Outside Advice and Equity Partner
In 2003, shortly after the private equity firm Berkshire Partners invested in Acosta, Berkshire recommended that Acosta engage with Bain Consulting to take a deep look at how Acosta did business. Bain brought in a team of highly qualified, experienced individuals and dug through a mountain of records on Acosta's business practices to find a better, faster and more efficient way of operating Acosta's sales and marketing business. The Bain team put in place new technologies and practices to increase the bottom line. Within three years, sales and profits skyrocketed.
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