Maple Automotive.

Strategy & Advisory Services

Growth.

  • Unlike the traditional consultancies, we don't just define the growth path on paper, we work alongside you to deliver it.

    Whether its portfolio expansion, operational efficiency levers or working capital optimisation, our team have the expertise to help you navigate and deliver it.

  • Too many strategies are lost in the thinking and difficult to deploy. We work closely with you to ensure a lasting playbook for how the strategic direction feeds into operational delivery across the entire portfolio.

    What makes us unique is our 'Ventures' experience. We know how to build equity and value.

  • Compliance and risk controls are increasingly important for modern business.

    We run enterprise level risk assessments, crisis management planning and response, business continuity planning and also cyber and digital risk management (also covering ISO27001 certification).

    Unlike traditional risk auditing, we have a commercial mindset to join the outcomes/findings with tangible business delivery plans and quantified fiscal upsides.

Market Entry.

  • Delivering data backed market sizing with the rigor and interogation to ensure cost effective decision making.

    Too often, this stage of quantifying the market opportunity is vague and open to significant deviations during execution.

    We work with you to create scenario models, bringing in external data sets and combining them with your internal data to create accurate, multi-layered scenario models that aid decision making and commercial adjustment.

  • Supporting OEMs and dealer groups to enter new markets successfully.

    By creating the right deployment strategies and entry plans across unit volumes, network footprint, service/parts and more, we support government activities and legal/regulatory readiness; something that is critical to any successful market entry/expansion.

  • Our vast network enables us to match like minded partners to enable success.

    Whether it’s an OEM looking for the right distribution partner or a Dealer Group looking to diversify it’s portfolio into other services, we can support you through the entire end to end process.

  • Our experience and relationships go across the UK, Europe and GCC region.

    This expertise and contact network means we can often accelerate decision making and ensure that the right analysis and facts are on the table for every step of setup.

Mobility.

  • We are one of the few businesses with hands on EV market entry in the GCC region (including BYD in Saudi Arabia, BYD and Polestar in the UAE, Charge2Moov with the Al Futtaim Group and DEWA charging strategy.

    This is a complex space and contacts are crucial. Whether you are an OEM looking to establish an EV footprint or a dealer group looking to position yourself as the ideal distributor for EV mobility, we can support you in getting the right footprint, infrastructure plan and overall EV operational readiness to make it profitable, successful and with reduced risk.

  • We support with end to end infrastructure setup and readiness, covering:

    • Site assessments

    • Feasibility studies

    • Commercials & returns

    • Planning & design

    • Regulations & permits

    • Incentives assistance

    • Funds sourcing

    • Hardware

    • Software & data

    • Energy management

    • Operational readiness

    • Ongoing service management

  • The correct urban planning around mobility is a crucial component to the overall global ambition and activity for decarbonisation.

    We support private enterprises and governments across a range of areas such as:

    • Data intelligence

    • Market sizing

    • Economic analysis

    • Project management

    • Site analysis

    • Urban plan design

    • Green planning

    • Digital infrastructure

    • Transport planning

    • Policy and zoning

    • Community engagement

    • Commercial partnerships

  • Governments know that we need to get more people out of individual mobility (eg cars) and into more sustainable, efficient, reliable and effective public mobility.

    We are a long way away from this being a reality at this stage. Our team support governments and private enterprises, bringing together the right ideas with the right funding structures and government policy.

    Our services include:

    • Analysis and sizing

    • Transport planning

    • Monetisation strategy

    • Mobility as a service

    • Infrastructure planning

    • Policy advisory

    • Impact assessments

    • Partnership brokerage

    • Community engagement

  • Across all parts of the business, decarbonisation is a critical focus area. We go heavy on data and tracking in this area to ensure rigor.

    Our support and expertise covers:

    • Carbon footprint assessment

    • Energy efficiency (inc ISO5001)

    • Decarbonisation strategy

    • Renewables

    • Sustainability reporting

    • Carbon offsetting

  • We are big advocates for an end to end decarbonisation strategy, but we fully understand where this cannot get businesses to their complete decarbonisation targets.

    To complement a wider decarbonisation plan, we offer support in:

    • Decarbonisation roadmap

    • Market trend analysis

    • Carbon credit cost efficiency

    • Carbon credit generation

    • Compliance support

    • Reporting/tracking services

    • Training & education

Ventures.

  • We are not all about charging fees. Where we see value in an idea or direction we will co-invest and nurture it together with our partners in areas such as sports/media rights, technology solutions, data, sustainable mobility and more.

  • M&A investment strategy, working capital optimisation and EBIT growth, helping OEMs, dealer groups and service providers to sustainably maximise profitability and business value