Frankfurt Consulting for Finance, Freight and Industry Firms

• Finance and its advisers

  The city's convention bureau describes Frankfurt as a financial centre hosting the Bundesbank, the European Central Bank and the German stock exchange. Boutique advisers, payment firms and back-office service companies tend to cluster nearby.

• Airport, rail and freight

  The convention bureau calls Frankfurt a centre of the German logistics and mobility industries, citing one of Europe's larger airports, a busy station and dense motorway links. The chamber of commerce lobbies on airport, motorway junction, rail hub and port access, which shows how much local trade depends on moving goods.

• Chemicals, pharma and industrial parks

  The region is described as home to many industrial parks, with chemicals, pharmaceuticals and life sciences as a main business field. The city's industry plan treats industry as a network of manufacturing and related services. Smaller suppliers, lab service firms and maintenance contractors work for the larger plants.

• Agencies, games and data

  The same source describes a creative scene of international network agencies, many small specialist agencies and a concentration of game developers. IT and telecom firms also use the city's role as a major internet junction and data-centre location.

• 01Boutique finance advisers often rely on a few senior people who hold the client relationships, so the firm's value walks out when one of them leaves.
• 02Freight and forwarding firms commonly pay carriers and fees quickly while waiting weeks on customers, which strains working capital.
• 03Small suppliers to chemical and pharma plants commonly sell to just a handful of large buyers, so one contract change can reshape the year.
• 04Agencies and IT service firms often compete with banks and larger companies for the same skilled staff, which pushes up pay and turnover.

UTC+1 in winter, UTC+2 in summer. Frankfurt is 4 h 30 min behind India in the winter months; summer shortens that gap to 3 h 30 min.

We book the first call once the scope of the problem is clear, so the conversation starts from your business and not from a calendar.

• Financial services
• Logistics
• Manufacturing
• Professional services
• Technology

Trades to start from

• Wealth management firms
• Payment and fintech companies
• Finance and insurance advisers
• Freight and transport companies
• Customs clearance agents
• Chemical manufacturers
• Advertising agencies
• Managed IT service providers

• Business Process

  Writing down how a client is onboarded and reviewed helps advisory firms reduce dependence on one senior person.

• Business Consulting

  Forwarders serving manufacturers and traders can compare each customer's payment habits with the carrier costs paid out for them.

• Business Growth

  Suppliers tied to a few plants can plan a wider customer mix without risking their core accounts.

• Business Audit

  An audit of margin by client shows agencies and IT firms which accounts justify the staff time they take.

1. First call by phone or video, to hear how your business runs and what is stuck.
2. A written scope that says what we will look at, what you will receive and what we need from you, with the fee written in your own currency.
3. Your first sheet: the one page of numbers or decisions that the work starts from.
4. A review rhythm agreed with you, so the work is checked against what actually happened.