PCF Consulting Group

PCF Focuses on Three Client Segments

Our clients typically fall into three main categories:

1.  Retailers who already market across established multiple channels

If you are an established multi-channel retailer, PCF can work with your team by helping to:

• Add bandwidth or narrow the focus of your multi-channel activities
• Design a multi-channel organizational structure that more appropriately and efficiently fits the scope of what you're trying to achieve
• Craft a realistic, highly-workable three year business plan
• Facilitate the discussion among your senior management team, by serving in the capacity of a channel-neutral advisor and advocate
  
• Conduct channel and site assessment
• Optimize revenues across your channels

2. Retailers who seek to market across multiple channels

If you are presently a mono-line retailer considering how to develop a multi-channel capability, we can provide business planning services that include:

• Defining key objectives
• Product strategies
• Marketing and sales planning
• Assessment of existing competencies (and what gaps must be filled)
• Site design
• Development of management processes and reporting
• Project management

3. Private Equity & Investment Firms

We can help you quickly identify ways to increase the value of your investment by:

• Building a 100-day action plan
• Conducting due diligence in multi-channel environments
• Defining and rationalizing the most promising growth opportunities & projects
• Suggesting ways to become more efficient
• Evaluating management -- and how it can be improved
• Assessing technical resources and recommending changes
• Reviewing existing holdings, then finding ways to ignite growth
• Assessing existing and prospective markets
• Identifying segmentation opportunities
• Serving on the boards of your multi-channel holdings

PCF has tackled multi-channel and on-line challenges for a number of diverse clients including:

- ChalkTalk Sports

- Charming Shoppes

- Daffy's

- Credit Suisse First Boston/DLJ

- Hard Rock Hotel & Casino

- IBM

- Brock Capital Group

- Prudential Financial 

- Burlington Coat Factory

- Ashley Stewart

- AC Moore

- GreenBrideGuide.com

- CUNA Mutual Group

- Tauck

- Archimedes