事業後継者　Successor of business

昨日、友人の元会社社長が突然、事務所に来られました。事業後継者がなく、他社への事業引き継ぎを終えた後でかつての取引会社にあいさつ回りをされているとのこと。幸いにも信用力のある良い会社に事業を譲渡できたとのことでした。不景気のために多くの倒産がある中で幸運とも言えます。始めるのは簡単？ですが、終え方は難しい。
Yesterday a former company president, a friend of mine, suddenly came to my office on his way to give his word of last greeting to the companies he did his business with. With no his business successor, he had to sell and transfer his business to another company. But he should be lucky in a sense to have transferred his business to another good company successfully amid the many recent bankruptcies because of business slump. It is easy? to start, but not to finish.