The Partnering Group (TPG) is a management consulting firm, founded in 1990 by a mix of senior consumer product Retailer and Manufacturer managers. The objective of this company was to provide proven enterprise-wide collaborative solutions for the Consumer Packaged Goods Industry (CPG), worldwide. Shortly after TPG’s being founded, the Efficient Consumer Response (ECR) initiative began -- the purpose of which was to create consumer-focused Best Practices which would drive out costs and barriers at the Retailer/Manufacturer/Consumer interface.

From the outset of the ECR effort, through today, TPG has worked with Industry partners to provide leadership and Best Practice solutions to a wide variety of demand and supply-side opportunities. Examples of this leadership include TPG-led development of Best Practices Category Management, Efficient Assortment, Efficient Product Introductions and Menu Pricing, to name a few.

More recently, TPG has continued to provide consulting leadership and training products in such areas as integrated business planning, organization design and capability enhancement, strategic customer and supplier management, along with consumer marketing and supply chain excellence.

Within the past few years, TPG’s comprehensive Retail and Manufacturer expertise has been applied to more than 1200 brands, 400 product categories and 15 diverse retail channels on five continents.

Today, TPG’s highly experienced Partners provide consulting and training solutions to over 150 clients in more than 13 countries on an annual basis. These clients range from multi-division/ multi-national/ multi-billion dollar organizations to single product/ local/ 100 million dollar companies. TPG continues to provide Retailers and Manufacturers with experience-based and Best Practice-based consulting and training to a degree available by no other consulting resource in the world.