Page 1 of 2 Case Study: Food manufacturer & distributor The Company A company whose focus was in the manufacturing and distribution of food products, with recent private equity funding, had entered a company wide hyper growth phase with an intense expansion in the southern and western markets of the US. The company expects annual double digit growth as a hot new national brand distributed to the largest grocery, club warehouse and mass retailers in the United States. The Challenge Cost creep began to occur due to the hyper-growth environment compounded by a legacy distribution and plant network that was not designed for national distribution. The new and larger customers could not be competitively serviced through the current network of co- manufacturers n

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