighten business owners about the reality of business transition, beyond theory.
CONFERENCE | UNDERSTANDING YOUR ASSETS
Geneviève Blanchard, CIM, Senior Wealth Management Advisor and Portfolio Manager, BMO Gestion Privée, Groupe Blanchard
A conference that provides a better understanding of how to protect, structure, and optimize your personal assets during a transition process. Geneviève Blanchard will discuss the key factors to consider when securing your assets, planning your financial transition, and making informed decisions for the future.
Why take part?
- To gain a comprehensive, clear, and concrete overview of the succession process.
- To better understand the value of your business and your personal options.
- Making informed and secure decisions for yourself and your family.
- To hear authentic stories from local entrepreneurs.
- To meet other business owners who are facing the same issues.
Who is this event for?
Primarily to transferring business owners—whether they are just beginning to consider the process or are already engaged in formal proceedings.
Logistical details
February 12, 2026, from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Burroughs Falls Dance Hall, Ayer’s Cliff
Breakfast included
$50 per participant
This event is presented by Économie Estrie and has been made possible thanks to the financial support of the Government of Quebec, the Memphremagog RCM, CAE Méphremagog, the Coaticook RCM, and the SADC de la région de Coaticook, as well as the collaboration of Repreneuriat Québec.
About the Repreneurship Meetings
These themed events aim to highlight local resources available to support business transferors and buyers in the Eastern Townships throughout the complex process of business transfer.
Moving from one edition to the next in a new MRC to meet with entrepreneurs, each event aims to offer concrete content, authentic testimonials, and expertise to help ensure a successful business transfer.