Across Canada, we offer 250 retail and consumer professionals with experience serving companies in all areas of retail and consumer packaged goods — from mass merchandisers and specialty stores to manufacturers of alcoholic beverages, food, and health and beauty care.
This range of experience gives us a strong understanding of the issues retail and consumer companies are facing across the entire supply chain, from manufacturer to final consumer purchase.
Our professionals utilize their business, strategy and technology skills to provide retail and consumer companies with a broad range of business and financial services. We also use these skills when helping retail and consumer companies tackle some of the most challenging industry issues including:
Retail and Consumer Leader
Montréal
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Canadian consumers want convenience, choice and control when they shop. For that reason, and to deliver to constantly evolving expectations, retailers are looking for inspiration outside the retail environment, using emerging technologies like virtual reality, artificial intelligence (AI) and mobile-first initiatives and payments to better meet consumer demands and reinvent their shopping interactions.
Our survey of more than 1,000 Canadian respondents explores the main tech-enabled approaches retailers are using to give shoppers a superior customer experience.
Our survey of more than 1,000 Canadian respondents explores the main tech-enabled approaches retailers are using to give shoppers a superior customer experience.
In 2017, companies in the Consumer Markets sector faced one of the most competitive environments in decades, and as a result, deal activity continued to rise.
The pharmacy-retailing sector continues to be an area of M&A strength in Q3 2017, highlighted by Metro's acquisition of the Jean Coutu Group. We also observed healthy levels of M&A activity and strong valuations across the consumer products segment.
Disruptors are reshaping consumer behaviour and training swaths of consumers to view disruption as the new default setting. Be it Amazon, Netflix or Uber, disruptors have found the ideal combination of convenience, price, speed and variety that most appeals to consumers. Rather than simply responding to consumer preferences, organizations such as these anticipate and shape consumer behaviour.
Sonia Boisvert
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