Customer:

German catering Start-Up delivering organic food for schools and kindergartens

Challenge:

Setting up a start-up company out of the investment fund’s portfolio in the area of ‘Organic-Food’

Key Questions:

• Which suppliers are following an organic approach along their whole value chain?
• What are the company’s financial needs concerning upcoming investments?
• What HR organization is best suitable?
• What is the pricing approach that should be followed?

Our Input:

• We evaluated the value chains of the start-ups suppliers
• We calculated a detailed business case as a basis proposal for a long-term financial plan
• We proposed an adapted HR-Concept with high self-responsibility for employees to enhance the employees’ cooperation, identification and social awareness.

Results:

Position was quit, when the investor pushed the company too much into fixed costs and scaled it faster in productions capabilities than sales could deliver customers.