Example 1
Client: Leading UK Retailer

Our client was a leading retailer looking to stay competitive in a deteriorating economic climate. Over the past few years, the combination of the rapid growth of new business areas, headcount creep and increasing complexity of the organisational structure had led to a working environment where it was more and more difficult for people to get things done. Find out how we used our proprietary benchmarking database and organisation design expertise to help our client identify significant savings and create an organisation design for their Head Office of the future.

 
Example 2
Client: A Leading UK Stores Group

Our client was a leading UK store group that had adopted an aggressive growth strategy, targeting increased productivity, margin and trading space. This had led to a more than 30% rise in central costs over two years. As the market began to soften, other retailers were systematically reducing costs and our client asked for support in identifying where they could remove costs without impacting the growth plans. Find out how we helped the Board to identify cost reduction opportunities of more than £10m.

Example 3
Client: A Leading UK Department Store

Our client had identified that its central costs as a percentage of sales were very high compared with its competitors and that buying and merchandising activities were overly complicated resulting in much time being wasted on non-value adding activities. We were asked to help them reduce complexity and thus costs. Find out how we helped them to transform their way of working and reduce buying time by 30%