Creative Cooperation is a small and highly responsive Management Consultancy,

led by the founder Thomas Escher, together with a flexible network of independent specialists.

You get tailored, multi-disciplinary services for what you just really need, in a cost-effective way.

Your teams work alongside ours on in- and outside ideas, generating creative, lasting solutions, centered on your deep business knowledge and developing your own talent base. Together we build your strategy and capabilities to drive profitable growth.

Thomas Escher worked at Unilever in Personal Care and Home Care from 1984 to 2011

in Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, in local and international roles in strategic and operational Marketing and Sales positions.

For the last 12 years, Thomas has been partnering with Executive Boards and Management teams in Europe, developing tailored marketing and commercial solutions as an established independent Consultant. 

• Market studies and competitive scenarios to derive better strategies

• Strategic and operational portfolio management of categories, channels and brands results in stronger innovation, better resource allocation and sustainable profitable growth

• Integrated value chain management from new product development through supply chain to market deployment, aligning and focusing resources on key value drivers to increase profitability

• Development and design of the Marketing organisation, from roles and responsibilities to key operational processes and KPIs, to deliver faster growth through high effectiveness and efficiency

• Management of 3rd party relationships such as licensing, distribution and know how contracts extend the reach of the business

• M&A support from strategy to post-merger-integration accelerate synergies and growth  

Creative Cooperation has a flexible network of independent specialists, who are specifically selected to form an effective team for each individual project. Recent examples include:

• for a market study on Medical Nutrition, an experienced manager and consultant drove the vision and built contacts in the community

• for a brand architecture project, market researchers joined to develop a methodology to evaluate the brand stretch potential   

• for an open innovation project in HPC, an independent R&D specialist joined to review the innovation level and screen partnerships

• for an international marketing organisation project, a change management expert supported the implementation phase 

• for an M&A project in Consumer Health, an expert for pharmacies evaluated the performance of the target company in that channel

• for an export project to Germany, a leading retail and Private Label expert joined to define the strategy and prioritise the best options of market entry