Business Case Studies

Supporting a Scaling FinTech

The ChallengeOur client is a rapidly scaling FinTech challenger brand, with a team of around 150 people. While experiencing high growth, the firm needed to build out its operations team with a particular focus on the customer support capacity.The nature of our client’s products, and the complexit...

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Finding a Chief of Staff for a care home business

Freshminds’ Search team was asked by a mid-market Private Equity firm to work with one of their portfolio companies, which was going through a full management restructure.The company, a care home business, was originally family-owned and had been under Private Equity ownership for around five yea...

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Linking Technology Partners

Developing partnerships in techIn the rapidly evolving landscape of the technology sector, partnerships have emerged as a critical strategy for growth and innovation.The challenges posed by the digital age can be very complex and require specialist knowledge of discrete and rapidly changing area...

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Research Study: Global Philanthropy

BackgroundOur client is a Family Foundation based in Singapore dedicated to effective philanthropy. Headed up by its Founder, the organisation invests in two broad areas, childhood literacy and vision correction. Its mission is to seek to ensure that everyone in the world can achieve better eyes...

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Building a Transformation Office

The requirementOur client is a FTSE 250 business who recently brought in a new CEO and Chief Strategy & Transformation Officer. It is one of the country’s leading transport firms, with a mission and public commitment to decarbonise its fleet by 2035. The business had decided to invest in a...

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Networking Organisation Invests in Graduate Talent to Supercharge a Better Future

The RequirementOur client, a community-focused organisation, specialises in social, economic and environmental impact projects. Their aim is to create an environment where change-makers, investors, and other interesting people can meet and collaborate towards a better world. With the aim of becom...

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A 3-year Strategy Plan for an International DTC Retail Business

The Requirement Our client is a leading European direct to consumer (DTC) retail business, focused on health and nutrition. It employs over 6000 people internationally, and products are sold or distributed in over 130 countries.One of the divisions within the business required an eComm transform...

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Establishing an AI-driven Insight Platform to Inform Product Roadmap

The contextFreshminds undertook a research programme for our client, which provided key insights into how different industry players were using tech and AI. The project showed that there isn't a consistent way of using AI as companies are all in various stages of maturity with regards to their te...

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Growing the Head Office of a Leading Travel Company

The requirementOur client, a leading tech travel company, saw huge potential in their market after COVID and wanted to ensure they were well-positioned for exponential growth.Freshminds was initially referred to our client via their Private Equity backer to help the CEO find an impressive and imp...

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Building a UK Office for a Newly-Acquired European Consulting Firm

The requirementAfter successfully completing a piece of work for one of our long-running, top-tier consulting clients, Freshminds was introduced to the senior management team of a business that they had recently acquired at the end of 2021.Highly regarded and well-established in their domestic ma...

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Scoping Exercise for Pet Food Retailer to Fuel Growth into new Market

Search - Offer - Project completion: 4 weeksThe requirementFreshminds was briefed at the end of 2019 by a leading B2C retailer with an annual revenue of $100million. Our client was looking for new market opportunities to grow the business for an all-equity acquisition to be made viable. One marke...

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PE-Owned Global Exhibitions Company Needs Support Exploring the US Medical Market

Search – Offer – Start: 6 weeksOur ClientOur client creates world-class B2B exhibitions and trade shows. Bought by a mid-market PE firm in 2019, in early 2021, they were outlining a strategy for rapid post-pandemic growth in the US. The plan was to build on a strong track record of healthcare con...

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Supporting Growth through Key Management Hires in a Healthcare Business

Our ClientOur client operates in the field of health and social care. The Chair and Co-Founder were in a position to optimise and grow the business, following on from significant investment from a family office and post-Covid environment. In addition, the business had made three acquisitions in A...

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HR Transformation Project Management Support for a Sustainable Growth Plan

The senior partner within a consulting firm was seconded to a global logistics operator with the aim of leading the company through a large-scale transformation program. After a successful restructuring, the business needed significant change to set it on a sustainable growth path that would ens...

