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Industry Specialties

Our consultants offer the benefit of in-depth retained executive search skills plus the knowledge and contacts built during successful careers in the same industries and markets they now serve. We offer clients cutting-edge search capabilities in the industry market specialties.

In each of these industries, we are crafting a record of achievement across extensive business industry imagefunctions. We are confident that the executives we place have the skills, experience, and  passion to successfully drive enhanced performance and increase shareholder value. 

Electrical Manufacturing
Egret Consulting Group is well positioned as industry specialists in the $100B electrical industry. Our manufacturing clients represent the full spectrum of products: lighting, switchgear, wire/cable, construction materials, controls, factory automation, fuses, tools, etc.

Our experience includes most channel strategies: wholesale distribution, big box retail, OEM, MRO, utility, CEDIA, specialty retail and end-user solutions.

Our typical functional positions include: Sales, Marketing, Engineering, Operations and Finance. Typical searches include: sales, sales managers, marketing managers, national account managers, product development managers, application engineers, engineers, engineering managers, cost accountants, operations managers, manufacturing engineers, plant managers, quality managers, and channel manager.

Additionally, we regularly conduct senior executive searches, with recent positions including: VP, Sales; VP, Sales and Marketing; VP, International Sales; President; VP, Marketing; Regional VP; VP, Engineering; Dir of Product Development and CFO.

Wholesale Electrical and Industrial Distribution
Egret Consulting Group has served the wholesale distribution market since  inception. Our clients include National Chain, Regional, Specialty and Local distributors within the electrical and industrial supply markets. Our clients include specialty distributors for Allen-Bradley, Cutler-Hammer, GE and similar switchgear manufacturers, as well as members of all divisions of  Affiliated Distributors.  We serve the Electrical, HVAC, Plumbing, Industrial, Pipe Valve and Fittings (PVF) and Fastener Distribution Markets.

Our typical functional positions include: sales, inside sales, quotations, project managers, technical sales, branch managers, operations, finance, controllers and senior executive positions; including VP, Sales; VP, Operations; CFO; President; VP Marketing.

Senior Executive Retained Search
Egret Consulting Group is uniquely positioned to offer senior executive search and placement services within the electrical and electronic industries. Our process relies on our 25 years of industry relationships; throughout the manufacturing and wholesale distribution markets. Ted Konnerth manages our Senior Executive Search process. With senior executive experience as VP, Sales for a $1B manufacturing company, he can offer unique insights into strategic planning, organization development and executive compensation programs.

Our typical search positions include all Director, VP, President, C-level and board membership functions. Our process includes strategic planning consultation to ensure the specific responsibilities and accomplishments requisite for success within our client companies.

Our search process is highly confidential and can accommodate candidate identification and qualification well before the client company identity is released; ensuring complete confidentiality and minimizing internal repercussions.

Our recent positions include: VP of Sales/Marketing, Director of Product Development, VP of International Sales, Divisional President, and VP of Engineering.

Consulting Services
Egret Consulting Group also provides search and placement services in the Consulting Engineering, Design and Architectural Services segments.

Our industry consulting clients represent the full spectrum of leading MEP, Lighting Design and A/E firms that service the commercial and industrial construction industries in areas that include lighting design, LEED building design, power distribution, controls systems and electrical design.

Our typical functional positions include: Lighting Designers, Sr.  Lighting Designers and Managers, Electrical Engineers, Electrical Designers, Project Managers, PE's, Sr. Electrical Engineers, etc.

Mergers and Acquisitions
Egret Consulting Group offers a unique service to small business owners who have made the decision to sell their company. With our 25+ years of industry relationships, Egret can prepare a formal marketing presentation on the merits of acquiring your company and formally present your company to a small number of pre-qualified contacts.

Egret brings the industry expertise to develop a list of potential buyers who have the market presence, channel strategy and/or product mix that will make your acquisition a likely fit. Additionally, our industry ties represent the most senior executives in manufacturing and distribution. Our marketing presentation can get your company presented quickly to those companies most capable and interested in acquiring companies.

Our process involves an in-depth review of your company's financial, historical and cultural attributes; as well as your motivation for selling the company. We then match those needs and attributes to the cultural and financial strengths of our industry network. Our entire process is very confidential; requiring the use of non-disclosure agreements in every step of the process to ensure minimal disruption to your business.

Our fee structure for M&A consulting involves an advance payment for preparation of the marketing program and a percentage of the final sales price, plus reasonable expense sharing, where applicable.  

 

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