Consumer and manufacturing

Dunnet Bay Distillers wanted to reduce its environmental footprint as it grew its business. PA Consulting helped develop recyclable spirits packaging that eradicates the need to use a single use bottle and also reduces costs.

It’s time to get serious about sustainability – to unlock trillions of pounds worth of commercial opportunities and create a positive human future. As the perception of plastic has shifted from a wonder material to a public scourge, the forces of opportunity present leaders with a chance to drive positive societal change that makes business sense.

Our design team worked with The San Francisco Marathon to develop a visual identity to attract sponsors and participants.

Around the world, COVID-19 has transformed society on so many levels, forcing consumers to respond to social, political, economic, professional and personal changes in real-time. Organisations must rapidly address evolving consumer behaviours. Our consumer insight team saw an opportunity to quickly launch a research project to explore these changes in the UK. To date, this research has provided insights into over 10 industry verticals and horizontal topics, helping brands evolve products and services to meet emerging consumer needs.

We've helped John Lewis keep pace with what customers want. We started with one of the largest digital projects in the company’s history: delivering a new e-commerce platform that has handled unprecedented increases in website traffic and supported record-breaking sales.

Online search is critical for people researching and deciding their next moves. But while search engines produce results quickly, they only answer the questions that users ask and they’re influenced by previous searches. Working with a leading global drinks company, we’ve developed a new kind of artificial intelligence (AI) search tool, named Dark Matter, that goes a step further by also answering questions users didn’t know they could ask – but that could unlock valuable opportunities.

UBQ Materials Ltd, a B-Corp start-up headquartered in Israel, is tackling the growing global problem of landfill waste. The company has found a way to transform residential municipal solid waste into a biomass-based thermoplastic material.

We created a brand strategy for Wildtype, a start-up developing clean, cell-based protein, as it prepares to take its first product, cell-based salmon, to market.

PA has created a 100 per cent plastic-free, sustainable and home compostable tea sheet, reducing the estimated 6.5 million kilograms of tea bag plastic disposed of each year in the UK

We helped leading global spirits company, Brown-Forman, refine and modernise the core visual brand elements for its premium whiskey brand, Woodford Reserve.