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In challenging times consultants are used to speed up change processes and to coach top managers, projects and companies. But also for the development of new and innovative products, the creation of intelligent solutions for the end user and for the innovative combination of basic communication technologies professional consultants earn their fee. It is our objective to invent and deliver robust results to the re-orientation and improvement process at our customer’s organisations and to bring them forward towards a higher shareholder value by the implementation of better overall corporate performances! |
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Strategic Development: Re-orientation of companies and building up new businesses
Development of a diversification strategy „secure packaging concepts” for a security/banknote printer
Building up an international virtual net-work of press manufacturers and pre press suppliers to manufacture and sell an innovative „Flexo” in-line web for quality packaging in full board Searching of an Asian print partner for a German-American special interest book publisher Search for a publishing partner in Hong Kong for a German special interest book publisher Intense research of customer’s demand for a cross media and printing group with 180 employees to define a new, future oriented marketing and sales concept Initiation and moderation of take over talks between a commercial printer and a direct mail/digital printing company Search of a local joint venture partner for a new flexible packaging plant in China for a European packaging group Definition of a new corporate structure and very pragmatic solutions for the improvement of efficiency for a South East Asian security and mailing printer Structuring and moderation of M&A talks for a German newspaper publisher following the though consolidation mainstream in that market segment Development of a sustainable development strategy for an European regional newspaper targeting to a substantial reduction of operational cost for the own newspaper Concept for the co-operation of 3 regional newspapers in Germany and planning of a joint printing plant Strategic evaluation of a trans-national acquisition for a South East Asian group of companies Structuring and moderation of the take over of a Digital Printer by a commercial printing group Concept and implementation of a new „Graphic Cluster“ around Shanghai with an investment volume of up to 400 m $
Re-orientation of a Sri Lankan group of packaging and printing companies as a response to the changes in their main market of IT-industry solutions
Commissioned by a printing house we developed a concept to supply all newspaper advertising and promotion material for a IT component manufacturer to cover the trading channels in South East Asia and China Checking out the feasibility of a new combination of offset and digital printing for a company in the flyer and printed mass communication business Restructuring a digital printer by a totally new marketing and sales concept based on the offer of a very individual solution package for only 3 core customers Fund raising in private equity for an innovative technology approach in colour standardisation for digital printers developed in South East Asia Development of a diversification concept for a traditional commercial printer into high volume 4 colour digital transactional printing
Strengthen the focus of a print and media group onto their core competence by selling their wet label business to a specialised label printer
Critical evaluation of a commercial printer with 55 employees in preparation of M&A negotiations Search for a strategic partner for a continuous forms printer to support the diversification into new fields of business Structuring the negotiations and moderation of the due diligence (on the seller side) for the selling of a group of 4 printing companies Preparation of a co-ordinated chapter 11 evolution and moderating the corporate continuation after this stage for the company taking over Restructuring concept for the East German branch of German group of commercial web printing companies Financial restructuring of a larger packaging group by planning a „sale and lease back” procedure for the corporate real estate. Volume of the deals 50 m $ Restructuring and reorganisation of a production plant with over 1200 employees targeting to a substantial increase of productivity and the implementation of modern and effective management tools Reorientation of the corporate governance structure of a successful family group by implementing an outside and family independent board of directors and a new top management team Implementing a „zero base budgeting” approach at a local newspaper company to secure independence of the publishing sphere and long term economical survival Moderation and management of the process of take-over of a European packaging group by an overseas group
Coaching for the chairman of the board of a packaging group with more then 1350 employees
Improvement of productivity and waste of a newspaper company by the implementation of „kaizen” concepts and a stringent leadership of the internal project teams by our consultants Optimisation of the internal organisational processes and the production layout and logistic structures for a display company using the concept of „self steering teams” and linking the optimisation to the implementation of ISO 9000:2000 structures Coaching of the chairman of the board (representing the bank who held a majority stake) of a European media group with 1700 employees Search and socialisation of the plant manager for a quality printer with 24 printing units size IIIb (together with the deployment of new production management and production monitoring and control software) Coaching of the upper management level of a packaging group with plants in different European countries in overall process optimisation
Develop the list of requested performances, evaluation of the offered software, support the implementation phase of the new ERP system (including an innovative e-commerce sales channel, based on a customer driven pre press approach)
Execution of a cost cutting program in the editorial and ads department of a local newspaper External co-ordination and direct execution of a market communication program for a cross media house (included direct lead of the customer’s sales force for a certain period) Development of a new marketing concept to better utilise the 4 existing 48 p rotaries of a newspaper plant Optimisation of the strategic co-ordina-tion between the publishing and production interests of a regional media group (330.000 copies daily) in order to produce a more reader oriented and more actual newspaper
Evaluation of the professionalism of the top management of a web offset press operation and description of the competitiveness (ARGUS RatingCheck®) for the funding bank
Consulting a commercial printer in the evaluation of a take over candidate in the high end quality market Restructuring corporate planning and establishing a „family office” for the owners of a print and publishing group ARGUS RatingCheck® for the shareholders of a 6 line high volume web offset company showing the sustainability of corporate development and the technical risks of the present product portfolio Establishment of a status report about the „real” financial and strategic situation of a printer in a critical economic situation for the financing bank group
Implementation of a new ERP and MRP software at a group with 5 profit centres
Economical and technical restructuring of a printing house with 3 web offset press lines Implementation of a totally new costing schema based on „zero base budgeting” for a media house with over 200 m € turnover Planning the restructuring and refurbishing of an old city plant with over 20.000 m² optimising logistics and production by introduction of an automated material flows using AGVs (automatic guided man free vehicles) Re-organisation of order processing (sales, CRM, job preparation and „pre press page”) for a larger commercial printer Restructuring the international transfer pricing system for an international packaging group Total restructuring program for a complex production plant with over 1000 employees in a multi product/plastic card manufacturing company Integration of order processes and pre press processes in a (by us) restructured office building for a financial printer
Engineering of a new production line for the production of a daily special interest magazine using direct imaging in a web press (DICOWEB)
Elaboration of a new production concept for a South East European newspaper plant resulting in the investment of a 80 page single web width press in a four-high configuration Building up a global technology franchise for a totally new product in calibrating digital colour copiers and digital colour presses Coordinating the definition of a global technology franchise for an innovative production concept in flexo in-line web presses for short run packaging Checking (for the shareholders) the submitted investment plan of the management of a sheet fed offset company with 120 employees Feasibility study for a new printing plant with cold set and heat set presses for the production of over 10 billion 4c catalogue pages per year in Russia New production concept for a newspaper group comprising product improvement concepts, alternative configuration concepts, press specification, moderation of purchase and the new building concept. Total investment for the 5 presses with 136 printing couples: < 70 m € (excluding buildings) Innovative production concept for a digital printing plant with a daily capacity of over 2,5 m pages Concept for a joint CtP installation for 2 neighbouring printing plants Support of a counter plaint against a patent infringement suit of a packaging concept patent
Joint development with the sales force of the customer of a rfq for a special product with an annual production volume of more than 240m pages
Definition and active implementation and supervision of a new communication strategy (Direct mail, on-line and PR) for a cross media group Reorientating the Investor Communication concept of a public listed packaging group to reposition the company Direct support of the sales efforts of a commercial printing group through optimising the corporate design, writing a new direct mail campaign, implementing business intelligence approaches about potential customers, preparing dates for the representatives and closely monitoring and evaluating all sales and acquisition activities |
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