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      $90M CPG Manufacturer
Background
- 43-year history of developing leading fly-fishing equipment
 
- Recently purchases by an outdoor conglomerate
 
- Continued strong growth in its core product expanding to adjacent industries is a focus
 
 
Contributions
- Profitability cube was developed that checks inventory levels and profitability by SKU, customer profitability, discounts provided to customer and pricing
 
- Recommended an improved discount structures that limited the amount sales could arbitrarily give
 
- Found true profitability of customers and channels by building out pock margin by channel and customer
 
 
Results
- Identified over $1M of EBITDA by implementing a tiered discounting system, reallocating inefficient marketing spend, modified the wholesale pricing structure to promote volume
 
- $1M EBITDA improvement identified by reducing outlier SKUs, selectively raising prices on limited edition/seasonal runs, and implement bundled pricing strategies
 
- Identified a $2M EBTIDA benefit from implementing best-in-class SIOP process to avoid out-of-stock, implement core KPIs to be tracked monthly to hit targets, and rationalizing certain vendors