Retail and Consumer - Advisory Services

We provide a wide range of Advisory services to our Retail & Consumer goods clients, in an objective manner, to help them enhance stakeholder value, build trust and communicate with their marketplace.

Performance Improvement:
We partner with our clients to provide robust performance improvement solutions to complex business problems. Using our deep understanding of Finance, Risk Management and Human Resources, we help our clients identify and

  • Design and implementation of cost savings initiatives
  • Increasing operational effectiveness
  • Business process improvement and benchmarking
  • Supply chain optimisation
  • Business continuity planning and IT disaster recovery planning
  • IT governance and strategy
  • IT process improvement
  • Staff retention and training
  • Information security

Transactions
We provide comprehensive commercial, financial, economic and strategic advice to companies facing significant business growth opportunities. Our high levels of independence, coupled with a vast range of experience, have made us a key corporate adviser in the South African market and our position has been reinforced through the completion of key local and cross-border deals.

Our range of specialist advisory services across critical areas of corporate finance and transaction services includes:
  • Mergers & acquisitions
  • Strategic and valuation advice
  • Financial and tax due diligence
  • Sell-side due diligence
  • Vendor assistance
  • No-access due diligence
  • Bid support
  • Post-deal services.

Risk Advisory Services
In recent times, there has been a paradigm shift in many economies in the way that corporate governance, business ethics, risk management and compliance are approached. It is a shift that continues to be driven by demanding performance expectations, increasing stakeholder demands and growing public scrutiny after a number of spectacular corporate failures around the globe. We help our clients to envision, improve, operate and sustain a fundamental culture of business integrity and control. Our delivery is accomplished through a multi-disciplinary team who understand the frameworks available to provide assurance and/or advice in the areas of:
  • Regulatory compliance
  • Systems and process assurance
  • Data management
  • Governance and sustainability
  • Enterprise risk management
  • Internal auditing
  • Accounting litigation
  • Forensics investigations
  • Fraud prevention
  • Internal controls optimisation