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Top 25 Food industry management consultants based in Chicago, United States

Name: Food industry management consultants based in Chicago, United States
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 28, 2026 233 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 233 food industry management consultants headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026 and tracks 12,843 professional contacts across them, including 5,378 with verified work emails. Across the United States, New York is the largest hub for this category (296 companies); Chicago follows with 233.

This list covers food industry management consultants headquartered in Chicago, United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 28, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 28, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

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12,843Contacts tracked

5,378Verified emails

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The 25 largest food industry management consultants based in Chicago, United States

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 233 food industry management consultants based in Chicago, United States, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 28, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to food industry management consultants: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	Kearney	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	5,001-10,000	6,978 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “As one of the original firms, we’ve never lost sight of the fact that consulting is a people business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
2	HAVI	Strong evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	10001+	2,661 contacts →
	Strong evidence “HAVI, part of Morgan Street Holdings, a Chicago-based company and private investment group, is a global leader in integrated supply chain management for the food industry…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
3	DLC	Strong evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	201-500	546 contacts →
	Strong evidence “DLC is an award-winning industry leader in Finance, Accounting, Program Management & Process Improvement Consulting.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
4	Aarete	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	201-500	543 contacts →
	Partial evidence “AArete is a global management and technology consulting firm specializing in driving profitability improvement, digital transformation, and strategy & change for clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
5	Weaver Consultants Group	Strong evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	201-500	382 contacts →
	Strong evidence “From its inception in 1991, Weaver Consultants Group has been founded upon the tenets of attentive and responsive customer service, strong project management, and solid internal…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
6	Accretive Solutions	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	501-1,000	217 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Your World.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
7	Technomic, INC	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	51-200	159 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Technomic Inc, an Informa company, was founded as a management consulting firm in 1966.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
8	Diamond Management & Technology Consultants	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	501-1,000	114 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Diamond is a management and technology consulting firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
9	CGN Global	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	201-500	104 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “A Chicago-based firm with offices in Mexico, the UK, France, Turkey, India, and China, providing supply chain, digital, strategy and transformation consulting services to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
10	Gibson Consulting	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	51-200	75 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Gibson Consulting is a Chicago-based Supply Chain Consulting Firm that has served global clients in over 100 countries for 35 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
11	The Keystone Group	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	63 contacts →
	Partial evidence “The Keystone Group is a results-oriented management consulting firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
12	Liberty Advisor Group	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	201-500	48 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Liberty Advisor Group is now a Resultant company, uniting senior-led strategic advisory with a 300+-person technical engine to turn complex business challenges into measurable…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
13	Echelon Consulting, L.L.C	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	37 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Echelon Consulting, LLC.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
14	PLG Consulting	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	37 contacts →
	Partial evidence “PLG Consulting \| Supply Chain Strategy & Logistics Optimization Practical Solutions for the Industrial Economy For over 20 years, PLG Consulting has delivered practitioner-led…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
15	Voyage Advisory	Strong evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	33 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Voyage’s team of management consultants work side-by-side with leaders to achieve their top objectives and solve their toughest problems.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
16	CTS Impact	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	51-200	29 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “CTS Impact is a hands-on business consulting firm focused on delivering practical solutions to complex business issues in the areas of Finance, IT and Human Resources.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
17	ESA	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	26 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Precision-Tuned Foodservice Solutions: Expert support and strategic guidance, precisely when your brand needs it.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
18	Blue Star Partners	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	20 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Blue Star Partners is a management consulting firm focused on change management, leadership development, project management and organizing for innovation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
19	Saphineia Manufacturing Partners	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	16 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Manufacturing a safe, quality food or beverage product, cost-effectively, every day is hard.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
20	Whole Brain Consulting Food & Beverage Industry Experts	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	14 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Whole Brain Consulting, your outsourced operations experts.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
21	Sagin, LLC	Indirect evidence	Chicago, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	51-200	13 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We help companies grow, change and create measurable results.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
22	NEW Venture Advisors LLC	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	1-10	13 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Since 2009 we have worked with clients in the public, private and social sectors to assess, design, launch and build up businesses in the local food and sustainable agriculture…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
23	Lake Shore Associates, INC	Partial evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	13 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Lake Shore Associates (LSA) is a certified woman-owned management consulting firm that provides strategic, unbiased, and objective advisory and delivery services to improve an…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
24	Creative Hospitality Concepts, INC	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	51-200	13 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Restaurant consulting and development company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026
25	Foodintransit	Indirect evidence	Chicago, IL, United StatesHQ checked Sep 28, 2026	11-50	12 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Our vision is to create a more transparent and collaborative supply chain that allows our customers and their stakeholders to make better decisions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 28, 2026

RevenueBase Smart Search

RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: food industry management consultants. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.

Strong evidence: The company's own public description of its business names food industry management consultants.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of food industry management consultants, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name food industry management consultants. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.

RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.

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Food industry management consultants based in Chicago, United States at a glance

As of Sep 28, 2026

41.9%Verified-email coverage

55.1Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

Sep 28, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

165

11-50

51-200

201-500

501-1,000

1,001-5,000

5,001-10,000

10001+

Email recency for this list is measured across the whole United States list rather than for Chicago, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Chicago, over 233 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among food industry management consultants, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source: The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies: Companies headquartered in Chicago, United States whose own description of what they do matches “food industry management consultants”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search: RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names food industry management consultants), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude: Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among food industry management consultants, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Chicago are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality: In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking: Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification: Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 5,378 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh: This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 28, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections: Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.

Food industry management consultants by metro in the United States

Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names food industry management consultants, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many food industry management consultants are there based in Chicago, United States?

RevenueBase identified 233 food industry management consultants headquartered in Chicago, United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

Kearney, headquartered in Chicago, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city in the United States has the most food industry management consultants?

New York leads the United States with 296 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (233) and Atlanta (199).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 5,378 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 233 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 28, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.