After a total fire loss — rebuilding a manufacturer with incentives, permits, and a financing plan
A manufacturer lost its only plant to fire. Prosody secured state and local incentives to rebuild, ran the permitting, built the cash-flow model, and helped raise mezzanine financing to get the company back on its feet.
At a glance
A manufacturer lost its sole production facility to a total fire. Its CEO brought in Prosody Consulting to help the company recover — and Prosody’s role ran well past finding incentives. Prosody secured state and local programs to relocate, rebuild, and re-staff; managed the regulatory path back to operations; built the financial model to steer cash through the rebuild; and helped raise the financing to fund it.
“Since shortly after the fire we have relied on the expert services provided by the principals at Prosody Consulting … Prosody has been by my side as a valued and trusted advisor … Prosody should be your first call if you want to grow your business.” — Bobby Combs, CEO
The challenge
A total loss of the only plant is an existential event: the company has to relocate, rebuild, re-staff, navigate environmental and safety permitting, and keep cash flowing — all at once, under pressure. No single workstream solves it. The client needed a senior advisor who could hold several at the same time.
What Prosody did
Found recovery capital. Prosody identified and obtained numerous state and local incentives to help the owner relocate, rebuild, and re-staff the facility.
Cleared the regulatory path. Prosody managed the company’s state and federal air permitting, hazardous-waste treatment, and other regulatory processes — the approvals a manufacturer needs to operate again.
Built the financial visibility. Prosody developed a robust, dynamic financial model focused on cash-flow management, and assisted in restating two fiscal years of company financials.
Helped fund the rebuild. Prosody assisted in a successful effort to obtain alternative mezzanine financing.
The outcome
The company moved from a standing start after catastrophic loss toward being rebuilt, re-staffed, and financed — with incentives, permits, financial controls, and capital handled in parallel rather than in sequence. The CEO has continued to engage Prosody since.
Why it matters
The deepest test of an advisor isn’t a clean greenfield project — it’s a crisis with five problems at once. The value here was breadth and judgment under pressure: knowing which lever to pull first, and being able to pull several at the same time.
That is the standard Prosody brings to every project: find the capital that fits, solve the problems that are actually in the way, and stay until the work is done.
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