Retail
The retail industry faces hurdles such as rapidly changing consumer behavior, digital transformation challenges, supply chain disruptions, and intense competition. Insights can offer insights on market dynamics, strategic financial planning, and operational streamlining. By utilizing data analytics, we can help retailers understand customer preferences, optimize inventory, and enhance digital strategies. Our expertise empowers retailers to drive growth, improve profitability, and navigate the evolving retail landscape.
HOW WE HELP CLIENTS
Retail Development
Helping clients in the retail sector improve development by providing strategic financial planning, operational efficiency solutions, and market insights.
Digital
Helping retail sector clients leverage data analytics to optimize industry practices, enhancing productivity and sustainability in the digital age.
Investment
Utilizing data analytics to guide retail sector investment decisions, optimizing returns and ensuring sustainable growth in the sector
Marketing & Sales
Helping clients by tailoring marketing and sales strategies, boosting reach and conversions in the retail sector.
Operations
Helping retail sector clients streamline operations, enhancing efficiency and reducing costs.
Organization
Helping clients refine organizational structures and processes, fostering better collaboration and effectiveness in the retail industry.
Strategy
Helping clients by informing and refining strategic planning, and positioning the retail industry for sustainable growth and innovation.
Transformation
Helping clients drive transformation initiatives, facilitating adaptive change and modernization in the retail sector.
HOW WE HELP CLIENTS
ACRE
ACRE combines proprietary market outlooks, pricing data, and expert insights to help food companies, governments, investors, and agriculture players make better pricing, crop selection, and sales and marketing decisions.
Agricultural Transformation
The McKinsey Center for Agricultural Transformation helps reduce poverty, improve climate resilience, create jobs, improve nutrition, and foster economic growth through successful agricultural transformations.
Natural Capital and Nature
Supporting clients in their transition to a net-zero and nature-positive economy.
WHAT WE DO
We advise clients across the agricultural value chain on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:
Investment opportunity identification
We have created a unique perspective on value-creation pools and investment opportunities in food and agriculture. We bring this perspective to our work with private-equity groups and financial investors—and to our work supporting industry players as they plan for strategic growth.
Raw-materials management
We help consumer-packaged-goods and processing companies improve performance within their raw-agricultural-materials procurement and risk-management functions.
Farm operations improvement
We help to improve agri-food systems around the world by bringing innovative thinking, multi-disciplinary expertise, a nuanced understanding of the private sector, and world-class analytics.
Fresh-food supply chain management
Rural development
We help national governments and development partners in emerging economies develop their agriculture sectors, and we work with donor agencies and foundations that support rural agriculture.