At a Glance

• Private equity is consolidating equipment dealers across categories. When three of your independent dealers become one sponsor-owned platform, your concentration math changes overnight.
• The risk does not show up in any single credit decision. It accumulates between credit decisions, in ownership changes you may never be told about.
• A rolled-up dealer is a different counterparty: centralized purchasing, harder rate negotiation, faster growth on leverage, and an exit clock that has nothing to do with your portfolio.
• Survey data shows most vendor programs do not track the ultimate ownership of their dealers, which means most cannot see the concentration forming.

The Concentration You Did Not Underwrite

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At a Glance

• On larger deals the decision-maker is a finance executive who evaluates an equipment purchase as a capital-structure question, not an equipment question.
• A short set of topics reliably earns finance attention: the cost of funding long-lived assets on a revolver, covenant headroom, balance-sheet treatment, and honest structure comparisons.
• Engaging a CFO means leading with the decision they own and conceding the cases where your answer is the wrong one.
• Survey data shows most CFOs involved in equipment decisions cannot recall any content from their eventual provider — the substance never reached them.

What a CFO Is Actually Deciding

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At a Glance

• The formal meeting often ratifies a decision that was already made informally. Professionals who only prepare for the formal meeting are working a version of the process that does not control outcomes.
• Access to the meeting after the meeting is not about seniority. It is about who is trusted to be in the room when the guard is down.
• The skill is not political maneuvering. It is recognizing where decisions actually happen and earning a place there honestly.
• Survey data shows most senior professionals say their most consequential decisions are made outside the formal meeting where they are nominally reviewed.

The Meeting That Decided Nothing

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At a Glance

• Every technology-driven asset class has a predictable obsolescence clock. Programs that ignore it surrender the most profitable transaction in the relationship: the replacement.
• A refresh program is not a discount. It is a contractual path from this machine to the next one, structured before end of term, that removes the customer’s reason to shop.
• The dealers who matter already know the refresh moment is where deals are won or lost. A funder without a refresh structure forces them to improvise or defect.
• Survey data shows most vendor programs have no contractual mechanism to finance the replacement of the equipment they originally funded.

The Clock You Already Know

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