Consumer and Retail

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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A world-class technology development and product engineering design practice
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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

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...

TeakOrigin

Creating nutritional intelligence to enable better food buying decisions

TeakOrigin uses lab-grade spectrographic imaging combined with analytical chemistry and advanced machine-learning algorithms to measure the biochemical makeup of fruits and vegetables, without destroying items. Our digital experts partnered with...

Unilever

Predicting the spread of COVID-19 to safeguard Unilever’s global ecosystem

In 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated, Unilever – a leading fast-moving consumer goods company – needed to rapidly evolve their global operations. Unilever and PA created a world-leading digital tool, COVID-19 Awareness and Situational...

Insights from our experts

Four ways technology can help address the global food crisis

Insight / 5 April 2022

PA Consulting’s US Data and Analytics Lead Scott Schlesinger and Nigel Robinson, the UK Analytics Lead at PA, explain how technology can help address the global food crisis.

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How companies are hiding inflation without charging you more

Insight / 10 March 2022

PA Consulting packaging design expert Jamie Stone discusses packaging redesigns.

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Why is a circular economy good for packaging sustainability?

Insight / 1 March 2022

Jamie Stone, sustainable packaging design expert at PA Consulting, discusses the best practices for achieving a positive environmental impact when it comes to packaging.

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The three most beautiful words in science

Insight / 25 February 2022

Gerhard Pawelka, engineering expert at PA Consulting, discusses his engineering background and leadership style.

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