ARG provides immediate management, operational, and financial assistance to companies in distress. Target clients are manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors and retailers of consumer products. ARG specializes in stepping into complex, over-leveraged situations and working side-by-side with management to restore operational and financial stability. Clients are provided with a structured path of tailored turnaround initiatives to restore viability, profitability, and credibility. ARG uses a common sense approach and is entirely capable of developing new approaches in order to ensure a maximum result on each assignment.
Turnaround Management Consulting Services:
- Interim Management.
- COO, CFO, CRO, and functional VP
- Plant and operations management
- Crisis stabilization
- Management assessments
- Viability analysis of the business and its segments
- Cash Flow and liquidity management
- Stabilizing core operations
- Implementing cash conservation guidelines and controls
- Business plan development
- Financial modeling and projections
- Development and review of cost reduction initiatives
- Business and turnaround planning, and plan implementation
- Assist management with implementing an operational restructuring
- Ongoing communications processes with key stakeholders
- Collateral protection and marshaling
- Managing creditor communication and negotiation
- Capital Markets communication and negotiations
- Identify improvements to capital structure
- Assist in business or asset divestiture programs
- Develop debt-restructuring strategy and assist in negotiations
- Assist in obtaining appropriate financing
- Identify additional working capital sources
- Performance Improvements
- Customer/channel/product profitability analysis
- Competitor/market/opportunity analysis
- Cost and margin structure analysis and adjustment
- Product and customer profitability analysis
- Identification and disposition of non-core assets
- Information systems assessments
- Pre-bankruptcy planning (if required)
- Assisting with bankruptcy case administration
- Expert witness testimony
- Going-concern and liquidation-value modeling
Financial Advisory
- Assessments of business plans, financial performance, and management
- Lender, investor, and bond group representations
- Value and recovery maximization
- Operational due diligence on new investments and acquisition integration
- Risk Reducer-performance improvement analysis