Retail

The retail world—with its razor-thin margins and relentless big bets on fashions, trends and timing—has never been a haven for the faint of heart. Add digital technology disruption, emerging market opportunities and changing consumer trends to put more variables in flux than ever before. Bain works alongside leading retailers to develop and implement customized solutions that address today's challenges and tomorrow's opportunities.

What we do
In the past 10 years, Bain has completed hundreds of projects globally to help retailers tackle their top strategic, operational, financial and organizational issues.

We offer expert services in the following areas:

Our clients include grocery chains, general merchandise stores, apparel retailers, convenience stores, drug chains, luxury retailers, restaurants, hotels, specialty retailers and e-tailers.
How we work

We help companies become more successful by identifying where and how to build the most value. We assist them in growing store networks, localizing assortments, building omni-channel capabilities, launching new formats or improving cost positions, to name a few.

Bain experts combine deep retail industry expertise with experience in all major regions and functional areas. They bring an external, practical perspective to industry challenges and opportunities using proven tools and rigorous, fact-based analysis. Our teams collaborate with clients to develop common objectives, define roles and responsibilities, propose recommendations and implement solutions.

Bain’s Private Equity group also has extensive experience in equity investments and in strategies for managing portfolios of businesses in the retail industry.

Our team

We work as an integrated part of your team, from frontline to C-suite, to deliver true results and make the changes stick. We have a core group of experienced senior consumer products focused experts that we can deploy across the globe.