Consumer Edge Research is the preeminent independent equity research boutique focused on the global consumer staples group, including the beverages, food, cosmetics, household and personal care and tobacco sectors. We generate non-consensus alpha-generating ideas combining uniquely thorough, primary research with years of perspective covering our sectors, access, and the highest service levels.
Consumer Edge Research brings you the perspective and insights that comes from years of deep industry expertise and long-standing relationships with company management and industry experts. Our work is supported by extensive industry relationships developed over two decades.
Non-consensus alpha-generating ideas, supported by detailed written reports, which include:
and an unmatched investment in supporting data. We believe our data gathered from global syndicated sources are not replicated by any competing platform or service, and we also conduct thorough proprietary primary research surveys, channel checks and other unique data collection. The key is knowing which data to pursue, and having the years of perspective and insights to use it effectively.
We provide our clients with access to managements and to industry participants and experts, via field trips, in-office visits and conference calls. And we will also feature a yearly conference delivering interactive access and Q&A.
We offer information and consulting studies and reports to the industry and their financial services advisors, their suppliers, distributors and retailers.
Tailored coverage and service: We offer a high level of service and responsiveness by keeping a tight client list. Our encrypted reports and estimates are not distributed broadly on third party platforms to anyone other than our clients.
We have the ability to run custom projects on behalf of clients, mining our deep access to data and the insights to make sense of it.
And salespeople focused on the sector and fully dedicated to our limited set of clients, delivering better informed calls, due to expertise and depth of knowledge of both our clients and product.
Our team has over 80 years of combined experience in the consumer and financial services industries.
CEO Bill Pecoriello, was a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley for the past 7 years, #1 ranked for 6 years and Top 2 for 11 years in beverages. COO John Argenti has 15 years of equity sales experience, the past 10 at Morgan Stanley as a Managing Director and sales manager. Our sector specialist Kurt Meyerhoff has 10 years of buyside experience in global consumer staples. Our team includes sector professionals with years of experience: Brett Cooper (beverages; Morgan Stanley and Bernstein), Peter Reidhead (HPC; consulting at Monitor Group), Rob Dickerson (Food; Alliance, Morgan Stanley) and Rob Russell (sales; Morgan Stanley).
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Consumer Edge Research is not a broker dealer, so does not trade or carry proprietary positions with firm capital in any covered or other stocks. We have fully flexible payment mechanisms available to our institutional clients, including CSA and CCAs in place with all larger broker dealers and execution-only firms in the US and several in London.