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Case Examples
MARKET ASSESSMENTS
Price discovery
Brief: As part of broader casework on certain traded goods, invited to identify trade prices in source countries, at intermediary wholesale locations and at recipient retail point of sale locations, looking across 12 countries.
Solution: Innovatively deployed resources to obtain and validate accurate pricing information. Tested the accuracy of the pricing model with traders. Identified the various ways the trade augmented profits and improved its working capital position - not just though price control.
Result: Successfully mapped and explained the current international price model and identified what would affect prices going forward.
Brief: Client wanted to adjust its pan-European pricing structure to respond to market changes and the increasing availability of grey market products.
Solution: Sampled prices from a wide range of vendors across the European Union and in countries physically adjacent to EU borders to establish baseline prices. Then explored price variations and differentials and tested and cross-referenced prices to identify price drivers, absolutely levels, headline vs. discount price levels and to determine the pool of errors that should be applied to each price statement.
Result: The sampling and analysis revealed good data consistency, enabling the client to adjust its pricing model.
Price discovery
Brief: As part of broader casework on certain traded goods, invited to identify trade prices in source countries, at intermediary wholesale locations and at recipient retail point of sale locations, looking across 12 countries.
Solution: Innovatively deployed resources to obtain and validate accurate pricing information. Tested the accuracy of the pricing model with traders. Identified the various ways the trade augmented profits and improved its working capital position -
Brief: Client wanted to adjust its pan-