Business Due Diligence

Strategy Operations

IT Training

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

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

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

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