Matt Hamory, Partner & Managing Director and Leader of Grocery & Food Retail at AlixPartners, was interviewed by Kristen Schwan with Marketplace Radio: Vertical integration might help companies figure out their tariff strategy

That’s why Matthew Hamory, who leads grocery and food retail at AlixPartners, said vertical integration can work for big companies. “They’ve already shown they can manage a complex organization. They have a good talent pool,” he said. They can poach the best designers, marketers and logistics managers. Those big companies also have money: “If you’re gonna, say, build a manufacturing plant you have to be pretty sure you’re going to get a return for the capital you’re going to invest in that,” Hamory said.

Listen to the full radio segment here