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New Strategic Vision and Steering a Critical Transformation

Our client is a boutique firm investing in emerging markets. In early 2019 they began an ambitious journey to aggressively grow their assets under management. Major changes to core business operations would be involved and we were initially approached to connect a senior leader who could steer a ...

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Formation of a Leading Player in European B2B SaaS

After supporting our client on a number of pre-diligence B2B tech projects, we were approached to undertake a full CDD on a proposed key investment in the European B2B SaaS space. An acquisition was recommended which went ahead and we have since partnered on the deal research for successful follo...

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Greenhill Investment Bank: Long-Term Internship Scheme Management

The Summer Internship is the primary talent pipeline for Greenhill’s Graduate Analyst Programme. As such, the scheme underpins all of the bank’s early career hiring in the UK. Freshminds was initially approached to deliver the Summer Internship in 2013 and we have been a trusted partner ever sinc...

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Deal Research: Origination and Development of New M&A Strategy

Having successfully supported a range of deal research projects for our client, we were engaged at an early stage in the development of their new M&A strategy. The initial remit was broad: investments that would expand our client’s talent pool, client reach, service offering and / or footprin...

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Fully Outsourced Management of Summer internship & Graduate Analyst Schemes

In 2018, Torch Partners were looking to refine and restructure their approach to early-career hiring, with the aim of building a strong core of analyst talent at the heart of their business. Having advised initially on process redesign, we successfully delivered both their summer internship and g...

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A Virtual Bench To Support A Top-Tier Consulting Firm

A leading global consulting firm which has partnered with Freshminds for several years engaged the consulting projects team to develop a virtual bench of interim consultants to help drive their project delivery through an ongoing period of fluctuating demand. Key ChallengesWith project pipelines ...

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Creating a Digital Transformation Consulting Team

Freshminds have provided ongoing strategy and operational support to a leading UK and European property investment and development company for the past two years to deliver end-to-end digital transformation initiatives across their energy and logistics businesses. Key ChallengesOur client require...

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Executive hire for Private Equity Investment going international

Our client had recently received Private Equity investment and was looking to expand internationally. Initially a UK based construction platform covering the design, supply and construction of the built environment needed a recruitment partner to map out the Canadian market and find them their Co...

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World's largest bakery seeks new strategic insight function

Freshminds was brought in to help Aryzta AG - one of the world’s largest frozen bakeries - find two Strategy Consultants, creating a new Strategy Insight function to empower their regions with data-driven, strategic insight for the first time.The brand was large but relatively unknown, especially...

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Due diligence project management for leading private equity firm

Working closely with one of the biggest private equity firms in the UK, our client urgently needed to carry out due diligence on a prospective company for a potential acquisition.BackgroundThey wanted to conduct over 100 interviews with customers of the company and their respective competitors to...

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Leading tech business struggles to recruit at their rate of growth

Our client was growing extremely fast as competitors started increasing their rates dramatically. Providing renewable energy at a low, fixed price, coupled with excellent customer service, the firm were struggling to recruit at their rate of growth. To manage the demand, the business needed to hi...

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Racing ahead: 1 top graduate strategist in 12 days for international automotive dealer

Our client came to Freshminds with a year long strategy project which they’d been struggling to fill internally due to a lack of resources and strict timelines. Working closely with the Head of Strategy and the rest of the senior management team, this was a key role to fill, and they were looking...

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Technology giant wanted to grow out their digital supply chain using a partnership programme

BackgroundOne of the biggest technology giants wanted to grow out their digital supply chain using a partnership programme. Through this programme, partners would be trained with the clients’ technology, allowing them to enhance their product offering, growing their revenue streams and in turn, t...

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Speaking the language: Spanish & Italian speaking researchers for Support Services consultancy

Our client got in touch with Freshminds’ Projects Team as their London-based Strategy Team needed to call in senior researchers who can speak Spanish and Italian. They were undertaking a strategic research project to increase their international presence, especially opportunities within Europe, a...

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Strategy review for leading shipping and transportation company

Following a large scale management overhaul and subsequent shareholder mandate, our client confirmed a desire to review their strategy with a view to increasing their EBITDA growth rate. Rather than engage a traditional consulting firm, they chose to build a specialist interim consulting team led...

