Customer & Market Due Diligence
We establish a clear picture of the target company’s market positioning and growth potential in even the most complex and data-poor niche markets. Our analytical rigor and broad industry expertise enable us to perform a quick but robust assessment of key market drivers and trends, and build a bottom-up market model to establish reliable market size/growth projections. Through our exhaustive research, including customer, supplier, competitor, and expert interviews, we establish competitive dynamics, technology/service advantages, customer buying criteria, and customers’ perception of the target. We then develop a top-level strategic plan – in essence a post-acquisition growth roadmap (add-ons and organic) for our clients.
Deciphering CTV And Programmatic Advertising Ecosystems And Growth Outlook
Conducted a 3-week customer & market due diligence to establish the growth outlook of CTV and programmatic display advertising and the target’s competitive positioning in the CTV advertising ecosystem. To this end, Gotham: conducted 35 interviews with and 280+ online surveys of publishers, advertisers, advertising agencies, and AdTech platforms; established CTV and programmatic display market dynamics and digital ad spend trends; and built a comprehensive database of AdTech platforms. Gotham provided our client a clear view on the inner workings of the CTV and programmatic display ad ecosystems and the target’s positioning within the CTV ecosystem. This clarity along with a fact-based outlook for digital marketing spend allowed our client to gain confidence in the target’s potential and move forward to close the deal.
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Understanding Risk Posed By National Haulers
Conducted a 3-week customer & market due diligence of a managed waste solutions provider to establish the target's positioning/risk vs. national waste haulers; its competitive differentiation; its margin stability and recession risk; and the overall managed waste solutions market size and growth expectations. To this end, Gotham: conducted 33 interviews with and 73 online surveys of customers; built a detailed end-market level sizing model; determined the managed waste solutions competitive landscape; analyzed distances between landfills and the target’s customers; built a recession impact model; and established customer and hauler pricing mechanisms. Gotham provided a detailed view on the competitive dynamics and risks posed by the national waste haulers and the advantages of managed waste solutions providers, helping build client confidence in pursuing the target aggressively.
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Establishing Supply/Demand Imbalance And Growth Outlook
Conducted a 3-week customer & market due diligence to: (1) establish the adolescent/young adult mental health treatment addressable market size; and (2) validate the target’s outpatient and short-term residential program growth opportunities. To this end, Gotham: conducted interviews with and surveys of psychiatrists, educational consultants, residential programs, payors, and insurance advocates; built a supply/demand model to quantify the gap between current and unconstrained demand for these services; established insurance dynamics pertaining to behavioral health coverage; and built a database of residential treatment programs. Armed with the clarity on supply/demand imbalances in outpatient and short-term residential care treatment provided by Gotham, our client gained confidence in the target’s aggressive growth plan and moved forward to successfully close the deal.
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Validating National Expansion Opportunity for a Regional Refrigerated Mexican Food Brand
Conducted a 2-phase due diligence to: (1) validate the national expansion opportunity in grocery, (2) validate the growth opportunity in foodservice, and (3) assess operations risks and opportunities. Gotham interviewed ~70 retail and foodservice buyers and surveyed ~4,000 consumers to establish target’s brand positioning and growth opportunity. We also leveraged Nielsen data to build an MSA-level market sizing model to establish a $2B addressable market size. To support national expansion, Gotham established second plant economics and profiled the competitive landscape to identify acquisition candidates. Our operational assessment did not reveal any significant commodity pricing margin risks and, in fact, identified material yeild and labor savings opportunities. These fact-based conclusions gave the client the conviction needed to submit an aggressive bid to win this hotly contested auction.
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Establishing Target’s Brand Reputation and Growth Opportunities of Plumbing and Drain Cleaning Services Company
Conducted 4-week customer & market due diligence to: (1) validate defensibility of target’s residential business; (2) establish/confirm growth opportunity in the commercial business; and (3) validate the opportunity to expand into the water damage restoration market. Gotham undertook an exhaustive fact-based approach: consumer panel and customer surveys; commercial customer surveys and interviews across 11 end-markets; deep-dive analysis of several years of job-level data; and detailed competitive landscapes in each of the target’s territories. Gotham’s fact-based conclusions allowed our client to gain confidence in defensibility of the target’s market position and viability of its growth plan leading to the successful close of the transaction.
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Deciphering a Niche Market to Validate Growth Plan of Municipal/Utility Services Company
Conducted 4-week customer and market due diligence to: (1) establish municipal budget outlook; (2) establish market size and growth outlook for wastewater infrastructure services; and (3) understand the target’s competitive positioning. The effort included: 124 interviews with municipal and utility officials; in-depth research of environmental regulations; top-down/bottom-up municipal budget analysis; and creation of 3 bottom-up marketing sizing models. Gotham’s comprehensive, fact-based approach verified that the target’s aggressive growth plans were realistic and the target had established a strong reputation with its customers. This allowed our PE client to gain confidence in the target’s ability to meet its revenue plan and move forward with the acquisition.
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