Chemicals

The highly competitive chemicals industry faces challenges of finding cost-cutting solutions, implementing value-driven divestment strategies as well as handling all the recent merger and acquisition activity. A.T. Kearney's consultants have the industry-specific expertise to help our global chemical industry clients realise tangible results, from restructuring of global production networks to asset management to developing a guide to value creation through divestment strategies.

A stringent and systematic approach for value-enhancing divestment enables traditional chemical companies and financial investors to successfully realise maximum value from a business considered for divestment and identify key value drivers.

A.T. Kearney's proven methodology in this area includes (i)business and divestment case validation; (ii) corporate strategy and corporate vision development; (iii) detailed value-creating measures and action plan; (iv)plan to unbundle the business and set up ready-to-divest candidate; (v) preparation of the selling process; (vi)development and implementation of a powerful internal and external communications plan.