Food processing/manufacturing requires lean operations and manufacturing excellence, accurate cost accounting, focused understanding of customer and product profitability, understanding and strategic assessment of concentration risks presented by the composition of customers and product, and more, to achieve profitability in a value chain under constant margin compression. Our clients have sold their products into retail, ingredient, food service, and other end markets, including their own branded products, private label, and commodity products.
Our engagements have included profit improvement, turnaround, restructuring, and M&A advisory, including both healthy and distressed sell side advisory. We have assisted our clients in growing sales, reducing sales concentration risks through diversification, improving margins, including by developing and implementing disciplined cost accounting processes and customer and product profitability assessments, and optimizing procurement processes to acheive cost effciencies.