Case study · Packaging · 6B USD, 30 countries

    A multi-year commercial excellence program across 30 countries

    A packaging leader with 6B USD sales and 23,000 employees moved from selling products to selling solutions, and needed to transform commercial capability worldwide.

    The challenge

    What the client faced

    A vertically integrated packaging leader moved from selling products to selling solutions, transforming R&D, marketing, sales and technical service.

    Our approach

    What we did

    A multi-year program: capability assessment against benchmarks, a tailored curriculum, applied learning and shared good practice tied to business objectives.

    1. 1Assessed sales and marketing capability against external benchmarks, then reassessed at intervals.
    2. 2Designed a sales and marketing curriculum to close priority gaps.
    3. 3Built capability through applied learning on live business objectives.
    4. 4Shared good practice across business units, tied to goals such as share of wallet at key accounts.

    Results

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    • [Result 3]

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    Why it matters now

    Moving from commodity to specialty

    This is the model behind today’s company marketing academies: assess, pilot, roll out and measure.

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