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Spring 2023·PROJECT 12 / 13
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Supply New England

Wholesale distribution
Focus StrategyMarket Research

— Overview

Our team supported Supply New England, a regional wholesale distributor, with a management consulting-style location strategy engagement. The client needed a structured way to evaluate potential retail locations and identify markets that aligned with its customer base, operating model, and long-term growth priorities.

The team analyzed towns across Greater Boston and the South Shore, combining demographic research, competitor mapping, co-tenancy analysis, accessibility considerations, parking availability, and available-space research. The team translated this work into a weighted location-scoring matrix that compared markets across market potential, site selection, co-tenancy, operational considerations, and marketing factors.

The final recommendation gave Supply New England a data-backed shortlist of high-potential locations, along with a reusable decision framework for evaluating future expansion opportunities.

— Deliverables

  • Market research across Greater Boston and South Shore towns
  • Demographic analysis of income, home values, housing trends, and ownership rates
  • Competitive landscape mapping of relevant showroom and home-improvement competitors
  • Benchmarking of successful retail locations against key site-selection factors
  • Weighted location-scoring matrix across market potential, co-tenancy, site selection, operations, and marketing factors
  • Shortlist of high-potential retail locations
  • Final recommendation and reusable expansion decision framework
FBC's Spring 2023 cohort, including the Supply New England and Nussbaum Medien project teams
FBC's Spring 2023 cohort. We don't have a photo of the Supply New England project team on its own — this shows the full cohort, which also includes the Nussbaum Medien team.