The Latin American economy has seen better days.
Over the past few years, Latin American countries have experienced
slowdowns in both GDP and private-consumption growth, a rise in
inflation rates, and devaluations in currency. In this difficult
environment, consumer-packaged-goods (CPG) manufacturers must make
careful choices and deliberately weigh trade-offs.
How are the region’s leading CPG companies managing their customers
and channels? Our survey of 35 companies offers some best practices. We
examine what “winners” do differently from their peers—winners being
companies that achieved higher sales growth than the categories they
play in while also outperforming peers on one or more customer- or
channel-management metrics.
The survey results show that by applying
best practices, companies can grow sales by more than seven percentage
points ahead of others, while reducing selling expenses as a percent of
net sales (Exhibit 1). This difference in performance between winners
and others is bigger than in any other market we studied except China,
where the gap is 17 percentage points.1
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