'Herbert Smith LLP regularly works with clients needing business intelligence and specific investigation and information gathering skills. We invariably seek to involve Risk Advisory because they are highly skilled in their approach and have senior people who are strategic thinkers with well-tuned political antennae. "

Simon Bushell, Partner, Head of the Corporate Fraud Group, Herbert Smith

 

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Assessing the capabilities of the competition



Our client, a European food manufacturer planned to construct a new processing facility in the Czech Republic. The intention was to manufacture a range of products using predominantly local inputs and to sell the products in both the domestic and export markets. This would have put our client in direct competition with a multinational food producer as well as with a number of local producers.

Our client was concerned that it had insufficient information about certain commercial advantages of the main competitors, in particular cost advantages which might enable them to enter into a sustained price war. Our investigation examined the strategies of competitors, organisational issues and key supplier relationships and enabled our client to select the ground on which to confront the competition.
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