Our experience of working with beauty and healthcare manufacturers would certainly support the claim that this industry has not suffered any ill effects from the recession; UK exports of cosmetic products has been growing around 5% every year and with UK consumers spending £8.9 billion on beauty and personal care products in 2013, Mintel forecasts sales will hit £10 billion by 2017.

Our involvement in this ever growing and dynamic market place has been focussed primarily on warehouse and transport networks, building bespoke models of potential solutions and calculating to business case level the commercial impacts of preferred solutions. For one particular client this year we started with a project brief to model 5 concepts and ended up with over 140 variations, each evaluated to cost line level.