The Consultancy Co-operative is a thriving network of 25+ freelance business consultants working across all major business functions, offering complimentary skill sets to support FMCG, food & drink businesses for fractional project or part-time working.
0
Freelance consultants
0
Years of FMCG experience
0
Clients supported
Our story
The Consultancy Co-operative was started by 3 former business colleagues: Stuart Holmes, Rachelle Wood & Crispin Stephens.
Between us we share 75 years broad FMCG senior leadership experience working across start-up, scale up and large multi-national companies.
We created TCC with the desire to make a meaningful difference for businesses and brands, wanting to accelerate their growth but without having all the resources to do so. As fractional business consultants ourselves, we recognised there was a huge opportunity to bring a flexible and agile network together that businesses could tap into on their terms from single specialist fractional briefs to multi-disciplinary projects.
Stuart Holmes
An experienced FMCG Managing Director with a focus on people, culture and long-term profitable brand growth.
Delivering best-in-class results across globally renowned and challenger brands for over 25 years, including Bacardi-Brown Forman Brands, Campari and illycaffè.
Rachelle Wood
With over 25 years’ experience, Rachelle specialises in commercial marketing, brand building and customer strategy for growth-stage and established FMCG businesses. She works across brand portfolio management, category development, shopper marketing and commercial transformation, bringing senior experience from Bacardi and Tesco.
Her approach integrates insight-driven customer engagement, white-space identification and practical commercial strategy to deliver measurable growth.
Crispin Stephens
A commercial marketing director with over 25 years’ experience driving marketing and commercial performance for start-up and challenger food and drinks brands.
Passionate about working with founders and leadership teams to scale brands and deliver measurable, sustainable business impact.
Alongside consultancy, Crispin is also a qualified Career & Leadership Coach; supporting senior professionals to successfully manage career transitions.
See how we’ve helped FMCG, food & drink brands grow, scale, and deliver measurable results through our flexible consultancy model.
If you’d like to explore how we could support your business, get in touch to see how we can help you.