Food and beverage
In the food and beverage sector, consumer behavior can shift rapidly, placing increased demands on your business and your people. Many new challenges have surfaced in the current marketplace, including food safety, sustainability, new definitions of healthy eating, the demand for locally sourced items, an aging population with changing needs, and the continued shift to private label. You must be prepared to react to these challenges and address the latest trends in order to optimize performance and achieve growth.
Grant Thornton assists domestic and international food and beverage companies throughout the supply chain in navigating the ever-changing and complex business environment. Our professionals are here to help you overcome your unique challenges and seize opportunities that lie ahead in this global marketplace. With vast experience in the food and beverage sector, our professionals will help you address your concerns head-on and achieve your objectives.
We work with a diverse range of businesses, from multinational food and beverage manufacturers to beverage distributors, grocery stores and restaurants, offering guidance on restructuring and reorganization, process improvement, supply chain management, M&A, tax, audit and other matters. We provide our clients with solutions designed to deliver growth and create value for their various stakeholders, including the most important stakeholders: their customers.
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Food and beverage executives serve up recipes for future growth
At the Atlanta Food and Beverage Forum held in the Fall of 2011, expert panelists addressed challenges and offered best practices for success in a volatile environment. Many perspectives were shared as industry panelists came from various types of food and beverage businesses. Attractive growth initiatives and future opportunities were discussed as well as obstacles to success.
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Stay plugged in with Grant Thornton podcasts
Listen as executive panelists from Grant Thornton’s 5th annual Food and Beverage Industry Forum in San Francisco discuss important trends and issues affecting the food and beverage industry in a series of five podcasts.
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Strong M&A activity in the food and beverage sector fuels growth
Grant Thornton’s latest Food & Beverage Industry Snapshot captures significant deal value increases and a substantial drop in coffee bean prices. Learn about these and other changes in the new report.
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Fast Facts on Food Processing: 2012 outlook
The food and beverage industry is showing encouraging signs as executives focus on gaining production efficiencies and improving business strategies to reach the most profitable consumers. The final survey of the 2011 Fast Facts on Food Processing series examines expectations for 2012 performance measures such as revenue, profits, costs, strategies and investments and compares these findings to past years’ results.
Culture Eats Strategy for Lunch: A Closer Look at Southern California's 2nd Annual Food and Beverage Industry Forum
Grant Thornton's Southern California practice hosted its 2nd Annual Food and Beverage Industry Forum in Irvine, CA on September 27, 2011. Nearly 100 food and beverage industry executives attended the firm’s dynamic event, which was themed “Culture.” The event featured keynote speaker, David Kim, former CEO of Irvine-based Baja Fresh Mexican Grill and star of a CBS’ Undercover Boss episode, who embodied the “American dream” as a Korean immigrant who worked hard and rose to the highest echelon of business
2013 Annual Manufacturing Trends Survey Report
Find out how food manufacturers plan to grow their businesses in the face of economic and industry uncertainty.
Is your anti-corruption program legitimate?
Find out what a proper anti-corruption program entails and how you can best protect your business from risk exposure through this brief video.
How are global food and beverage companies dealing with the latest trends?
Jim Menzies, Global Food and Beverage Industry leader, provides a snapshot on environmental concerns, health and well-being, high commodity prices, and merger and acquisitions activities.
Video: How can dynamic companies pursue successful growth through global market entry?
Learn about the special considerations and challenges facing companies pursuing international growth, and how these companies can achieve their strategic objectives.
Food for Thought
Industry executives discuss opportunities, challenges and strategies for growth at Grant Thornton's Annual Food and Beverage Forum.
Grocery Manufacturers Association
Grant Thornton is proud to be a member of the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA). GMA is an active advocate and a trusted source of information for the food and beverage industry.
