A F500 CPG company with 30+ global brands was ready for a substantial redesign of its Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process. For the last update—which took place nearly a decade earlier—the company engaged a traditional consulting firm. This time, the CFO hoped to keep…
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15 Case Studies Found:
Reviving a Legacy Brand – In An Unexpected Market
A Consumer Goods company had proven that a legacy brand offered measurable health benefits. How could the company steer the brand through regulatory pathways to make these claims commercially? What additional studies would be needed, and what changes in manufacturing were necessary for compliance? Health…
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Assessing Competitive Threats
A F500 CPG company had been slow to recognize the threat posed by smaller, nimbler competitors in several of its product categories. The Director of Global Insight was determined not to be caught off guard the next time around. Business Talent Group’s consumer insight specialist…
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Sizing a New Market
A multinational beverage company was eyeing a new category with a lot of buzz, but little data about global trends—or what success would look like. Business Talent Group delivered an experienced food and beverage growth strategist to map the landscape and formulate projections in each of…
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Optimizing the Manufacturing Footprint
A multinational beverage company had decided to close one of its manufacturing plants and move production to a lower-cost facility. Looking for a steady, neutral, and disciplined hand to create more detailed plans and execute the work, the head of the company’s project management office…
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Entering the Animal Nutrition Market
A food and beverage company was preparing to enter the animal nutrition market. The company’s strategy team had already reviewed market research and identified several product lines they thought would be a good fit. But they needed additional expertise to validate their thinking and fast-track…
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Getting Ahead of Supply Chain Disruptions
The board of a major consumer goods company wanted to explore the innovations that were most likely to disrupt its supply chain in the next ten years—from POS labeling to 3D printing—and where the top threats and opportunities lay. Business Talent Group put together a…
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Omnichannel Insights
A F500 cosmetics giant was trying to understand the benefits of better integrating its sales channels across its multiple categories and brands. Business Talent Group delivered an experienced retail consultant to size the opportunity. Working closely with the company’s VP of Customer Experience, the consultant…
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Refreshing Corporate Strategy
The VP of Strategy at a F100 packaged goods company was looking to refresh the organization’s biennial strategic plan. In the past, the client engaged traditional firms to do the work. Growing frustrated with the cost and the constant stream of junior consultants, however, he…
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Global Trends in Children’s Media
A children’s focused CPG company was shifting its business model to better capture opportunities in the entertainment and lifestyle spaces. The company’s strategy team had laid out a comprehensive plan for communicating and delivering on the new approach. But the Head of Marketing needed to…
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Fostering Innovation in Marketing
Innovation is critical to all companies, but each one does it differently. With this in mind—and frustrated by her team’s progress on a plan to present hundreds of new ideas to the CMO—the VP of Marketing Innovation at a F500 food and beverage company reached…
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Evaluating a Vertical Acquisition
The VP of Business Development at a lawn and garden company was contemplating an acquisition that would give it more control over a critical natural resource used in key products. Looking for a clearer picture of market context and dynamics—and how greater vertical integration might…
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Strategic Landscape for Snacks
The VP of Marketing at a global food giant was looking to grow market share in a snack category where competition had intensified. Might the introduction of a new product type help the company gain scale, and if so, what would it take to win?…
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ERP Redesign
The VP of strategy at one of a food and beverage giant’s best-loved brands had commissioned an enterprise resource planning (ERP) redesign. The goal of the redesign was to streamline a heavily customized system and simplify dozens of critical processes. Unfortunately, no one on the…
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Improving Organizational Agility
The VP of Transformation at a F500 consumer company was launching a major initiative to investigate organizational agility. What systems and resources would be needed to improve the execution of go-to-market strategies—and how would the corporate structure need to change? To help her lead this…