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WHAT WE DO

 

With our team’s broad strategic and operational roles, we’ve faced many of the same issues you are confronting today. This experience combined with our ability to “roll up our sleeves” and work alongside your executive and operating teams will help put you on a path to define and achieve your goals.  Whether you need assistance with financial and strategic advisory, mergers and acquisitions or route-to-market planning and execution, we’re here to partner with you.

 

OUR SERVICES

 
 

With decades of experience in roles including CEO, COO and CFO, we bring specific fine beverage industry acumen to our strategic advisory services, which include:

  • Determining your “Why”? What is your Blue Ocean?

  • Strategic and long range scenario planning.

  • Operational and financial modeling, assessment and recommendations.

  • Fractional CFO services.

  • CEO and CFO special project support.

  • Market and business intelligence assessment.

  • Succession planning.

  • Strategic sourcing of grapes, wines and production capabilities.

  • Value engineering and process/production optimization.

With extensive M&A experience across several decades, our best-in-class team of fine beverage professionals help provide a comprehensive perspective on strategic transactions.  By combining our deep operating experience in senior operating roles across the fine beverage industry with our in-house business intelligence capabilities, we are able to provide a unique depth and quality in all our advisory services.

  • Pre-acquisition business intelligence and due diligence services.

  • Buy-side advisory.

  • Sell-side advisory.

  • Post-acquisition business intelligence and due diligence services.

Our team has decades of experience making, marketing and selling wine across all key channels — wholesale, export and direct-to-consumer (“DTC”). Combined with our data and insights capabilities, we can set you on the right path to build a successful brand and business with services including:

  • Wholesale and DTC structure optimization.

  • Market, channel and account-based business intelligence.

  • Sales training and coaching.

  • Portfolio and pricing strategy evaluation and development.

  • Interim sales/marketing/DTC management.

  • Brand messaging and positioning.

  • New product costing and development.

  • Packaging efficiency and optimization.

 
 
 
 

OUR VALUES

Actions speak much louder than words. Below is what we try to live. If you share these values, chances are we will work well together.

Thoughtfulness | While you define your strategy, we will be mindful about how/if we can help.

Stewardship | We want to help make a positive impact on your land, brand and communities.

Collaboration | We will listen and work with you to help you achieve your goals.

Empathy & Transparency | We will do our best to understand your situation and share directly.

Hard Work & Humility | We love our work and hope you do too!