FOOD INDUSTRY CONSULTANTS

Foodservice, retail and nontraditional food & beverage channels

Pentallect is a boutique food industry consulting firm specializing in business and strategic planning, M&A due diligence, go-to-market effectiveness and food distribution/supply chain optimization. The firm’s clients include manufacturers, distributors/wholesalers, restaurant and supermarket chains and private equity firms. Each Pentallect partner has a unique understanding and perspective of the challenges facing the various market channels and segments, as each have held executive positions with multi-category manufacturers, distributors and/or consultancies. Their EXPERIENCE-BASED thought leadership and pragmatic advice lead to improved sales and financial performance and company positioning.

INSIGHTS & SOLUTIONS FOR:

⌂ Improving Performance
⌂ Optimizing Results
⌂ Due Diligence

The Pentallect partners have years of PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE across various channels of the food industry. Manufacturers, distributors, investment firms, brokers, associations and others have relied on their pragmatic solutions, analysis and research to transform their businesses, expand their portfolios and improve their bottom line.

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Pentallect POV

The Pentallect partners’ personal executive experience, coupled with their reputation as provocative and outside-the-box thought leaders, have made their pragmatic advice, opinions and insights some of the most sought after in the food industry. The Pentallect team routinely appears on national network media and is  honored to be regularly quoted in leading industry publications.

Amazon.com as a Foodservice Titan: Not So Fast

Amazon.com as a Foodservice Titan: Not So Fast

    by:  Bob Goldin | Barry Friends February 4, 2019   We have the utmost respect for Amazon.com (Amazon).  Perhaps more than any company in the recent past, it has and is fundamentally reshaping how business is conducted.  No one can ignore their...

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The Labor Crisis: Now is The Time to Collaborate

The Labor Crisis: Now is The Time to Collaborate

    by:  Bob Goldin | Gary Karp | Rob Veidenheimer | Barry Friends January 11, 2019   Labor shortages are widespread and growing in severity.  They are causing major disruptions to business efficiency and costs to rise, in some cases fairly...

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Capitalize on Data Analytics

Capitalize on Data Analytics

    by:  Gary Karp November 28, 2018   A recent study by Pentallect, "Best Practices: Strategic Use of Data Analytics",  confirmed the need for continuous improvement in the use of data analytics and identified significant differences in how various...

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Food and Beverage Manufacturers: Stuck in Neutral

Food and Beverage Manufacturers: Stuck in Neutral

 by:  Rob Veidenheimer | Bob Goldin  November 13, 2018   Major food & beverage (F & B) manufacturers have been actively pursuing a number of strategic initiatives to accelerate sales and profit growth.  These...

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Foodservice GPO Business Model Morphing

Foodservice GPO Business Model Morphing

 by:  Gary Karp | Barry Friends  September 19, 2018   In the Pentallect POV published March 9, 2017, we highlighted the initiation of a foodservice Distributor GPO (DGPO) being started by UniPro, Unity Advantage Group, to enable...

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GPO Landscape Undergoes Significant Change

GPO Landscape Undergoes Significant Change

 by:  Gary Karp  August 8, 2018   In the Pentallect POV published October 18, 2017, we highlighted the purchase of Avendra by Aramark.  In that POV we mentioned many of the large foodservice GPOs and estimated Foodbuy GPO managed spend at...

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