What Albert & Co does

Albert & Co is a French industrial purchasing consultancy (cabinet de conseil en achats) founded in 2015 in Lyon, operating under a "By purchasers, for purchasers" philosophy. The firm exclusively targets the procurement function and serves industrial clients across all company sizes — large international groups, SMEs, and start-ups — in verticals including energy, nuclear, automotive, aerospace, watchmaking, agri-food, maritime transport, soft mobility, domotics, and environment. Its service catalogue covers strategic purchasing audits and maturity assessments, project-based purchasing execution (sourcing, panel setup), supplier pooling and externalisation, customised training, interim purchasing management, and a dedicated CSR/sustainable purchasing offer (RSE/Achats Responsables) launched in 2021 and aligned with ISO 20400.

The firm relies on a senior-consultant delivery model rather than proprietary software. Underlying intellectual property consists of codified purchasing methodologies — Purchasing Maturity Assessment frameworks, Kraljic-based segmentation matrices, Pareto-driven supplier criticality analysis, RSE decision matrices, and a 30-hour sustainable-purchasing training curriculum — which are reused across engagements. Since the June 2024 strategic rapprochement with Fortil Group, consultants tap into a group-level knowledge management system providing access to more than 350 cross-disciplinary experts in purchasing and engineering.

Albert & Co is private, headquartered in Lyon (legal seat: 20c boulevard Eugène Deruelle, 69003 Lyon), and operates through offices in Grenoble, Paris, Nantes, Belfort, Strasbourg, Annecy, Nyon (Switzerland), Bruxelles (Belgium), and Montreal (Canada, under the brand Albert Inc). It reports 51-100 employees, is co-directed by Maëlle Bacot, Antoine Bazes, and Emilie Pinto, and makes money via quote-based professional services engagements (B2B sales-led, project or interim mandates) with no publicly disclosed pricing. As a subsidiary within Fortil Group, its revenue mechanics are those of a mid-sized specialist consultancy embedded in a larger diversified group.

Name

Albert & Co

Legal name

ALBERT&CO

Website

https://albertandco.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Albert & Co is a French industrial purchasing consultancy that provides strategic procurement, project management, supplier pooling, training, and CSR/sustainable purchasing advisory to industrial clients across multiple verticals and company sizes in France, Switzerland, Belgium, and Canada.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Procurement Consulting Services

NAICS

Management Consulting Services (54161), Other Management Consulting Services (541618)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Sourcing Support & RFx Administration (RFI/RFP/RFQ) (BPAAAJAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

Spend Analytics & Reporting Support (BPAAAJAJ)

Keywords

• Procurement consulting
• Strategic purchasing
• Industrial sourcing
• Sustainable procurement
• Supplier management

Headquarters

HQ city

Grenoble

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices11 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Strategic Purchasing Consulting: Core consulting services including strategic purchasing audits, rapid diagnosis, in-depth diagnosis, organizational analysis, and recommendations for purchasing department maturity development or creation of purchasing functions.
2. Project Management Consulting: Project-based consulting for sourcing, panel setup, and purchasing project execution across industrial sectors.
3. Training Services: Customized training offers to develop internal team skills in purchasing functions.
4. CSR/Sustainable Purchasing Advisory: Specialized consulting for sustainable purchasing strategy development, supplier audits, and responsible purchasing implementation.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Albert & Co is a French purchasing consultancy that helps industrial clients optimize their procurement function through strategic consulting, project management, training, pooling/outsourcing, and CSR/sustainable purchasing advisory. The firm serves industrial companies of all sizes (start-ups, SMEs, large international groups) across sectors such as energy, automotive, aerospace, watchmaking, agri-food, environment, and connected objects, leveraging Fortil Group's knowledge management system to access 350+ specialized experts.

