Case Study: Global Consumer Goods Company boosts agility and cuts costs with AlixPartners

Global Consumer Goods Company - Customer Case Study

AlixPartners worked with a Global Consumer Goods Company’s European unit after the business began losing sales and market share, while also struggling with slow decision-making, high overhead, and an organization left unbalanced by prior cost cuts. The company’s sprawling structure, created through multiple acquisitions, had blurred roles, duplicated work, and weakened coordination across sales, marketing, and product management.

AlixPartners performed a deep-dive organizational analysis and helped implement more than 20 savings and restructuring initiatives over a one-year period. The solution included a leaner organizational design with fewer layers and wider spans of control, a shift to product-line-based operations, and a more focused sales structure organized by country clusters. The company identified up to €200 million in cost-saving opportunities and positioned itself to protect and improve €200 million in EBITDA.