Legrand
Legrand is a company based out of France which designs and manufactures luxury lighting, light switches, and electronics. They had recently completed the acquisition of several smaller competitors and were tasked with integrating them into Legrand. We were hired to help with the integration strategy and execution of the merger. After extensive market research we developed a strategy roadmap for implementation, which included forming a new division “Legrand Industrial Design” (LID). It was important that these companies be able to innovate quickly, since this was principal reason they were acquired. For this reason, LID would be independent, and govern themselves. Making them independent would free them from the constraints of corporate bureaucracy, and allow flexibility to adapt to quickly changing market dynamics. Along with a sea of strategy documents, a slide presentation was developed to communicate the strategy roadmap to Legrand corporate, and to memorialize the outline of the implementation process. The merger took about 18 months to complete and is running successfully.
