Industrial markets

ESG is integral in long-term value creation for industrial markets, our multidisciplinary teams can assist in navigating the relevant ESG priorities for your business to move forward in a meaningful and practical way. Our ESG specialists have the expertise to accelerate decarbonization plans and quantification, identify metrics for ESG reporting and auditing, and develop responsible and sustainable strategies, business models, operations and investments.

Our supply chain advisors can help manufacturers, automakers, and chemical companies transform their supply chains to become more transparent, resilient, responsive, and sustainable. Through Industry 4.0 tools and data-driven technologies, we assist our clients in strengthening supply chains to better identify and manage risks within inventory, logistics, and contracting on a global scale.

With frequent regulatory tax changes affecting industrial markets— from mandatory disclosure rules to customs and compliance changes with USMCA and Pillar Two global minimum tax rules—applying evolving rules to your business remains a serious challenge. We assist our clients in meeting compliance requirements while leveraging our extensive experience to enter new markets and develop tax strategy. In addition, we provide a variety of tax services to our industrial market clients, including:

• Tax planning
• Trade and customs support
• Tax credit support
• Research and development
  

Organizations within industrial markets must employ a multipronged approach to attract and retain skilled employees in today’s highly competitive labour market. Our People and Change specialists can support our clients with their talent strategy, change management, and inclusion, diversity, and equity (ID&E) strategy, particularly as the use of technology and AI change what businesses will need in the workforce of the future.

From robotics, 5G technology, to artificial intelligence, data collection and analytics, transitioning manufacturing operations from a traditional labour-based model to one that incorporates greater technology innovation is an individual journey for any organization. Our technology consulting specialists and alliances can help you build your digital strategy to enable your business to thrive and remain competitive in this quickly evolving landscape.

Our cyber security professionals can help to create a resilient and trusted digital ecosystem in an age where data is drastically increasing through the rise of smart factories, the Internet of Things (IoT), and interconnected technologies.

We’ve built one of the nation’s strongest Industrial Markets practices, comprising audit, tax, and advisory professionals who help clients navigate challenges and opportunities to generate value. Our specialists have a proven track record of supporting industrial market organizations in the implementation of their growth strategies throughout Canada, the U.S., and globally.

We have expertise in areas such as complex accounting, tax advisory, due diligence, M&A, transaction advisory, capital asset planning, supply chain, development feasibility, finance function transformation, cyber security, digital transformation, ESG, and people and change. And through our global network, we provide practical, industry-specific audit, tax, and advisory services.

KPMG in Canada combines the responsiveness of a small firm with the strategic perspective of a large global network to serve industrial market organizations. Our solid, multi-disciplined knowledge of industrial markets is the cornerstone of developing an efficient and cost-effective approach to the services we provide.

With an extensive Canadian, U.S., and global network, we’re able to bring the right people with the right specializations together to meet client needs. We understand the industry on local, national, and global levels, which is critical for large global companies with operations in Canada, as well as large Canadian companies with a global network. Our specialists not only understand the impact of market forces, but how these forces interact together.