As businesses continue to evolve their value propositions across a challenging global landscape, CIL helps them look to the future, better capture their addressable market, and improve competitive advantages.

The industrial products & services sector covers a large share of global activity: from the manufacture of high-precision componentry to technical support services, data analytics, software solutions and supply chain management.

All these businesses face many challenges to successful growth. Driving innovation, optimization processes, integrating technology and cross-selling adjacencies all increase barriers to entry and enhance the defensibility of competitive advantage.

Our expertise Our global team have extensive experience advising both management teams and investors across the industrial landscape and its value chain. We have deep expertise across the following segments:

Energy transition: as the energy sector continues to evolve, we support businesses providing services into it to differentiate themselves from competitors, develop competitive advantage and maximise value.

ESG and circular economy: the circular economy is an emergent and growing industry. We support businesses across the value chain, from waste businesses to advisory firms, to navigate the changing landscape and deliver growth.

Utilities and infrastructure: a broad sub-sector in which we have significant experience, including highways, water, energy and telecoms.

IoT, automation and connectivity: technological advancements have aided significant growth in this sector, with our knowledge ranging from production line design to electronics manufacturing.

Testing, inspection, certification and compliance (TICC): compliance is a key theme in industrials; our work in the sector covers a broad range of businesses from outsourced quality assurance testing to compliance-driven data services.

Supply chain: the supply chain is a crucial component of most industrial services businesses, and our expertise spans the entire ecosystem. We advise businesses across compliance, advisory, optimisation, delivery, logistics, and warehousing, on growth opportunities and value creation.

Automotive and aerospace: we have a wealth of experience advising businesses operating within and serving these sectors, from precision engineering and digital technologies to specialist vehicles.

 
Our expertise Our global team have extensive experience advising both management teams and investors across the industrial landscape and its value chain. We have deep expertise across the following segments:

Energy transition: as the energy sector continues to evolve, we support businesses providing services into it to differentiate themselves from competitors, develop competitive advantage and maximise value.

ESG and circular economy: the circular economy is an emergent and growing industry. We support businesses across the value chain, from waste businesses to advisory firms, to navigate the changing landscape and deliver growth.

Utilities and infrastructure: a broad sub-sector in which we have significant experience, including highways, water, energy and telecoms.

IoT, automation and connectivity: technological advancements have aided significant growth in this sector, with our knowledge ranging from production line design to electronics manufacturing.

Testing, inspection, certification and compliance (TICC): compliance is a key theme in industrials; our work in the sector covers a broad range of businesses from outsourced quality assurance testing to compliance-driven data services.

Supply chain: the supply chain is a crucial component of most industrial services businesses, and our expertise spans the entire ecosystem. We advise businesses across compliance, advisory, optimisation, delivery, logistics, and warehousing, on growth opportunities and value creation.

Automotive and aerospace: we have a wealth of experience advising businesses operating within and serving these sectors, from precision engineering and digital technologies to specialist vehicles.

What we do We support a range of industrial businesses across the value chain in a number of ways, including:

International expansion: we help businesses internationalize their offering through market mapping, improving go-to-market strategies and assessing the relative strength of incumbents to inform possible acquisition strategies.

Market opportunity: we specialise in understanding niche market segments to deliver value for clients. This can be to better understand core markets or to identify adjacencies for expansion. These sectors often have limited data availability, so our bespoke market modelling can be hugely important for business planning.

Complex value chains: we are experts at navigating, unpicking and communicating highly complex business models in multi-dimensional markets to audiences that are not necessarily finance specialists.

Digital transformation: adopting and embedding technology can enable more profitable and scalable delivery. We help our clients identify and prioritise the digital solutions that will transform their organisations.

 
What we do We support a range of industrial businesses across the value chain in a number of ways, including:

International expansion: we help businesses internationalize their offering through market mapping, improving go-to-market strategies and assessing the relative strength of incumbents to inform possible acquisition strategies.

Market opportunity: we specialise in understanding niche market segments to deliver value for clients. This can be to better understand core markets or to identify adjacencies for expansion. These sectors often have limited data availability, so our bespoke market modelling can be hugely important for business planning.

Complex value chains: we are experts at navigating, unpicking and communicating highly complex business models in multi-dimensional markets to audiences that are not necessarily finance specialists.

Digital transformation: adopting and embedding technology can enable more profitable and scalable delivery. We help our clients identify and prioritise the digital solutions that will transform their organisations.

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Get in touch For more information contact:
Jon Whiteman
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Jon is CIL’s Managing Partner and leads its Industrial Products and Services practice.

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Tim Perera
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Tim is a Director at CIL, where he supports our Industrial Products and Services practice.
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Get in touch For more information contact:
Jon Whiteman
LinkedIn
Jon is CIL’s Managing Partner and leads its Industrial Products and Services practice.

Read more
Tim Perera
LinkedIn
Tim is a Director at CIL, where he supports our Industrial Products and Services practice.
Read more

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