Contact: Martin Palmer

Email: martin_palmer@mlc.org.uk

Industry Strategy Consulting is the business / project consultancy arm of the Commercial Services Division. We specialise in undertaking consultancy projects within the food Industry, particularly the meat and livestock sector. Consultancy is carried out through the deployment of specialist multi-disciplinary project teams using experts from within the Group and a network of Associates within and outside of the Meat and Livestock Commission. Areas of expertise include:

1, Strategic Evaluation and Corporate Planning:

Industry Strategy provides a consultancy service to help firms in the food and related industries with Corporate and Strategic Management Planning. We also have a great deal of experience in strategic analysis at the regional, country and industry wide level.

2, Company Performance, Business Planning and Market Development:

We will evaluate your business and that of your competitors in order to provide you with the best solutions and work with you to develop sound strategic plans. This will allow you to effectively develop your business and maximise your potential to target specific issues such as:

• Pricing Policies.
• Promotional and Consumer Marketing initiatives (we can also help those in the meat industry to focus into the extra help available through MLC marketing activity).
• Feasibility Studies for Business and Market development.
• Business Planning.
• Market Research and Competitor Analysis.

3, Development of Supply Chain Systems:

We offer our services in this area by providing an understanding of sectoral structures, technology developments and regulations needed in order to successfully develop assured supply chain systems.

4, Economic Evaluation and Analysis:

A fundamental area of Industry Strategy Consulting expertise is the evaluation and analysis of economic issues and how they will affect a company, industry or the whole economy. In this area we have unrivalled access to information that the Economics section and other parts of the MLC has on the meat and livestock sector in particular.

5, Engineering Assessment and Design:

A sound knowledge of the engineering requirements to produce meat or meat products and the size of investment required is essential to the development of any project planning in the meat sector. We can help you with:

• Engineering assessment of meat plant facilities (EU compliant at HACCP standards)
• Design and planning for new facilities and installation of new equipment.
• Engineering costing and feasibility studies.

6, Project Planning and Evaluation:

When you are developing new opportunities, your success will depend mainly on your ability to develop projects to implement your ideas. We can provide help and advice on all areas of project evaluation and planning

7, Sourcing Project Funds:

When trying to identify sources of possible project funding, it is important to have as much information on potential grant opportunities about the areas about to be targeted. We can use our substantial knowledge and experience to assist you in the following areas:

• Obtaining EU and UK Government and local grants.
• Working with venture capital partners and business angels.
• Maximising private sources of finance.