A private equity-owned beauty brand incubator needed help to implement process controls, optimize their inventory, and bring visibility to operations to rapidly triage working capital.
Growth Equity Today: Adapting Buyout Playbooks to Accelerate Performance
Growth equity firms today face extraordinary market characteristics. Hold periods have extended, many investments are ‘upside down,’ and fund IRRs, on average, have turned negative. Additionally, capital costs have increased, and raising capital has grown increasingly difficult.
A private equity-owned healthcare SaaS business needed a rapid assessment to understand current challenges, identify key opportunities for process optimization, and identify requirements to successfully scale the business.
A VC-backed digital production company needed help to quickly cut costs and demonstrate a path to growth and profitability without impacting its ability to deliver a strong customer experience.
A private equity-owned printing manufacturer needed help improving its operational performance and implementing a new Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning process.
A private equity-owned printing manufacturer needed help assessing its operating performance and identifying areas for improvement in equipment efficiency, planning & scheduling, and capacity realization.
A private equity-owned digital imaging equipment company needed to improve inventory management processes and deploy SIOP capabilities to quickly rationalize costs and scale the business.
A private equity-owned animal health company sought an approach that would unify and accelerate multi-product implementations and improve customer satisfaction.
2023 was a difficult market in many ways. Acquisitions and dollars invested along with exits and IPOs were down while capital under management continued to accumulate. As a result, the world for financial sponsors grew much more competitive, causing them to focus on building distinctive, proven competitive advantages – in raising capital, in finding deals, in exiting, and of course, in fundamental value creation.
