Trade spend & retailer economics
Slotting, MCB, scan-back, freight allowance. The lines that quietly eat 15-25% of revenue.
Finance leadership for $10M–$200M consumer brands selling into grocery, mass, club, specialty and Amazon. Co-pack, broker, distributor, trade-spend management — the retail-led operating complexity that pure-play DTC brands have not had to live with.
Sector-specific. Every cpg & consumer brands engagement is built around these levers, not a generic CFO playbook.
Slotting, MCB, scan-back, freight allowance. The lines that quietly eat 15-25% of revenue.
When to in-source, when to co-pack, when to switch. Modeled with the real total cost.
Inventory, AR aging by retailer, deduction reserves. The reality of selling into mass retail.
When the parent owns multiple brands, the allocations that make individual P&Ls honest.
DTC + retail + Amazon + wholesale, modeled separately and rolled up.
Most CPG exits are strategic. The financial story they buy is different from a financial-buyer story.
We don't sell what we haven't run. Every engagement led by a partner who has been inside the function.
Two-decade operator. 50+ DTC and CPG engagements including a dozen sell-side processes. Scaled brands through Shopify Plus, retail expansion, and inventory-led growth pressure tests. Leads the consumer practice and exit-prep across $20–$100M operating brands.
Putra & Co APAC lead — Sydney, Melbourne, Singapore. Consumer-brand finance leadership across DTC, CPG, publishing and creative agencies. Sell-side processes, exit-prep and unit-economics rebuilds for operating brands across the region.
Capex-heavy finance background — joint-venture accounting, royalty modeling, working-capital cycles in commodity downturns. Latin America and North America. Leads resources (oil & gas, mining), consumer (CPG, DTC) and creative agencies in cyclical environments. Specializes in buy-side diligence and distressed-process M&A.
Chartered Accountant and corporate finance specialist. Experience spans London Stock Exchange Group as Nordic controller, XF1 modeling SaaS and renewable energy projects, and Eightx leading strategic finance for CPG clients. Focuses on identifying operational gaps, department-level metric alignment, and custom decision-support modeling.
$10–$200M, typically. Retail-led brands with operational complexity above pure-play DTC.
Matt Putra. Decade-plus in CPG operating roles before founding Putra & Co.
Yes — Whole Foods, Sprouts, Kroger, Target, Costco, Sams, Walmart. The deduction landscape and the working-capital cycles for each.
We work with brands expanding US → Canada, Australia → US, UK → US. Cross-border tax and entity structure is part of the work.
Yes. Most CPG retainers include a trade spend review in the first 90 days.