Strategic M&A and integration

Acquisitions succeed or fail in the integration. When a deal is done, the challenge moves from the spreadsheet to the factory floor, the boardroom and the balance sheet.

BM&T supports organisations through strategic M&A and integration efforts - delivering clarity, coordination and commercial alignment across functions, geographies and leadership teams. We work behind the scenes to align management, realise synergies, and navigate cultural and operational risk during post-merger execution.

Key challenges we address

Failure to capture post-deal synergies
Cultural or leadership misalignment post-acquisition
Overlapping operations, teams or supply chains across borders
Lack of integration readiness or on-the-ground execution planning
Slow or fragmented decision-making on post-deal rationalisation

Our approach

Integration design and planning: We build realistic, phased integration plans aligned to strategy, cost synergies and stakeholder sensitivity.
Operational and leadership consolidation: We assess management structures, headcount, locations and workflows to unify operations without destabilising the business.
Site-level execution of change: We lead location closures, production transfers, team consolidation and restructuring with minimal disruption and full governance.
Cross-border risk-management: We manage labour, regulatory and cultural dynamics across jurisdictions - from compliance to people optics.
Value-realisation tracking: We measure and embed cost and performance synergies, ensuring they convert to P&L impact.

Why BM&T?

We operate at the point of integration: We’re not M&A advisors - we’re the team that delivers what the model promised.
Hands-on, location-by-location: We’ve delivered change across 40+ sites in a single engagement, with control and discretion.
Stakeholder-fluent across borders: From Iceland to Slovakia, we handle local nuance with central clarity.
Low ego, high accountability: We work quietly, lead firmly and ensure transitions land cleanly - from systems to people.
Respected by boards, trusted by management: We navigate integration politics and people-risk with fairness, confidence and clear judgement.

BM&T supported RPC, a FTSE 250 manufacturer of rigid plastic containers, following its acquisition of Promens - a pan-European plastic packaging group headquartered in Iceland with 40+ global locations.

RPC / Promens

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