Feasibility Studies
To determine the viability of a new business project
With the combined strengths of S&P Global and IHS Markit, we offer unique inter-related insights into the agribusiness and energy sectors, including in the renewable fuels and transportation industries, backed by data and insight developed over decades.
As the only specialist agribusiness consulting firm covering the whole value chain, we offer unrivalled insights into both the big picture as well as market-specific detail.
To determine the viability of a new business project
To reduce the level of uncertainty by converting facts, figures and raw data into actionable information
To better understand supply capacity and where businesses are vulnerable to disruptions
To understand the impact of new agricultural, food and bioenergy policies
To support M&A opportunities based on independent, quantitative due diligence analysis
Offering both the big picture as well as market-specific detail
Organizations we work with
Global agribusiness and agriculture are undergoing the largest transformation in a generation.
With global trade in food increasing, and the interdependencies never higher, these changes are having a profound long-term impact on agriculture industry participants.
Our experts unpack issues of decarbonization, biofuels, regional conflicts, growing demand and future sources of supply, and explore where we are headed with agricultural price, volatility and availability.
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What makes us different
Our team includes over 250 trusted experts located in key regions, including North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Our local, on-the-ground presence enables us to easily collaborate with our customers and understand their regional challenges, to deliver the optimum tailored solution.
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Assess the practicality of a proposed plan or method
Prior to entering a new business, it is important to understand the nature of the markets, the expected financial returns and the risks that surround these expected outcomes.
A feasibility study provides financial metrics based on cash-flow projections and determines the viability of the project.
We have a deep understanding of the agriculture, renewable fuels and transportation industries, and we leverage our proprietary data and analysis to provide unparalleled evaluation of the markets.
This combination of experience, resources and skills is critical in determining whether your new business ventures have a likelihood of being feasible.
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A foundation in successful sales, marketing and decision-making
Decision-making is always accompanied with uncertainties and risks.
Market research helps to reduce the level of uncertainty by taking facts, figures and data and converting them into actionable information that is useful to you as a decision-maker.
With decades of experience and strong insight and data support, we help you understand evolving market factors to manage risks and spot opportunities.
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Analyzing the resilience of your supply chains
Today’s fast-moving agricultural markets demand an intelligent supply chain to anticipate and react to changes.
Indeed, the war in Ukraine has led to a reduced capacity to supply certain agricultural feedstocks on top of already strained supply chains, driving up prices and placing pressure on production margins.
You need the full picture to make informed procurement, production and trading decisions and to protect your organization from unwanted exposure in your supply chains.
With supply chain analysis, we help you analyze the security of your supply chains and the complex risks posed by suppliers, products, pricing, regulations and more – to ensure resilience and provide you greater clarity in an increasingly interconnected agriculture market.
Understand the impact of policy on your business
Policy change can have major impacts on the agri-food and bioenergy sectors, as well as on the overall macro economy.
There is considerable uncertainty about what the new agri-food and bioenergy policies might look like and what they may mean for businesses operating along the value chain.
Are you prepared for these changes and their impact on your business?
We provide agricultural policy and economic consulting services that can help you understand the impact of policy on your business.
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Expert due diligence to support M&A transactions
Built on our extensive industry insights and proprietary information, our consulting team are leaders in providing due diligence to support M&A transactions.
From risk advisory to business plan projections, we provide advice and support on all aspects of the lending, purchasing and selling process.
Our consultants' expert due diligence approach will improve your odds of successful M&A or in identifying the right M&A targets.
We have worked on numerous food and agribusiness M&A long-term outlook projects and we bring our expertise to all elements of the value chain.
Timely, customized projects backed up by trusted proprietary data, authoritative analysis and insightful forecasts
Challenge: A petroleum refining company wanted to gain a better understanding of how the refining and biofuels industries overlap one another, in particular the role of agriculture on biofuels. The client was considering the conversion of existing crude oil refineries to renewable diesel plants.
Solution: We first looked at the overall biofuels market, supply and demand dynamics, and policy fundamentals. We then incorporated outlooks for the agriculture and downstream oil industries as well as biofuels and policy considerations.
We developed models and scenarios specific to the refineries being evaluated for conversion, with the scenarios defined by projections of how the oil and agriculture industries might develop in the future.
Results: The information we provided helped support their decision to move forward with some refinery conversion projects.
Challenge: A specialty chemical company came to us to understand the potential market for second-generation biofuels and how their high-performance catalyst products could fit into the ethanol production process for that market.
Solution: Our approach was to break out the various components that influence the market.
Our first step was to look at the regulatory environment, the demand patterns for liquid fuels and key regional markets for cellulosic ethanol (as cellulosic feedstocks were the client’s main area of interest).
Next, we evaluated the availability and demand for multiple second-generation feedstocks in addition to cellulosic feedstocks in the key regions identified.
We combined these supply and demand views into an overall picture of the market. The client then could compare this view with their own internal data and processes to evaluate the market potential for their products.
Results: We provided the client with an extensive presentation of our findings, complete with backup data and the opportunity for the client to ask questions of our consultants. With these findings, the client could then evaluate the market potential for their products.