Overview

KPMG's Consumer & Retail practice offers a global network of approximately 2,000 partners and managers. By serving clients worldwide, we develop insights into major business trends and share these among our professionals serving other clients with similar needs.

To every assignment we bring extensive industry-experience and specific capabilities. Our core services include financial services, improving performance and managing costs, managing risk, structuring the business, managing your workforce, and dealing with government regulation. However, with pressure to improve margins, convert market and customer information into sales, improve efficiency and harness technology to add value and strategic advantage are non-stop challenges in today's competitive consumer marketplace.

Our Consumer & Retail practice covers the following industry sectors:

• Consumer Products
• Retail
  
• Food & Drink
  

How can we help?

KPMG works with manufacturers and processors, importers, distributors and wholesalers, commodity traders and retailers of all kinds. Clients draw on our professional advice and technical resources to augment their internal capabilities and to obtain a fresh, independent perspective on important strategic and operational issues.

We offer a comprehensive suite of audit, tax and advisory services including assistance or advice on:

• Recommend tax efficient operating and holding structures, advising on permanent establishment issues, funding options, profit repatriation and exit strategies and the utilization of tax losses
• Review of IT systems (including inventory management, point-of-sale, payroll and financials)
• Supply chain process improvement and terms-of-trade policy
• Pre-deal evaluations, acquisitions and disposal due diligence through to merger and acquisition integration
• Fraud prevention and shrinkage reduction strategies, and dispute resolution
• Corporate governance, revenue assurance and environmental reporting
• Tax compliance, R&D concessions, GST compliance and import duty concessions
• Financial and management accounting
• Consumer demographics and their industry specific implications