Consumer & Retail

We provide services for the portfolio companies of many of the industry’s significant private equity firms, including platform services across multiple investments. Our deep relationships within the private equity community provide our clients with access to transaction expertise and potential capital. The face of retail and consumer products is changing fast, as today’s consumers opt for convenience, quality, speed, and personalization. Digital media and technological advancements are fueling competition and weakening customer loyalty.

Retail, consumer products & franchising group offers clients a powerful combination of people, products, technologies, and results oriented strategies to help clients meet their challenges and improve performance. To help retail, consumer products & franchising clients succeed, we provide more than assurance and tax services. We provide integrated solutions to help you stay in compliance, reduce costs, and capitalize on opportunities. Our dedicated industry team leverages our deep expertise to provide a full range of assurance, tax, and business advisory services to assist our clients with achieving their business goals. In addition to these services, Citrin Cooperman is well-versed in providing the below services specifically to consumer products and retail clients. Faced with changing consumer preferences, e-commerce expansion, and regulatory hurdles, retail business owners must find ways to innovate to keep up with the competition.

Specialized services for consumer operations

Offering a comprehensive suite of assurance, tax, technology and advisory services, BDO provides both strategic direction and execution to enable retailers to adapt, pivot and sustain growth. From liquidity issues to evolving customer preferences to the shift to sustainability, we can help. Consumer Products Achieving Full-Potential Modern Marketing Bain partners discuss the success consumer products companies have found in transforming their marketing strategies. To help today’s consumer goods and retail companies meet these challenges, PKF O’Connor Davies provides knowledge, insight and experience – all delivered by skilled specialists with a far-reaching understanding of the industry. As a result, our clients know that the critical decisions they must make to remain competitive are based on accurate assessments, up-to-the-minute information, realistic risk assessments and performance projections. Marcum works with clients to help develop solutions to significant business issues and manage the business risks specific to the manufacturing, distribution, and consumer products industries.

A powerful, data-driven solution that puts consumers at the heart of your growth strategy. Discover how the Bain Brand Accelerator can help you break free from a category view of the world, refocus on consumers’ needs, grow and nurture brands through multi-year value creation plans, and much more. The entities practicing under the PKF O’Connor Davies brand are independently owned and retail accounting are not liable for the services delivered by any other entity providing services under the PKF O’Connor Davies brand. Our use of the terms “our Firm,” “we,” “us” and similar terms denote the alternative practice structure of PKF O’Connor Davies LLP and PKF O’Connor Davies Advisory LLC. This trust and confidence allows us focus on our day-to-day business and do what we do best.

INSIGHTS

Our end to end solution will enable the flexibility you need to master this plurality of growth. The insights and services we provide help to create long-term value for clients, people and society, and to build trust in the capital markets. Our in-focus thought capital resource center provides insights on real-time, relevant, strategic, and tactical business issues and trends to help keep you in front of what’s happening in your industry and the market. Successfully reaching customers is essential for fashion and apparel brands. Understanding the impact of consumer behavior on your operations is critical to driving sales and ensuring healthy margins. Get practical analysis and concrete steps to make your supply chain nimbler and your data-driven insights more actionable.

A global pandemic, massive shifts in consumer behavior, supply chain shocks, and competition from new players are just some of the factors putting the brakes on growth. An intense focus on sustainability has consumers and companies at every stage of the value chain rethinking their habits, priorities and ways of doing business. For more than 50 years, our dental industry specialists have delivered unparalleled tax and consulting advice for every stage of a dentist’s career. Managing your caseload, office and staff is time-consuming enough – tap our expertise for help driving practice growth, improving efficiency and increasing overall profitability.

Tax, Audit and Comprehensive Advisory Services

From taking advantage of industry-specific tax opportunities to ensuring audit compliance with laws and regulations, our team of professionals have the in-depth knowledge to help your retail operations achieve its goals. In a rapidly changing marketplace, technology is transforming the competitive landscape in the retail and consumer products industry. Even companies that have been successful in the past with traditional operations need to keep pace with technological change in order to compete. Success depends on keeping up with changes in consumer buying behavior, managing supply chain volatility and continually launching new products in response to consumer demands. Companies in this sector need to be strategic at every turn in order to maximize efficiencies and increase profits.

• The current retail landscape presents challenges to both the retailer and their supplier, however with challenges to both the retailer and their supplier, however with challenges come opportunities.
• In this point of view, we explore the critical signals of change currently influencing the global retail environment and why the market is changing.
• Members of KPMG’s Consumer & Retail global network are dedicated to serving companies in the food and drink, consumer goods, luxury and retail sectors.
• A powerful, data-driven solution that puts consumers at the heart of your growth strategy.
• From televisions to building materials to beauty supplies and apparel, the businesses in the retail and consumer products industries are diverse, but they all turn to us for expert accounting and financial guidance.

In a marketplace unprecedented for its global reach and competition, our clients rely on us for help dealing with the full range of challenges that may arise. Marcum offers a powerful combination of people, products, technologies, and results-oriented strategies. That’s where our dedicated Consumer Products Group comes in to help you implement innovative strategies to improve profitability, create effective compliance policies, and negotiate and structure deals that benefit your business.

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Consumer products companies like yours face challenges on nearly every front, from state and local laws to international rules and industry-specific regulations. At Marcum, we understand that to adapt to changing consumer preferences and demands, you need to be agile, not weighed down. Constant disruption continues to test the Consumer & Retail industry—presenting new opportunities while challenging norms—faster than many companies can keep pace. As knowledgeable advisors to businesses in the retail sector, we provide critical business and advisory support that helps our clients overcome challenges and thrive.