Business Due Diligence

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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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