Develop a success story in today’s VUCA* world.
*Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous
Just some of the things we do, to help you grow your food and drink business.
Hands on from the start.
Let’s start with your vision, ambition and mission.
It is a great place to begin with the end in mind, as this frames the size of your task and helps to set your goals and key milestones.
Maybe your aim is to run a company with family members, business partners and grow your dream team into a scaling company to be able to pass to the next generation, or to sell to fund your next adventure or retirement pot!
We equip you with simple yet pragmatic ways of working using tried and tested frameworks to ensure you add value to your business, whatever your legacy will be.
Insights to Strategy
Undertaking robust analysis and research into the external and internal perspectives to get to your SWOT and key themes.
Where to play
Knowing where you compete - geographies, categories, customer segments, channels, platforms - and fully understanding what this means to the business.
How to win
Defining the best value proposition putting you at a competitive advantage through the optimum configuration of resources, systems, structures, capabilities and activities.
Measure success
Understanding how you are doing through tracking reporting, and adjusting to get to your destination.
Strategy
(as a Service)
Whether you are looking to develop the strategic thinking of senior managers, or get us involved in helping with your strategic plans, our approach will focus upon the things that matter to you and your team.
Growth and Innovation
With a compelling vision around what is possible, we can help you achieve your mission to innovate and solve problems, harness creativity, break down barriers and activate the right people to realise your growth to plan - and often ahead of target.
Focus can be upon:
Improving EBITDA
Existing and New Product Development
Speed to market
Effective Marketing and Selling
Operational Efficiency
Rethinking is often the best way to transform a business, typically “tweaking” will only get you so far - and you’re probably there already. We can help coordinate the perfect team with to understand your needs, challenge the norms and achieve results.
We can look at:
Cost Optimisation
Supply Chain Excellence
Organisational Design and Effectiveness
Value Realisation and Turnaround
Leadership and Culture
An evolving culture can be a competitive advantage, we can help build adaptability, flexibility and agility fuelling growth mindsets and positive attitudes as a result. Strong leadership development enables change capability when it’s needed.
Ideas and solutions around:
Customer Centricity
Marketing Excellence
Manufacturing Excellence
Financial Excellence
Our solutions to your challenges
With experience spanning the food & drink value chain from end to end, we undertake many assignments - from one-off project delivery, to offering advisory and everyday support, as well as providing interim or part time leadership or management positions
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Our commercial approach brings you all the marketing skills you need plus experienced sales professionals to act as an extension of your team; bringing new routes to market, more distribution points and managing existing business whilst finding the next big win
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Our ability to build robust and resilient operations which deliver on your promises to your customers at pace and scale means we can seamlessly integrate with your organisation; we expertly lead change projects from inception to delivery with existing or new suppliers
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Our financial expertise means you whether you are raising capital, need on going management of your business, or looking for progression with budgeting and forecasting; we help you remain financially robust and stable
Identifying and prioritising the key market sectors right for you and your brand is key to success, and we use established networks within these sectors to help you reach the right buyers - to hit the shelves, tables or counters running
Grocery Retailers
Convenience Retailers
Farmshop and Deli
Wholesale
Food Service
E-commerce
