Consumer and Retail

Design Partners joins PA

Award-winning product design and innovation agency
Embrace the conscious consumer

We can help you deliver the business case for sustainable growth and a healthier planet at rapid pace and scale
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Today’s consumers expect more and more – whether it’s new, personalised and sustainable products or the certainty of getting them exactly when and where they want. To keep up, manufacturers and retailers must innovate - non-stop. As businesses respond to the coronavirus pandemic, the need to innovate has never been greater.

At the moment, we’re helping clients develop antiviral packaging, accelerate production of goods in short supply and repurpose supply chains for those consumers in greatest need. This builds on the work we do every day with clients, to create new revenue streams, transform operations and build competitive advantage. Our capabilities extend from market insight and taking products from creative design through development and launch, to finding new ways to connect brands with consumers.

Our teams of researchers, designers, engineers and supply chain experts work with clients from start-ups to multinationals. They’re developing new products and digital experiences and adding new manufacturing technologies to improve operations. And they’re using digital technologies to transform supply chain performance.

We work alongside our clients from locations around the world and from the design studios, science labs and engineering workshops of our Global Innovation and Technology Centre in Cambridge, UK.

So whether you are trying to maintain business as usual or dealing specifically with current challenges, we help you to:

reinvent manufacturing and transform supply chains with new technology
design, develop and launch new products
cut time to market through more agile R&D
embrace data and digital technologies for better insight and control
make products and businesses more sustainable.

Our work with clients

Sustainability

Product design and development

Conscious Consumer

Supply network transformation

Connected consumer

Retail transformation

Personalisation

Our global innovation and technology centre

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Clients we’ve helped

The Ocean Race

Launching programme Horizon to make inclusion, equality and diversity a reality in sailing

Together with The Ocean Race, we worked to expose the lack of representation and outdated attitudes that work against gender equality across the sailing industry. With our expert support, The Ocean Race now has a blueprint to help transform the...

The San Francisco Marathon

Reclaiming and renewing the global identity of a much-loved sporting event

Public events like city marathons may have significant renown, but they often have small budgets. Race organisers use the prestige of these occasions, and the media coverage they attract, to appeal to big-name sponsors.

Rheia

Designing an innovative air distribution system to transform home building

The US is witnessing a residential building boom. As a result, builders are grappling with material shortages, cost increases and competition for skilled labor. Our innovation strategy and design team at Essential Design, part of PA, worked with...

Insights from our experts

Are global supply chain issues easing?

Insight / 4 August 2022

Shanton Wilcox, US manufacturing lead at PA Consulting, discusses global supply chain pressures.

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How the metaverse has changed manufacturing

Insight / 2 August 2022

CV Ramachandran, digital transformation and operations improvement expert at PA Consulting, explains how the metaverse might change the manufacturing sector.

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Managing supply chain cyber risk

Insight / 1 August 2022

PA Consulting’s US Manufacturing Lead Shanton Wilcox and Carl Nightingale, a Cyber Security Expert at PA Consulting, explain how to manage supply chain cyber security risks.

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UX design is key to creating privacy controls that unlock value

Insight / 27 July 2022

PA Consulting's Elisabeth Mackay and Elizabeth Garside consider the importance of user experience in designing privacy controls.

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