Case Study: Golden State Foods achieves global growth visibility with Planful

Golden State Foods Uses Planful to Manage Global Growth

Golden State Foods was growing rapidly through multiple acquisitions, including international deals, and its Excel-based FP&A process was becoming too manual and time-consuming to keep up. The company struggled with frequent formula and ownership-percentage updates, slow reconciliations, inconsistent reporting, and close-cycle overtime, making it difficult to analyze business changes efficiently.

Planful implemented an FP&A platform for Golden State Foods that streamlined modeling, reporting, and analysis across subsidiaries. With Planful, the team could handle acquisitions, FX analysis, and constant-currency reporting far more easily, cutting down on manual work and reducing the close process burden. The result was a more consistent enterprise-wide view of the business, with the customer noting that what would have been a “nightmare” in Excel became enjoyable in Planful.

Golden State Foods

Brad Tingey

Corporate Controller