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Implementing a M&A lead generation study for a FMCG business

Background and client problem:Our client is a global FMCG business that was looking at potential acquisition targets and required a consultant to go over a list of leads in order to assess their suitability against a set of established criteria.The goal of the project was to have a vetted list of...

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A strategic move to Munich to join Global Insurer

A leading Global Insurer came to Freshminds to help them find analytical Minds to join their strategy team in Munich. We set out on an extensive recruitment campaign to find consulting skill set graduates to help them expand both their strategy department and their UK presence. From a shortlist o...

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Mission critical: PMO urgently needed for Project Management Office to manage critical acquisition project

After recently making an acquisition, our client were about to kick off the management of this critical merger project, but they didn’t have anyone in the business with the required skills to get the work done. It was a high-value acquisition and integral as part of their growth strategy for the ...

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The need for speed: 3 candidates in 3 weeks for Financial Services Consultancy

Our rapidly growing Financial Services client called in Freshminds to find standout graduates to help achieve their ambitious growth plans. With an extremely tight turnaround and strict candidate requirements, not only was an accelerated candidate search required but we also needed to build our c...

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Leading UK retailer builds brand new consulting arm

A leading UK retailer got in touch with Freshminds to help them build the strategy function of the business. As the role was based in Manchester we launched an extensive head-hunting campaign to find a candidate with the commerical skill set and with enough experience to to on this challenge and ...

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Analysing data and implementing reporting for the portfolio business of a private equity firm

Freshminds worked with the investment team of a mid-market private equity firm to support one of their portfolio businesses operating in the retail space for household pets. The company required support with interpreting their data and implementing a reporting structure to understand category per...

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Starting from scratch: building the UK arm of a Global Family Office

Our client, Global Family Office, came to Freshminds to find their first member of their London/Global team. They wanted an outstanding commerical skill set candidate, and we managed to find one of the best possible candidates in the market for the role via our network. Since joining the team the...

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The more the merrier: continuous projects with major Global Online Retailer

Our client – a major global online retailer - initially approached Freshminds when they were struggling to meet requests from vendors during a period of fast growth. We have since built a strong relationship with them over a number of years by providing high calibre analysts who’ve made a real im...

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Finding subject- matter specialists for growing strategy consulting firm

Our client is a well-established, steadily growing strategy consulting firm with a very specific sector focus. The firm was experiencing a strong period of commercial growth at the start of 2019 and as such, extra boosts on the ground were required. Given their specific area of focus, they had pr...

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Global management consultancy keen to expand on diversity intake

Our client is a well-known, global Management Consultancy, who was keen to expand on their diversity intake within their Consultant level Industry Hiring programme. Freshminds were able to provide a very targeted route to market and filter out the exceptional candidates, allowing the Consulting f...

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Hard to find, niche candidate for Private Equity firm

Freshmind’s Projects Team was tasked with finding a freelance analyst for a project investigating the best agricultural investment for our client, a Private Equity firm. Working to a tight timescale we managed to find a mind with a very niche, rare skill set who could analyse and identify the bes...

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Lasting the test of time with a top tier consultancy

Freshminds have worked with our client - a top tier consultancy - for over 10 years, providing candidates for due diligence and market research projects involving qualitative and quantitative surveying through desk and phone research.Over the years, we have worked on in excess of 250 projects for...

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Implementing a new research methodology for a leading boutique consultancy

A leading boutique consultancy had recently won a project which required a different research methodology to their current processes. Instead of conducting online surveys their client wanted face-to-face observations throughout the UK. This required a significant amount of resource which our clie...

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Going global: setting up graduate scheme for world-leading International Investment company

Our client is an international investor with offices across the world. With close to £13bn of assets under management, they focus on private equity, infrastructure and debt management. Freshminds was brought in to overhaul their graduate recruitment strategy and introduce their first graduate sch...

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Corporate Associate promoted to CEO, replacement required

Our client is a $3billion global business spanning 200 countries and owns and manages a portfolio of the world’s best known sports, outdoor and fashion brands. Freshminds had recently placed a Corporate Associate who quickly excelled and was promoted to CEO of one of their portfolio brands. So we...

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