Agriculture / Food / Retail

Our sector expertise
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iQo has mastered all the :

  • the agriculture and agri-food industry: upstream agriculture, primary processing, consumer products, distribution
  • the major factors transforming agriculture / agri-food / distribution channels: new consumer expectations, CSR, food safety and traceability, digitalization and AI, digitalization of customer paths

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Strategy
and transformations

  • Analysis of trends in the world of agriculture, agri-food and distribution
  • Understanding consumer behavior and usage
  • Understanding consumer behavior and usage
  • Development of concepts, offers and associated customer experiences
  • Strategic innovation
  • Design, implementation and optimization of supply chain
  • Data strategy
  • IS Strategy
  • New corporate culture
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Our approach

To feed our thinking and propose innovative approaches and solutions, iQo maintains an ecosystem of startups positioned at the different stages of the agriculture / agri-food and distribution chain.

  • La Ferme Digitale: Association supporting the agricultural revolution through innovation, for high-performance, sustainable and socially responsible agriculture. iQo is a member of La Ferme Digitale, participates in LFDay and supports the implementation of its roadmap and the French AgriTech program.
  • Agriconomie: created in 2014, Agriconomie is the first online sales site entirely dedicated to farmers' supplies. Agriconomie is also a technology platform (AWL) offered on a "white label" basis to customers wishing to set up a web sales channel to complement their traditional sales channels, or to acquire more powerful tools for their web sales channel. Find out more about our partnership with Agriconomie.
  • FAMM Growth gas pedal and incubator created by entrepreneur Didier Rousseau, supporting the development of numerous Green Growth and AgriTech startups (Weenat, Promus, Connecting Food, NeoFarm, Agripolis, Thegreendata...).

Success stories

Steering the reorganization of a leading foodservice company

To adapt to a context of falling sales and slowing network growth, all head office departments and the regional organization responsible for running the restaurants were optimized.
  • Mapping the organization and costs of all head office functions (HR, Marketing Finance, Network, etc.).
  • Analysis of cost structures and drivers and their evolution over several years
  • Identification of levers and quantification of optimization potential based on alternative scenarios
  • Choosing levers with management
  • Action plans

Industrial performance plan for the dairy products leader

  • Manage an ambitious performance plan covering five industrial sites
  • Secure and accelerate sales
  • Create a collective dynamic to mobilize around the project
Support for the management team in steering the plan :
  • target validation
  • seeking synergies
  • accelerating earnings
  • cross-functional consistency of the plan
  • follow-up
  • risk management
  • operational monitoring of projects
  • targeted participation in decision-making bodies
Acceleration of team dynamics :
  • methodological support for teams
  • general progress reporting
  • results follow-up

Transport organization for an agricultural cooperative

The workflows of an agricultural cooperative are manifold, ranging from the collection of raw materials to the distribution of agricultural supplies. All transport operations are managed independently by each business line.
  • Diagnosis of transport flows
  • Estimating optimization challenges
  • Implementation of a transport management tool for the entire cooperative

Organization of the merger of the divisions of a European milling leader

For strengthen synergies and optimize costs between neighboring countries (France and Belgium):
  • setting up a unified organization
  • overhaul of territorial organization
  • Mapping of central organizations by function (Finance, HR, Marketing, Sales, Export, Customer Service, Industrial Management)
  • Organizational recommendations to General Management

Audit of the information system and IT department of a leading sports retailer

To align its information system with its strategy, the retailer wanted a diagnosis of its IS and IT Department before drawing up an IS master plan.
  • IS inventory, including applications, repositories, infrastructures and current and planned projects
  • Optimization recommendations
  • Identification of business needs over a three-year horizon
  • Follow-up prioritization work to build the future IS roadmap

Our recent publications

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François Laham

Associate Supply Chain

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André Morneau

Associate Agri/Agro & Retail

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Thibaut Venat

Agri/Agro & Retail Manager

How can iQo support you?

iQo is a new player in the consulting sector, whose mission is to "unleash collective genius to co-construct desirable futures".

  • Our firm offers a unique approach to co-construction with our customers.
  • We advocate the hybridization of skills and know-how
  • We offer you small, agile teams that are sincerely committed to working alongside you, as an extension of your teams.
  • We are "makers" and offer concrete, results-oriented solutions tailored to your specific
    needs.
  • We're committed: iQo is an ISO 14001 and B Corp certified company with a mission.
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