A regional strategy helps global retailer find its way

A global specialty retail conglomerate needed a new regional strategy to reverse a trend of lackluster performance. Bain performed a market-by-market analysis analyzing attractiveness, strategic position and fit and developed a comprehensive global plan. The resulting targeted actions for each market led to a 60 percent increase in market capitalization.

TradingPostCo was ready to get on the high-growth track, but needed a new corporate strategy to guide the way.

TradingPostCo, a $10B global specialty retail conglomerate, had performed poorly over the past decade and had a drooping stock price to match
The company asked Bain to develop a corporate strategy for successful financial performance

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Since TradingPostCo is a global retail conglomerate, it needed a regional strategy for its retail stores. Bain assessed each market separately for attractiveness, strategic position and fit with a new strategy.

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Based on this analysis, Bain recommended that TradingPostCo take action appropriate for each market—including getting out of unprofitable locations.

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TradingPostCo implemented the new strategy based on Bain's suggestion to break the company into independent regions. The resulting overall performance improvement has been impressive.