Industry: Luxury Fragrance and Personal Care
Turnover: $40m to $80m+
Ownership: Privately-held
Project Trigger
The founders sought an independent strategic review to clarify the long-term value potential of the business, realign shareholder expectations, and establish a clear roadmap for growth, capability investment, and organisational structure.
Approach
The consulting team undertook a multi-phase strategic review to understand the company’s commercial performance, operational maturity, and the scalability of its global model. This included interviews with senior leaders, an assessment of sales, marketing, operations, finance, and data capabilities, and a review of market performance across regions.
Insights from this phase were used to shape a unified strategy to action program, incorporating global market prioritisation, organisational design, supply chain alignment, and a scalable data and reporting framework. The consultants then facilitated planning workshops to define strategic initiatives, clarify accountability, and prepare for integration of the strategy into long term financial forecasts.
Outcomes
The engagement produced a clearly articulated long-term strategy, and an integrated set of execution plans to support growth across key markets such as the USA, China, and the UK. The business gained a structured operating model with defined customer and channel strategies, improved visibility of profitability drivers, and a roadmap for maturing its data, reporting, and S&OP processes.
The work also established organisational clarity, including role definitions, recruitment priorities, and the transition toward more stable internal capability. Combined, these outcomes repositioned the business for sustainable, scalable growth supported by informed financial assumptions and an aligned leadership team.
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