Food Manufacturing
About Us
We are boutique. We commit to our clients for long term.
We generate over 80% of our business through ongoing projects with long-lasting client relationships.
We serve clients globally and work with leading companies in North America and Europe.
We have deep industry experience in food and consumer goods industries.
We provide top-quality service to our clients with world-class consultants and consulting practices.
We offer our clients better responsiveness, the long-term dedication of our team, and high-quality advice with the direct involvement of our senior team in day-to-day work.
We commit to solving our clients’ most challenging problems, driving change, and capturing long-lasting commercial value with our food & consumer goods industry expertise, deep understanding of business dynamics, and our Analytics & AI capabilities under the leadership of our VG Analytics team.
We are committed to our clients’ success.
Capabilities
We craft solutions for your business.
Strategy
Our deep knowledge and expertise across different industries will be the pathfinder to provide end-to-end strategic consulting services across:
- Corporate Strategy
- Business Unit Strategy
- Portfolio Management
- Business Planning
Commercial Excellence
We have extensive experience on how to generate maximum value for our clients through:
- Marketing Strategy
- Product Strategy
- Customer Segmentation
- Customer Experience
- Customer Value Management
- Sales Strategy
- Distribution & Channel Strategy
Operational Excellence
We are committed to generate bankable value for our clients with:
- Supply Chain Optimization
- Process Improvement
- Procurement Optimization
Analytics & AI
We partner with you in every step of your Analytics & AI journey
- Analytics & AI Strategy Design
- Solution Implementation
- Foundation Development
Transformation
We have extensive experience in large scale transformation programs including:
- Operating Model Restructuring
- Turnaround Programs
- Cultural Transformation
- Change Management
- New Ways of Working
Organization & Agile
We help companies to transform their human capabilities through:
- Organizational Design and Governance
- Strategic Workforce Planning
- Performance Management Systems
Merger & Post-Merger Integration
We support our clients both on sell side and buy side for:
- Market Assessment
- Commercial Due Diligence
- Post-Merger Integration
Industries
We have deep expertise in 2 industries.
Impact
We conducted an in-depth assessment of our client’s businesses and collaborated extensively with their organization to create a comprehensive corporate strategy. Additionally, we designed a transformation program that facilitated the seamless execution of the strategy. Our team actively assisted the client in driving and implementing the transformation agenda.
Through our efforts, our client successfully improved its defined capability areas, which allowed them to achieve a competitive advantage in their respective market. Furthermore, our guidance enabled the client to exit some of their businesses in alignment with the newly developed strategy, thereby streamlining their operations and maximizing their profitability.
Our team was tasked with designing and implementing Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) and Sales and Operations Execution (S&OE) processes for three countries. Additionally, we created and executed an extensive change management program that involved training and onboarding over 250 team members.
Our approach improved visibility of the supply chain, which facilitated enhanced decision-making and operational efficiency. We successfully fostered a culture of collaboration across different functions, thereby creating a sustainable framework for future growth and development.
Our collaborative efforts resulted in a significant increase in profitability for the client and grew business with new accounts.
We began by developing a comprehensive fact base regarding our client’s sales function to diagnose areas of improvement. Subsequently, we designed and implemented the “Sales Excellence Program” to optimize customer interactions and sales performance. Our approach targeted the right customers and enabled sales representatives to have more productive customer visits while aligning their incentives with business objectives.
Our concerted efforts resulted in a remarkable 4%+ increase in top-line growth within six months, contributing significantly to the client’s overall profitability. Additionally, our strategy achieved a 12%+ improvement in operating income, demonstrating the effectiveness of our tailored approach. Overall, our Sales Excellence Program facilitated sustainable growth and helped position our client as a leading player in their respective market.
The client was struggling to receive a fair share of sales through the e-commerce channel. We were assigned the task of designing an Analytics & AI-driven digital product to boost sales. We identified the people, data, and technology requirements. Furthermore, we managed the change to integrate the target product into the existing systems and processes.
The client’s analytics team successfully launched MVP 1.0 that is well accepted by the executive team. As a result, they decided to expand this initiative to different markets.
We were tasked to identify how Analytics & AI can improve supply chain operations and enable client to capture value with utilizing Analytics & AI solutions in both physical and online channels.
