Relying on acquisitions to enter new adjacent markets has become more complicated with competition over scarce assets coming from both rival firms and private equity buyers. For many companies, the far-reaching decisions they must make about their product portfolios, customer acquisition strategies, and global manufacturing footprints come around once in a generation.

Bain's Industrial Machinery experience

Bain has spent several decades working with industrial machinery companies, ranging from some of the world's largest diversified industrial companies to pure-play systems and component suppliers. We have assisted clients through good times and bad in the capital equipment cycle.

Bain's industrial machinery expertise spans a range of business issues. Our corporate strategy work helps clients determine strategic options for their portfolio by defining economic and competitive boundaries and allocating resources to the businesses best positioned to win. At the business unit level, we analyze customer segments and needs, relative cost position, and competitive position to identify attractive growth opportunities, optimize pricing and sales effectiveness, and improve operating performance.

We are focused from day one on helping our clients mobilize their organizations to deliver results from our work together, including developing and executing the organic growth and cost reduction roadmaps, implementing a decision driven organization, supporting M&A and divestment decisions and seeing those deals through with successful execution.

To find out more about Bain's work in Industrial Machinery please contact us.