Business Strategy

Strategic thinking to help you reach your corporate goals

For transportation and logistics services providers, PLG Consulting helps you develop and execute strategies for:

  • Growth and market penetration
  • Competitive advantage
  • Mergers and acquisitions (M&A)

PLG Consulting’s deep and broad experience combines insights from both service provider and shipper perspectives.  We bring a strong understanding of commodity flows, market conditions, and business drivers within our key industry verticals (and your important customers) – green energy, renewables, chemicalsoil and gasmanufacturingminerals and metals and other bulk commodities. Take advantage of our unique knowledge. Let us help you formulate strategies that achieve your business goals.

Growth and market penetration

PLG Consulting helps you penetrate new markets and customers with more than just market data and trends analysis. We also help facilitate contacts and relationships within target industries and customers, ensuring the value we deliver is practical and actionable. We identify new customers and products that can be handled by carriers and terminals, supporting improved asset utilization.

Competitive advantage

Get a leg up on both direct and modal competition. With a strong command of surface transportation across all modes, as well as unique insights on industry players, PLG Consulting helps you determine the best business strategies to rise above your competition.

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A)

PLG Consulting understands the business of all surface transportation modes – rail, intermodal, truck, barge, pipeline, and ocean – as well as terminals, distribution companies, and logistics service providers.

Private equity firms, transportation and logistics companies looking to make changes in their existing or planned portfolio companies call PLG Consulting to help with their M&A strategy. Beyond target profiles, end-customer markets, and geographic focus, we add practical and actionable solutions with key introductions, valuation advisory, due diligence, and post-transaction improvements.

Call or email us to schedule a no-obligation, custom consultation.

Project Examples

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