We did an in-depth assessment of supply chain and identified Analytics & AI-driven solutions to enable improvement areas. We helped our client to prioritize solutions and develop necessary capabilities to fully capture the potential benefits.
We successfully improved collaboration among supply chain teams and enabled better overall performance.
Recent Articles
Food manufacturing has invested heavily in automation and “Industry 4.0” tooling, yet many plants still struggle to convert capability into reliable output. The underlying constraint is execution: small losses at shift handovers, micro-stops, changeover slippage, and delayed checks aggregate into material capacity leakage.
At the same time, operational fragility is being amplified by structural labor pressure (i.e., high vacancies and persistent churn), creating a widening gap between designed capacity and delivered capacity.
— JANUARY 12, 2026
Over the past twenty years, U.S. fruit consumption has declined, but the bigger shift has been in how Americans consume fruit. Eating patterns have shifted toward items that are fresher, less processed, and more aligned with health-oriented routines. The most notable change has been the sharp reduction in juice consumption. Since 2000, juice consumption has declined by 43%, significantly reducing the role of processed formats in overall fruit intake.
— JANUARY 6, 2026
In most plants, the conversation about performance starts with equipment and process. Leaders invest in faster lines, better changeovers, and tighter controls, and assume that people-related issues will sort themselves out if the process is strong enough. But through our work in dozens of facilities, we have seen the opposite pattern. The biggest swings in stability, output, and quality often come from how plants manage their people, not from the machines they run.
— DECEMBER 22, 2025
In food manufacturing, most plants leave 15–30% of their potential capacity, quality, and profit on the table, not because of bad equipment or bad people but because of how work is designed, executed, and refined.
— DECEMBER 11, 2025
Step inside almost any food manufacturing plant today, and you’ll hear familiar objectives echoing across the production floor: “We need to boost throughput, cut costs, scale faster.” Yet despite the drive and the investment, the numbers tell a harder truth: Manufacturing productivity in the U.S. has not kept up with that objectives.
— DECEMBER 11, 2025
The U.S. Food & Beverage retail market is undergoing a fundamental structural divergence between large incumbents, emerging “Small Brands” and Private Label (PL) offerings.
— NOVEMBER 27, 2025
The U.S.–China tariff war triggered one of the most profound realignments in global agricultural trade in decades.
— NOVEMBER 7, 2025
In a fast-paced environment, traditional planning approaches are proving to be inadequate. No-Touch Planning addresses the inefficiencies of traditional planning approaches.
— FEBRUARY 22, 2023
The feed industry stands at the threshold of a major shift, with insect-based sources emerging as a sustainable and efficient alternative to traditional protein and fat sources like soybean meal and fishmeal.
— FEBRUARY 2, 2024
The EU Deforestation Regulation poses a significant challenge to the European coffee industry, requiring a potential investment of a billion Euros in the supply chain – equivalent to 5% of EBITDA generated by European coffee firms.
— DECEMBER 14, 2023
Food companies may find themselves at a critical juncture, as overall calorie intake of US population is expected to be reduced by ~2.5% with the surge of GLP-1 drugs over the next decade.
— NOVEMBER 28, 2023
US foodservice distribution market is sizeable (~250-300B USD) and fragmented; recently evolving with changing preferences of foodservice operators and potential disruptors such as e-commerce players and large grocery wholesalers.
— MARCH 21, 2023
The alternative grains market in the US is expected to grow more than traditional grains. Pulses are the most promising growth area over the coming 5 years due to protein applications, especially pea protein.
— FEBRUARY 1, 2023
Many consumer goods companies are investing heavily to become more data-driven. It is not an easy journey, however, there are practical actions to accelerate it.
— OCTOBER 25, 2022
A digital S&OP and S&OE can bring much better long-term visibility, enables end-to-end dynamic business planning, and substantially increase the operational efficiency and effectiveness.
— SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
Value Gene Insight Conversations
Concise Podcasts Packed with Insights
Our insights now live as podcasts. Explore focused discussions on the real-world strategic and operational challenges facing the food and consumer goods industries. Drawing from our deep expertise, research, and hands-on experience, we break down complex topics, from commercial excellence to AI, into sharp, evidence-based conversations.
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