35 years in plastics.
On both sides of the deal.Plastics M&A advisory for North American companies under $35 million. Barry Curtis is the rare advisor who built his career in plants, led real operations, and actively reaches international buyers other firms never talk to.
Years Experience
Process Categories
Global Continents
P&L Managed
Barry Curtis
Owners planning a sale
Pre-sale assessments and sell-side process leadership for plastics businesses under $35 million.
Strategic buyers
Retained buy-side search to find unlisted targets before they become auction processes.
International entrants
North American market entry support for European and Asian manufacturers pursuing acquisition or partnership.
Connection
A focused advisory stack built around the decisions plastics owners and buyers actually face.
This is not broad consulting wrapped in M&A language. Each engagement is tied to a specific business outcome: getting ready to sell, running a sale process, finding an acquisition, or clarifying the next strategic move.
From $3,500
Monthly retainer + success fee
No auction. No competing bids.
Project or retainer based
Most plastics advisors work domestic buyer lists. Barry actively reaches international acquirers.
That changes the quality of a sell-side process and it changes the level of trust for an international buyer entering North America. Barry has worked inside Austrian, Japanese, and Singaporean companies and helped build manufacturing operations across four continents.
For sellers
Access to strategic buyers your domestic-only advisor may never reach.
For international buyers
Guidance from someone who understands the operating, commercial, and cultural realities behind a North American acquisition.
Barry sees strategy, buyer fit, plant reality, and integration risk in one conversation because he has lived all four.
Not a finance firm that learned plastics. A plastics operator who learned M&A.
Barry brings a plant-floor lens to every engagement: what machinery is really worth, where customer concentration creates risk, how international buyers think, and which growth narratives survive due diligence.
Operator lens
A buyer-quality review shaped by real P&L and plant leadership, not spreadsheet theory.
Strategic fit
Targeting buyers and targets based on customers, process capability, geography, and technology fit.
International reach
A differentiated path to European and Asian buyers evaluating North American production.
Direct access
Barry answers his own phone and stays involved through strategy, diligence, and post-close follow-through.
Two representative engagements with measurable outcomes.
The goal is not to sound impressive. The goal is to show the type of work Barry has already done in the exact operating environments this site is targeting.
Representative engagement
Gruber & Co. Group GmbH
Helped an Austrian plastics equipment company grow North American sales 10x in three years through strategy and partnerships, then executed a targeted US acquisition for market entry.
Representative engagement
Global Contract Manufacturer
Formed joint ventures in North America, South America, and Eastern Europe, from deal sourcing through post-close operational leadership.
Trust shows up fastest when the recommendations came from people who already worked with Barry.
A few representative references from operating, strategic, and transaction-focused work. Additional references are available on request.
“Barry is someone that I trust completely based upon his words alone which is a rare character trait to find today. He works diligently and with strong ethics to achieve mutual goals.”
Neil Whaley
CPI
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“I found Barry to be very knowledgeable and skilled at creating a strategic plan and implementing focus for our organization in the U.S.”
Peter Gattinger
President, Gruber & Co.
“Barry was instrumental in negotiating a merger of my company with another market leader from Europe. Barry helped us define and implement our new market strategy.”
Don Zoubek
Automated
“Barry is a high-level thinker, with thorough knowledge of markets, and most importantly what strategies are needed in different scenarios.”
Mark Bonifacio
Bonifacio Consulting