industry
Manufacturing

Consumer products manufacturing firm needs new leadership and a plan to turn around operations​

Key metrics:
  • 20% improvement in labor efficiencies
  • Consolidated manufacturing facilities from 9 to 7
  • 20% inventory reduction​​​
Value levers pulled:
  • Interim CEO
  • Turnaround management
  • Performance improvement
  • Liquidity management
  • Lender relations

Picture this...

You’re a $300M US manufacturer of single-use plastic and aluminum food containers, cutlery, and straws, facing declining EBITDA after the loss of a key customer and deterioration in operations. You need to turn the company around, quickly.​

You turn to Accordion.

We serve as interim CEO for one year to assess and lead your management team through a turnaround plan focused on four key pillars: increase profitable sales, optimize the manufacturing footprint, improve plant efficiency, and advance organizational effectiveness. We accomplish this by:

  • Focusing on talent and culture, including replacing four of seven plant managers, recruiting two highly qualified veteran executives to head Sales and Marketing, and ultimately hiring a veteran CEO.
  • Developing a dynamic five-year financial projection and completing a bottoms-up revenue forecast by customer and product line.
  • Completing detailed assessments of strategic initiatives, including select plant consolidations, disposition of certain business units, debt refinancing, a first-ever measurement of demonstrated efficiencies, intensive evaluation of capacity constraints, footprint and tooling optimization analyses, and prioritization of required capital expenditures.
  • Leading the finance team through procedures to improve cash and vendor management during a challenging liquidity period.
  • Heading up negotiations with a senior lender and concurrently negotiating a significant equity investment from the existing shareholders and an amendment to the credit facility.

Your value is enhanced.

You get a top-notch management team, a 20% improvement in labor efficiencies, consolidation of two of your nine manufacturing facilities, and a 20% inventory reduction.

Enhanced value:

You reap multiple benefits, including:

  • ​​​20% improvement in labor efficiencies
  • Consolidated manufacturing facilities from 9 to 7
  • 20% inventory reduction