Business Due Diligence

Why Business Due Diligence?
To analyze the retail business and assess:

• Core consumer proposition of the business format
• Generic format viability and long term business opportunity
• Specific business viability
• Performance benchmark against industry norms on business metrics
• Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) Analysis for the business
• Requirements in terms of funds, infrastructure, management bandwidth for sustaining and growing the business
• Priorities for improvement in the business
• Store portfolio in terms of location, performance and geographic reach
  Exit potential for investors

 

For Whom?
Business Due Diligence Service caters to the needs of:

• Retailers looking at growth through business acquisitions
• Private equity fund managers assessing investment opportunities
• Fund managers managing retail / CPG portfolio investments
• Credit rating agencies assessing and offering credit rating to retail businesses

 

How?
A series of activities are required to frame a strategy:

• Business plan review
• Executive interviews
• Industry segment analysis
• Competitive performance analysis
• Real estate portfolio and store performance analysis
• Assessment of existing / planned private label initiatives
• Customer franchise evaluation
• Assessment of human resources and acquisition and up-skilling practices
• Business competitive positioning and in-store execution analysis
• Business systems evaluation
• Management and organization assessment
• Financial modeling
• Custom research
• Analysis of strategic business practices in - Format Development and Roll-out, Product Management, Business Financing, Acquiring support services, Franchise management, Marketing etc.
• Analysis of company financial reports and accounts
• Macroeconomic research and statistics
• Assessment of press coverage
• Market Intelligence
• On-the-ground trading audit of company
• On-the-ground trading audit of competitors
• Interviews and analysis with the functional heads of the target company
• Benchmarking against repository of best practices with Integrated Retail
• Benchmark the sales trends and sales productivity performances of their stores
  

 

Why Integrated Retail?
Integrated Retail carries out Retail Business Due Diligence based on the following strengths:

• Large team with over 200 man-years of retail operations and business experience
• Exposure to diverse retail verticals
• Constantly updated repository of best business practices in retail from across the world
• Data bank of benchmark retail performance data
• Access to macroeconomic data impacting overall retail and consumer businesses

 

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