Dozens of interviews with C-level executives of leading international companies have shown that most multinational companies face 7 key strategic Boardroom challenges. These challenges together form the integral corporate agenda.
Locations and corporate real estate play a strategic role in achieving this corporate agenda. That’s the result of a major Buck Consultants International study, which analyzed the relation between the 7 corporate challenges mentioned and the ways how the right locations can enhance or block achieving these objectives. »»

Janssen Pharmaceutica, part of global leader Johnson & Johnson, has opened its new distribution center for pharmaceutical medicines in La Louvière, Belgium. The new DC is the result of a redesign of the supply chain. Nearly 50 million euro have been invested in the new DC, which employs 115 people. »»

The pharmaceutical industry is on a necessary transformation journey. Healthcare reforms, patent expiries and increased service requirements urge pharmaceutical companies to adapt their business model. A study of Buck Consultants International identifies 8 key challenges, which ask for step changes, in which the supply chain plays a strategic change management role. »»

Massachusetts based biotech firm EnVivo Pharmaceuticals has chosen the Netherlands for its first European office. The company has a promising pipeline for safe and effective CNS treatments, in order to address diseases like Alzheimer’s disease and schizophrenia.

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Okay, we know about multimodal transport, intermodal transport and co-modal transport. But nowadays experts speak about synchromodal transport. Is that refurbished old stuff? “No”, says Kees Verweij, principal consultant at Buck Consultants International, “if you use synchromodal transport well, it can offer a clear competitive advantage”. »»

The people in China spend more money on their clothes. So it is no surprise that VF Corporation, with its well-known brands such as Lee, Wrangler, Timberland, The North Face and Vans grows very rapidly in China. As a result a new distribution system was needed. »»

European fashion and lifestyle companies have to migrate to a cross-channel, high speed, end-to-end value chain in order to stay competitive in a very dynamic environment. That’s the main conclusion Buck Consultants International draws in a study, commissioned by DHL Supply Chain. »»

Organising transport within a company or a chain of companies in a better and more efficient way, that's what a control tower should do. "We know that there is a lot of discussion about control towers. But we help companies to make the business case and even more important, help them to implement", says Carlo Peters, senior consultant at Buck Consultants International. »»

Eelco Dijkstra (44) has recently joined the international supply chain consultancy firm Buck Consultants International as Senior Consultant. Within the Supply Chain practice, Eelco Dijkstra will focus on advising clients on supply chain strategy and network design-challenges related notably to e-commerce retailing, distribution challenges in emerging markets and new go to market strategies. Within his extensive 20 year international career Eelco Dijkstra has worked in senior management positions in the Netherlands, Germany, New Zealand, Singapore and Spain and worked with companies such as Kuehne+Nagel, TNT Express, Europhia Consultancy and International Paper.


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Paris, London, Oxford, Berlin and Cambridge are the top 5 best cities in the European Tech Cities Ranking 2012, which Buck Consultants International presented at the MIPIM real estate exhibition in Cannes, France. Buck Consultants International analysed the competitive strengths of 31 European cities.
More and more international, technology driven companies establish new R&D centres in Europe in order to gain from the technology base and talent pools in Europe’s major cities. At the end of the day these companies want to accelerate the innovation process of new products and technologies within their companies.
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