Independent Brand Diagnostics & Advisory for FMCG and Retail
Commercial analysis and judgment for leadership teams, founders, and private equity sponsors on the strategic choices that decide what a brand is worth — and hands-on support to realise that value.
We give brand owners and their leadership teams clarity on which strategic paths remain open, before they commit.
Ahead of setting your strategy and annual operating plan, we recommend a full brand diagnostic and a Brand Clarity workshop to confirm your brand is on the right trajectory.
A written verdict on where your brand is heading, built on your data and the market evidence. Delivered before next year's plan commits the budget, or ahead of a transaction.
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Brand Diagnostics
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Brand Clarity™ Workshop
A facilitated in-house workshop with your full leadership team, worked against the diagnostic evidence. The team leaves committed to one strategic path and clear on what to stop funding.
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Advisory
Retained advice that carries the chosen path into the operating plan and stays with the business through execution. Where the gap is leadership capacity, we provide interim executive cover.
Brand Diagnostics Reports
Each report examines what drove an FMCG, Food & Beverage, or Retail brand to failure, pivot, or liquidity event — and, where the brand survives, what strategic paths are still available. The reports offer brand owners and investors external benchmarks for their own brands’ path.
FORENSIC
King Bloom was early to UK ready-to-drink cocktails, launching in 2015. The report examines why being early to a category that boomed was not enough to keep the brand alive.
FORENSIC
KP Nacho’s — Ireland
Created to give a joint-venture distributor innovation for a declining snacks portfolio, KP Nacho’s went up against Doritos’ near-monopoly in Ireland. The report traces how that origin shaped its failure.
OUTLOOK
Nix & Kix — UK
A crowd-backed soft drink challenger that ran out of road in 2025 and survived through a pre-pack. The report traces the failure and tests what the new owners can still build.
Integrity is fundamental to our work.
Principal-led throughout
Every mandate is led by a principal from the first call to the final recommendation.
Evidence-based judgment
The brand's commercial data, shared under NDA, typically panel data, retail measurement, gross-to-net by customer, and cost-to-serve by channel, plus public and syndicated sources. Data below the evidence standard is not used, and any gap is stated in the report as a finding.
Where a mandate requires a specialist capability, the team is named before the work begins. Nothing is subcontracted without the client knowing who is doing the work.
Specialists disclosed
Independent from the outcome
We are not affiliated with any agency, private equity fund, or consultancy group—and therefore impartial. We take no fee from anyone other than the client.
STRATEGIC BRIEFINGS
Discover what determines a brand’s success or failure.
Short, sharp reads on how consumer brands grow, stall, and exit, and what the pattern says about where the value sits.
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