Industries

Across every subsector of aerospace and defense—including commercial aviation, space, defense, and government services—we help leaders solve their most challenging problems and emerge stronger than ever. 

We work closely with vehicle manufacturers, suppliers, retailers, technology companies and mobility service providers to develop breakthrough strategies that help you achieve the full potential of your business. 

We work with companies across the full spectrum of forest products, paper and packaging, helping them develop future-proof strategies, pursue cost and capital efficiencies, and employ a range of automation and digitalization technologies to optimize every facet of their operations. 

Our global network of experts can help you accelerate digital innovation, transform cost structures, reinvent your manufacturing capabilities, and bring more resilience to your supply chains and procurement programs. 

We combine deep expertise in digital transformation, Industry 4.0, advanced analytics, cost transformation, organizational design and other disciplines to help you develop and execute a winning strategy. 

 Across hundreds of client engagements around the world, our real estate consulting expertise has played a pivotal role in helping leaders in residential, commercial, and industrial real estate stay ahead amid relentless competition. 

 Our deep expertise across transportation, logistics and digitally enabled mobility ensures that your organization keeps people—and the things people depend on—moving more efficiently than ever. 

Wealth, asset management and private banking institutions need to be at the top of their game to satisfy the expectations of a sophisticated clientele. We work closely with companies across the sector on a wide range of strategic and operational enhancements, to insure you're positioned to provide the highest quality asset management, investment advice and financial planning services, so your clients meet their financial goals. 

 As investment in fintech reaches an all-time high, we help you capitalize on the opportunity. We bring the flexible delivery of a start-up with the benefits of one of the world’s most experienced organizations to help you design, develop, and scale your fintech solution. 

We work closely with stock exchanges, clearinghouses, fintechs, custody and security services, and payments infrastructure companies to ensure their operations are optimized to address the many value chain activities that support buy- and sell-side market participants. 

With more than 250 engagements across every region and sector of the industry, our agriculture experts have the experience to help you grow sustainably, transform your cost structure, or update your operating model. We work alongside agribusiness clients to anticipate industry disruptions, become more innovative, and implement proven solutions. 

We show leading chemical companies how to innovate, adapt, and reach their full potential. In more than 150 engagements we’ve worked in every major subsector, including petrochemicals, organic and inorganic base chemicals, polymers and plastics, specialty and performance chemicals, agrochemicals, fine chemicals, and industrial biochemicals and biomaterials. 

 We combine deep global experience and cutting-edge methods to help you unlock value and achieve your full potential. Across more than 140 oil and gas consulting projects, we’ve helped clients transform into leaner, more agile organizations. Our experts apply unparalleled knowledge to a broad range of industry challenges, including price volatility, supply chain disruption, and the complex shift toward alternative energy sources. 

Across more than 20 projects we’ve helped clients in every sector of the utilities industry: power generators, electric and gas utilities, multi-utility conglomerates, renewable energy providers, energy trading companies, gas storage and distribution players, energy service companies, water utilities, retailers, and diversified global energy corporations. We are also leaders in putting waste management and recycling services at the center of a more circular economy. 

Cost pressures and the global impact of healthcare reform are just two of many challenges facing healthcare providers today. To gain and maintain a winning position you need the right strategy, supported by a carefully tailored operating model and a mastery of change management.  

 Innovative devices and products, integrated platforms, and digitally powered selling and service models are rapidly altering the MedTech landscape. We can help you chart the right strategy and execute it flawlessly. 

 We can help you improve share in flat-growth markets; build and buy into new, high-growth markets; improve your Medical Loss Ratio; deploy analytics to derive powerful insights from your data; improve member experiences; and turbo-charge automation. 

 We help grocery organizations across the industry ensure their strategy both realizes near-term results and positions them to win in the future.  

 As the preeminent thought leader in fashion and luxury goods we have helped hundreds of companies in every category tailor winning strategies to gain a competitive edge. 

 The pace of innovation in the restaurant industry has accelerated. Rapid shifts in consumer behavior and digital technology are forcing companies to reinvent every facet of the business. 

 As retail thought leaders, we’ve always had our fingers on the pulse of the industry’s evolution. Today we see signs of a new retail convergence, as emerging winners combine the perfect execution of retail incumbents with the innovative power of digital natives. Our retail consulting teams can show you how to disrupt your own business and evolve in anticipation of new disruptions. 

 Freight and logistics historically have been a fragmented, shifting industry that is highly dependent upon materials demand and driven by GDP growth.  

 Bain has completed hundreds of projects to improve performance for passenger transportation companies in all major markets. 

A powerful, data-driven solution that puts consumers at the heart of your growth strategy. Discover how the Driven Business Accelerator can help you break free from a category view of the world, refocus on consumers’ needs, grow and nurture brands through multi-year value creation plans, and much more. 

Navigate the tectonic shifts in retail to accelerate growth. We work with you across five distinct pillars of commercial excellence, to identify the true sources of value and deliver on them. We also help you transform your organizational operating model and enhance your technology capabilities to support your commercial excellence strategy. 

Become a digital performance leader by fusing technology, data and organizational design. We help hundreds of CPG companies develop best-in-class digital strategies that direct your investments to the priority initiatives that will generate the most value. 

We work with property owners, REITs, service providers and a wide range of other players to maximize their value, shape their growth strategies, and become more innovative. 

 We have helped the leading institutional investors and sovereign wealth funds develop top-performing investment programs across private equity, real estate, and infrastructure asset classes. 

 We can help you break through the noise and achieve a sustainable competitive edge.   Our deep media and entertainment consulting expertise will help you sharpen your D2C strategy, identify growth opportunities, achieve deeper customer engagement, and support your M&A strategy. 

 We can help you navigate this fast-changing landscape and master the digital technologies and commercial capabilities that will enable you to compete, innovate, and grow. Our metals consulting experts work in every global region, helping many of the world’s top performing extractors and manufacturers of aluminum, gold, copper, iron, steel, and rare elements achieve the operational efficiencies that power breakthrough results.