Industrials Commercial Due Diligence

Sector-specific CDD additions to the generic spine.

§ DIRECT ANSWER

Industrials Commercial Due Diligence: where the sector diverges from the generic spine, sourced to UK primary data.

Industrials CDD leans heavily on chapter IV (operations): capacity utilisation, take-or-pay contracts, customer concentration. UK manufacturing capacity data via ONS Manufacturing and Production.

§ 1.1Chapter IV additions

Capacity utilisation by plant
Throughput / OEE
Take-or-pay contract schedule
Top-10 customer concentration

§ 1.2Red flags

Customer concentration >40% on a single counterparty is conventional deal-killer territory absent a long-dated take-or-pay.

VERIFIED 21 JUN 2026NEXT REVIEW 21 SEP 2026SRC: ICAEW CF; BVCA Industry Activity 2025-26