Join FormFill Group

Whether you want to sell your business outright, merge it into our growing group, or partner with us to scale — we’d welcome a confidential, obligation-free conversation about what might work for you.

Three Ways to Join FormFill Group

Every business owner’s situation is different. We don’t have a one-size-fits-all approach — we structure each transaction around what makes the most sense for you and your business.

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Option 1

Merge Into the Group

Bring your business into FormFill Group as part of our integrated operation. Your customers, product lines and team become part of a larger, better-resourced business — with you potentially retaining an equity stake and ongoing role.

Best for: owners who want to keep contributing and share in the upside of what we build together.

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Option 2

Outright Sale

Sell your business to FormFill Group at a fair price and move on to your next chapter. We handle the transition professionally, look after your staff and customers, and honour everything you have built.

Best for: owners ready to exit fully with confidence that the business is in good hands.

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Option 3

Scale With Us

Not ready to exit but want access to our capital, technology and operational expertise to grow? We can structure a partnership or staged acquisition that gives you resources now and a clear pathway later.

Best for: owners who see the potential but lack the capital or bandwidth to get there alone.

Is Your Business a Fit?

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Location

Queensland Based

We focus on manufacturing businesses in South East Queensland. We want to be close to the operations we run.

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Size

Revenue $1M–$10M

Established owner-operated businesses with a proven customer base and consistent revenue. You don’t need to be large to be a great fit.

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Sector

Manufacturing Focus

Plastics, filling, packaging, chemicals, food processing and related manufacturing. If you make something, we want to hear about it.

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Opportunity

Room to Grow

Businesses where our automation, IoT monitoring, AI analytics or capital could unlock meaningful improvements and growth.

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People

Good Team & Customers

We value the relationships you have built. Your staff and customers are part of what makes your business worth acquiring.

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Timing

Any Stage of Thinking

You don’t need to have made a decision to talk to us. Early conversations are often the most useful — for both of us.

Owner-Operators, Not Financial Buyers

FormFill Group was founded by two engineers — Mathew Bowden and Bruce Bairstow — who have spent their careers building, running and improving manufacturing businesses. We are not a private equity firm. We don’t buy businesses to strip them or flip them quickly.

We buy and merge with manufacturing businesses because we know how to make them better. We bring 25 years of hands-on engineering, IoT technology and AI tools to every business we acquire — applied from the first day of ownership.

When your business joins FormFill Group, it becomes part of a vertically integrated, technology-enabled operation with better buying power, shared overhead, and genuine growth capability.

  • Alertify IoT sensors deployed across all production lines
  • Engram AI applied to scheduling, quality and procurement
  • 25+ years SCADA, PLC and automation expertise on the floor
  • Capital for equipment upgrades and capacity expansion
  • Shared management, admin and supply chain overhead
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Complete Confidentiality

We will never contact your staff, customers or suppliers without your explicit permission. Your decision to explore joining FFG is yours alone to manage and disclose.

Initial conversations are always obligation-free. No pressure, no timeline.

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How the process typically works
  1. Confidential initial conversation — no information required upfront
  2. High-level overview of your business at your comfort level
  3. Indicative interest and structure from us
  4. NDA signed before detailed information is shared
  5. Due diligence — professional, minimum disruption
  6. Heads of Agreement and final terms
  7. Settlement, transition and onboarding into the group

We Structure Deals That Work for You

What We Bring

  • Fair valuation based on what your business earns
  • Capital for the acquisition — investor-backed, no bank delays
  • Vendor finance welcomed as part of the structure
  • Equity rollover options for vendors who want upside
  • Earnout structures where performance warrants it
  • Transition support — we want your knowledge

What You Keep

  • Fair value for what you have built
  • Your staff looked after and retained
  • Your customer relationships maintained
  • Optional ongoing role during transition
  • Optional equity in the combined business
  • The knowledge your business will continue well

Talk to Us Confidentially

You don’t need to have made any decisions to reach out. A first conversation costs you nothing and commits you to nothing. We are genuinely interested in understanding your business and your situation.

All enquiries go directly to our founding team. We will respond personally — not through a broker or assistant.

Bruce Bairstow
Bruce Bairstow
Managing Director
0424 170 027
Mathew Bowden
Mathew Bowden
COO / Principal Engineer
0423 734 048
📧 info@formfill.com.au

🔒 Strictly confidential. We will respond within one business day.

✓ Thank you — we will be in touch within one business day.