A professional, confidential, comparative analysis of your farm, the enterprises or key costs to assess how well your business is performing against others. The Service Benchmarking is a means of measuring your own business financial and physical performance against a range of other data, allowing you the opportunity to improve management of the business. Benchmarking is often used as part of a whole farm appraisal, within a contract farming operation or undertaken as an individual exercise. An opportunity to compare your business performance against others A comparison of similar size or type of businesses An assessment of enterprise gross or net margins Comparison of yields, variable or fixed costs

Why Brown & Co?

Our consultants are experienced in arable, livestock, vegetable, root, horticultural or diversification sectors. With many years experience in advising businesses of all types and sizes we have a detailed knowledge required to advise you.

• We have a detailed knowledge of the sector
• Experience with both large or small businesses
• Access to a large range of comparable information both locally and across the region
• We take a critical and impartial view in assessing the business
• We are experienced, expert and value for money

How you benefit

A benchmarking analysis provides a platform to identify strengths and weaknesses. It could result in identifying areas where improvements are possible or a platform for change.

• Identify strengths and weaknesses within a business
• Save costs
• Improve profitability
• Empower decision makers, allowing informed decisions to be made based on knowledge and understanding, not gut feel

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