Stefanie Pfeffel
(Chairwoman)
Who we are
It is important to mention that the partners and consultants of ICONE Group are all former industrial investors and entrepreneurs. Starting from 1988, they have created or acquired industrial companies, in various sectors such as the transportation / logistics sector, the luxury sector, mechanical or electronic production, ... and as such they have a very extensive industrial experience in Europe and on an international level: They have handled local industrial companies in Germany, Belgium, Italy, Spain, the UK, the US, Eastern Europe, Japan, India, Russia, China, …
In parallel to these activities, and using their extensive experience in industrial production, they started to accept senior expert consulting missions and have, for most of them, created their own consulting companies, in areas such as Lean Manufacturing, Productivity Enhancement, Innovation and Change Management and have started to work on our Reconversion Methodology since 2003.
They have handled operational consulting missions:
- in around 20 industrial sectors such as in particular : the steel sector, the mechanical sector, electronics, plastics industry, pharmaceutics, agriculture, automobile and aeronautics industry, luxury sector, new technologies, …,
- in around 15 countries such as : France, Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom, the US, Spain, Japan, India, China, …,
- for around 40 clients such as : AIRBUS, ALCATEL, ALSTOM, AREVA, ARJO-WIGGINS, ASCOM, BASF, BNP Paribas, BOSCH, CARREFOUR, CARBONE LORRAINE, CARBONE OF AMERICA, CCF, DAIMLER, DALKIA, DUFERCO, EADS, EDF NUCLEAIRE, FAURECIA, GDF SUEZ, GATES, GSK, HERMES, INTERMARCHE, JOKER, JOHN DEERE, LAURENT PERRIER, MAGNETI MARELLI, MASSEY FERGUSON, PSA, RENAULT, SIEMENS, THALES, TRW, VALEO, VALFOND, ...
The CVs of our consultants are available on request.
Consultants Industrial Experts
Our approach :
What makes us different from other traditional consulting firms?
The ICONE Group (Industrial Conversions Europe) partners and consultants have specialized since 1998 in improving manufacturing performance. They have led operational missions in twenty different business sectors in more than 15 countries. Since 2003, they started to realize successful Industrial Conversion or “Reindustrialization” missions.
Unlike a traditional consulting firm specialized in Change Management or HR restructuring and outplacement, we operate only on the M&A segment, but we support with different competencies all aspects of the Conversion, on the transferor and on the buyer side.
We employ experts having the exact technical expertise to achieve the operational targets of our missions. This expertise allows us to analyse the impact of the Industrial Conversion and the usability of existing technical means and machinery on a production site, in a very short time. It also enables us to activate our large network of industrial owners to identify potential interest for the production sites to be closed. At the same time, our experience allows us to easily manage the contractual, financial and social aspects of the conversion projects.
Our methodology encompasses a specialized expertise, both technical and legal or organizational, that no other consulting firm can demonstrate in the same manner. This is why employing ICONE Group on a project does not mean to EXCLUDE other solutions (such as a re-industrialization project after a Social Plan or a partial conversion of a production site with re-industrialization). It just means to try out the most efficient solution first, and then apply the other options.
Our success clearly demonstrates that it is possible to convert industrial sites for other industries. That is why we charge most of our fees based on the success of the approach. In our case, the customer will not have to pay full fees to a consulting firm that does not provide immediately applicable solution.
Our international network :
ICONE Group is partner of the Emerging Markets Consulting XAVANTES and its large Network. Other partnerships between the different international consultants have been created during the years, for example with Industrial Associations all over the world. ICONE Group disposes of a large network of local offices in the countries.
These partners and local offices are able to identify industrial investors in Developing Countries, Emerging Markets, and the Western World. With more than 100 offices and partners, the network of ICONE Group / XAVANTES is able to guarantee successful results for the research of future partners or buyers, proposed during the Reconversion or M&A missions.
