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The consumer product sector’s size is enormous due to a vast abundance of retail products available, ranging from durable goods such as vehicles, jewellery and electronic devices to non-durable goods like clothing and cleaning products.

Today, many consumer products companies, who frequently served local, are multinational in scope.

Since competition in this sector is naturally fierce, cashing in on consumerism requires prudent marketing and thus an eye for spotting societal trends.

Even though mergers and acquisitions in the consumer products industry are scarce on a quantity basis, deal sizes are significant when they occur. The maturity of markets, fragmentation of customers, increased sophistication of operations and rising production input costs have further enhanced consolidation, creating fewer, larger companies which opt for global sourcing and strive for an expansion to emerging economies that are difficult to penetrate. In various subsectors, the market share of the largest firms has grown considerably within the past few years, driven by the desire to achieve scale economics.

This wave of consolidation entails various corporate challenges, ranging from the integration of acquirees and the attainment of promised synergies from the buyer’s perspective to lower margins and a loss in bargaining power from the point of remaining manufacturers and retailers.