Product overview

Albert & Co is a purchasing consulting firm (cabinet de conseil en achats) that offers a comprehensive suite of consulting services for industrial clients. The core offerings include strategic purchasing consulting, project management, pooling/outsourcing, training, and CSR/sustainable purchasing advisory. The company also provides interim management services for purchasing departments. These services are delivered through expert consultants who specialize in various industrial sectors and purchasing disciplines, helping clients optimize their procurement operations, reduce costs, and implement responsible purchasing practices.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Conseil en stratégie Achats (Strategic Purchasing Consulting) Strategic purchasing consulting services including audits, rapid and in-depth diagnosis, organizational analysis, and recommendations for developing purchasing department maturity or setting up a new purchasing function for industrial clients.
• Gestion de projet Achats (Project Management) Project-based consulting for sourcing activities, supplier panel setup, and procurement execution across industrial sectors. Covers project purchasing, series purchasing, commodity purchasing, spare parts purchasing, innovation purchasing, and contract purchasing.
• Mutualisation/Externalisation (Pooling/Outsourcing) Cost rationalization and supplier negotiation services to optimize purchasing efficiency through pooling and outsourcing strategies, including indirect procurement services for OPEX, transport, and CAPEX.
• Formation Achats (Training Services) Customized training programs to develop internal team competencies in purchasing functions and methodologies for industrial clients.
• Conseil RSE / Achats Responsables (CSR/Sustainable Purchasing Advisory) Sustainable purchasing and CSR consulting services including decision matrices with RSE criteria, responsible supplier sourcing, diagnostic methodology, and a 30-hour training program for sustainable purchasing.
• Management de transition (Interim Management) Interim management and restructuring services for purchasing departments facing leadership transitions or organizational changes.

Quantifiable outcome

• 23% financial gains in order negotiation for subcontracting project
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers12 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Fortil GroupcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAlbert & Co is part of Fortil Group, which brings together several specialist companies with complementary expertise and high growth potential. Albert & Co benefits from strong intra-group synergies while maintaining operational independence. The Group provides knowledge management systems, operational excellence resources, internal training programs, mentoring programs for directors and managers, and a culture of high-level collective intelligence. Albert & Co was founded in 2015 and joined the group to leverage these synergies while pursuing international development.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves9 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Bain & Company: Bain & Company's Operations practice includes procurement and supply chain advisory for large industrial groups; comparable in offering but with global reach and broader service portfolio than Albert & Co.
• Accenture: Accenture's Supply Chain & Operations practice delivers sourcing, procurement transformation and supplier sustainability at scale across Europe, competing for the same industrial mandates as Albert & Co via larger teams and tech-enabled delivery.
• Kearney: Kearney runs a well-established global procurement and supply chain practice serving large industrial groups, overlapping with Albert & Co's strategic purchasing mandates but at significantly larger scale and breadth.
• McKinsey & Company: McKinsey's Operations and Procurement practice serves industrial clients on strategic sourcing and cost transformation, overlapping Albert & Co's value proposition as a much larger, broader generalist incumbent.
• Boston Consulting Group (BCG): BCG's Operations and Procurement Excellence practice advises on strategic sourcing, supplier risk and sustainability in procurement — comparable functional offerings to Albert & Co but at the top end of the enterprise client market.

Emerging players

• Keelvar: Keelvar provides sourcing optimisation software (SOP) for procurement teams, competing with the analytical/procurement-tech angle of Albert & Co's work and increasingly used by industrial clients for sourcing decisions that Albert & Co consults on.

Direct peers

• 4C Associates: 4C Associates is a UK-based specialist procurement, transformation and supply chain consultancy with similar boutique scale and a focus on industrial and mid-market clients comparable to Albert & Co.
• Efficio: Efficio is a dedicated procurement and supply chain consultancy operating across Europe and globally, with a similar boutique-to-mid-market positioning to Albert & Co and direct overlap in strategic sourcing and procurement transformation mandates.
• GEP Worldwide: GEP is a procurement and supply-chain consultancy and technology provider offering strategic sourcing, category management, and supplier management services, directly comparable to Albert & Co's sourcing, panel setup, and CSR supplier audit work.
• Proxima: Proxima is an independent procurement and operations consultancy working with large corporates on cost optimisation and purchasing transformation; highly comparable to Albert & Co's core strategic purchasing and project management offerings.

Market position

Strengths2 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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