Business turnaround advisory

When the plant runs but the P&L doesn't.

For promoters, CEOs, Boards and Investors carrying a business that is underperforming, Mid-transition, or Growing slower than Industry peers . We diagnose the root cause, design the fix around your numbers, and stay through implementation.

₹600 L+
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Peak EBITDA improvement
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What we do

6 places we move the needle.

Most engagements start in one and pull in two others. The diagnostic decides which.

01

Business turnaround

Restoring profitability and operational stability in underperforming businesses.

02

Operational excellence

Production efficiency, plant utilisation and cost-structure discipline.

03

Commercial transformation

Pricing, portfolio mix and market positioning that protects margin while volume grows.

04

Sales & distribution

Channel strength, market expansion and revenue growth built on real route economics.

05

Leadership advisory

Strategic and organisational decision support for CEOs, promoters and boards.

06

Executive education

Capability building for the team that has to hold the gains after we leave.

How we work

Discover → Diagnose → Design → Deploy → Derive Results

We measure success in results delivered, not decks presented. Every stage has an owner, a date and a number attached to it.

Site walk-through with plant staff 01

Discover

Understand the business as it actually operates — on site, not on paper.

Cost and performance data review 02

Diagnose

Find the root cause. Separate the symptom from the thing causing it.

Strategy session at a whiteboard 03

Design

Build a strategy fit for your business, your market and your constraints.

Implementation on the shop floor 04

Deploy

Implement alongside your team. We are in the room when it goes live.

Weekly KPI review meeting 05

Derive results

Weekly reviews and performance tracking until the gain is locked in.

Proven results

Four businesses, four different problems.

Each of these was led from inside the organisation, with accountability for the outcome.

JK Lakshmi Cement

Cement · Commercial transformation

₹387 PMT ₹1,038 PMT
BeforeAfter · 4 years

Commercial transformation, premium positioning and an optimised product mix, held in place by weekly KPI transparency and a performance-linked culture. A 168% EBITDA improvement.

Shree Cement

Cement · Volume & channel growth

80K MT/mo 153K MT/mo
BeforeAfter · +91%

A ₹5,000 Cr revenue portfolio with ₹500 Cr premium realisation delivered through CRM, channel transformation and logistics route mapping.

Ever Enviro

Waste processing · Capacity turnaround

1,600 TPD 2,800 TPD
BeforeAfter · +75%

18.5% sales growth and 147% growth in value-added products from 259 new customers — ₹600 L annual commercial value created with no major capital expenditure. In this assignment PINAQ earned the Success fees.

ACC — Holcim India

Cement · Market build from zero

Built from zero ₹1,100 Cr
Start₹1,456 Cr EBITDA

A team of 500+. Two premium products launched, 3,700 primary partners and 11,000 retailers across 12 states. Six volume-linked models built to improve NPS. Built ACC–Holcim’s ICI (Infrastructure, Commercial & Industrial) B2B vertical from scratch.

Engagement models

Choose the depth that fits where you are starting from.

All five run on the same method. They differ in how long we stay and how much of the execution we carry.

01

Strategic advisory

High-level executive counsel for promoters, boards and leadership teams. Monthly cadence, board-level decisions, no day-to-day involvement.

02

Business transformation project

End-to-end support from diagnosis to implementation, scoped to a defined outcome with a defined timeline and a success-fee component.

03

Interim executive leadership

Experienced leadership sitting in the seat during a transition, a succession gap, or a period of rapid expansion.

04

Corporate workshops

Executive learning and capability building for existing teams. See Leadership Programs

05

Long-term transformation partnership

Continuous strategic guidance, performance reviews and mentoring — for organisations that want the gains to compound.

Where we have operated

Sector knowledge that shortens the diagnostic.

We do not arrive and spend six weeks learning your industry. In these sectors we already know the cost structure, the channel behaviour and the levers that actually move margin.

Cement Building materials Manufacturing Chemicals Infrastructure Cosmetics Non-polluting brick manufacturing Controlled-environment agriculture Solar up to 10 MW
Industrial sites across sectors
Start with a diagnosis

Tell us the number that is not moving.

A fifteen-minute call, then — if there is a fit — a two-hour diagnostic session with your commercial and operations heads. You will get a written read on what is fixable, in what order, and what it is worth.