Creating value in a competitive environment
Achieving strategic advantage becomes a non-stop challenge in today's competitive retail marketplace. Some of the many challenges facing the industry include:

• Changing consumer demands - drive for innovation, increasing transparency, accountability and loyalty;
• Slowdown of growth in consumer spending - flexibility in supply chain, good management information, contingency planning;
  
• Margin pressure - stock loss, supply chain efficiency, competitor activity and employee costs;
• Property - availability of right sites, cost of property and flexibility;
• Increasing legislation and regulation - end of life directives, packaging waste, emissions, grey goods, intellectual property and pensions;
• Brand - brand evaluation, brand development and brand protection
• Managing growth - infrastructure, cost control, employee issues and acquisitions.

At KPMG in Portugal we understand these issues and work with some profile and innovative retailers - improving internal controls, undertaking global due diligence and audit, implementing cost and tax saving packages - to help achieve and sustain competitive advantage.

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