Margin is slipping, and nobody can say exactly where
We trace cost and price through buying, ranging, warehousing and distribution, and size what is recoverable before you commit to anything.
Advisory and consultancy for businesses that move physical goods
Operations that work.
We find the cost and margin hiding in how you buy, store and move goods, and we stay to help you take it out.
Polished · new
Fresh thinking
New tools, including AI, tested against your data before anyone asks you to buy them.
Copper · proven
Proven in practice
Methods refined over decades inside retailers, suppliers and distributors.
Verdigris · lasting
Built to last
Changes handed to your people with the tracking to protect the gain for years.
Where we help
Problems we are often asked to solve
Warehouse and logistics costs keep rising
With specialist partners we benchmark your operation site by site and redesign the work, not only renegotiate the rates (we can do that too).
You should be using AI, but it isn't clear how
We find the signals in the noise that pay back and help your team adopt them, without fuss or drama.
How we work
Analysis before polish, and help to make it happen
- 01Diagnose
Your data, your sites, your people. Where the money goes, sized.
- 02Design
Options costed, one recommended, owners agreed.
- 03Deliver
Changes made alongside your team and measured every week.
- 04Embed
Handed over to named owners, with the tracking in place.
We only start work that will be implemented. If the conditions for success aren't in place, we pause rather than bill.
Read how we workBuilt by practitioners
We have run the operations and built the data platforms we advise on
2000Our founders have launched, operated and exited multiple businesses serving the retail and CPG sectors since 2000.
25+Years of running operations and building data platforms for retailers and their suppliers.
200+Customers served by our founders' previous businesses, Ivo Consulting Solutions and Atheon Analytics, most of them retailers and the brands that supply them.
Our founders' clients have included Asda, BT, Co-op, easyJet, Greggs, Kraft Heinz, Marks & Spencer, Morrisons, New Look, Procter & Gamble, Unilever and many more.
What's on your mind?
A 30-minute call with one of the directors. No pitch deck, no obligation.