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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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.

Critical Strategic Issue: Brand Share Evolution

Critical Strategic Issue: Brand Share Evolution

 by:  Gary Karp  April 30, 2018      Recently, several articles have been published that indicate a renewed momentum in food retailing toward private label share growth. Generally speaking, whether in retail or...

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Independent Restaurants on a Bumpy Road

Independent Restaurants on a Bumpy Road

 by:  Bill Caskey | Barry Friends | Bob Goldin  January 11, 2018  For the past several years, independent restaurants have enjoyed considerable and hard- earned success and gained share. Many factors contributed to their...

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GPO Space Undergoing Major Consolidation

GPO Space Undergoing Major Consolidation

 by:  Gary Karp  October 18, 2017   Adding previous acquisitions HPSI and IPS Rebates with newly acquired Avendra raises Aramark’s GPO purchases to approximately $7-8 billion. However, while that $7-8 billion still trails...

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Flourishing in an “Amazon” World

Flourishing in an “Amazon” World

 by:  Barry Friends | Bob Goldin  September 11, 2017  Like many, we are in awe of Amazon’s strategic brilliance, executional superiority and customer connectivity. We view Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods as a master-stroke...

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Distributors’ Latest Results Are “Good News”

Distributors’ Latest Results Are “Good News”

    by:  Barry Friends | Bob Goldin August 17, 2017   Five publicly traded distributors – Sysco, US Foods, Performance Food Group (PFG), Chef’s Warehouse and United Natural Foods (UNFI) – do an estimated $85 billion in U.S. foodservice volume (UNFI is...

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