Consumer and manufacturing | PA Consulting

Consumers expect more — whether it's innovative, personalised, and sustainable products or exceptional digital experiences. They want them when, where and how they want them.

Successful consumer, retail and manufacturing companies innovate constantly to not just stay ahead, but to build a more sustainable future. They are creating new revenue streams, transforming operations, and building competitive advantage.

Our unique teams of strategists, designers, scientists, technologists, and engineers can help at every step of the journey. Making successful growth a reality for your business.

How will your organisation embrace a demand driven world?

Featured insight

Better growth, better future

Why should business leaders answer the call to build a more positive human future?

Consumer experiences

Creating richer, more personalised and connected consumer experiences that shape the future

Design for sustainability

Empowering sustainable innovation across products, packaging, and manufacturing to create new growth platforms, de-risk existing portfolios, advance sustainable solutions, and captivate consumers.

Design for wellness

Enabling category defining innovation across fitness, wellness, health, and performance to help people live happier and healthier lives

Waste: The commodity of the future

To maximise value from waste and move towards circularity, organisations can focus on three core pillars: reduce, recycle, and repurpose.

Dry Molded Fiber

The scalable and affordable alternative to single use plastics

Global Innovation and Technology Centre

Where we turn ideas into physical and digital reality.

Sub-sectors

Find new ways to connect with consumers and shape your next super brand.

Understand, define, and build impactful, strategic relationships with consumers.

Embrace disruption with new technologies, supply chains, and business models.

Expert views

We’re in the age of organisational agility. Whatever the disruption of the moment, the most successful organisations are the most agile.”

Tina Hjort-Ejlertsen Agile transformation

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Successful manufacturers constantly explore new business models, technologies and supply chains. They invest in new ways to improve production, increase sustainability and strip out cost, across the whole manufacturing ecosystem.”

Shanton Wilcox Supply chain and manufacturing

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The FMCGs that fully commit to true personalisation and understand the power of a holistic approach, embrace data and enable flexible manufacturing will be clear winners.”

Rhea Pattern Growth strategy, consumer and manufacturing

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Client stories

Hydrow Wave

Bringing an industry-leading rowing experience to the masses

Unilever

Predicting the spread of COVID-19 to safeguard Unilever’s global ecosystem

Pret A Manger

Accelerating a new digital customer experience in a disrupted market

Mondelēz International

Aiming for long-term net zero carbon goals by accelerating new products and technologies

Dizzie stackable nestable containers

Dizzie

Unlocking the reuse and refill potential of consumer packaging

Dizzie stackable nestable containers

A person holding a crate of avocados.

Avocados From Mexico

Becoming a US lifestyle phenomenon

A person holding a crate of avocados.

Danu Sports

Danu Sports

Unlocking athletic potential

Danu Sports

Logitech X Shroud

Logitech X Shroud

Creating a gaming mouse design that truly reflects the influence of a legend

Logitech X Shroud

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