Win the Sale with CPG Private Label Food Packaging It’s no secret that retail grocery private label brand’s sales are skyrocketing. Sure, that can mean competition from the very store shelf you hope to sell your food brand. Or it could mean an opportunity for the growth-minded food company looking for sales in multiple channels….
Dysfunctional Sales and Marketing Communication? A tired cliché The year was 2001. As a naîve marketing team intern with a local radio station, I was eagerly sitting in on my first ever monthly sales and marketing meeting. At the table sat a mix of veteran salespeople and then the programming/marketing team. As the meeting progressed,…
Will Your Food Brand Need an Investor Pitch Deck? Investor pitch decks draw from many of the same concepts we advise you to include in your food buyer pitch decks. The main difference is that instead of getting on the food retail shelf, you are asking for funding—or a cash infusion. One thing investors have…
See the Shelf: Top Retail Planogram Sales Tools A retail planogram (POG) exists to maximize sales. Retail food buyers are graded on how much sales volume is generated by the mix of products they set in the POG. If you own a food brand and want in that retail planogram, you better come prepared to sell. Typically…
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Here’s the Hard Truth Regarding Food Sales Presentations Want to get into the retail chains? Do you have a compelling food sales presentation? Do you assume so, but you’re not getting contracts? You might be doing these 4 common pitfalls in your food sales presentation. They may seem shockingly obvious, but nonetheless, they happen too…
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In a time of online shopping and trendy foods, grocery stores need to be able to adapt. Now that shopping can be made convenient in so many different ways, what can grocery stores do to keep up with the times? In the past few years, there has been an effective solution: small-format grocery stores. So,…
Find A Great Food Co-Packer Fit So I get emails like this every few weeks. Start-up food companies trying “start-up” the learning process behind about finding an excellent food co-packing manufacturer fit to land on my Vetting A Co-Packer Q&A series from our Nov ’18 Emerging Brands Conference. Imagine their disappointment when they find out…
To identify and isolate areas for improvement in shopper marketing program strategies and tactics to further your CPG brand growth against set KPIs:
This shopper marketing audit will detail and contrast your CPG brand shopper marketing and messaging versus that of industry standard competitive practices and will include, but not limited to:
Marketing Communication Audit Report
The deliverable will be a white paper with NewPoint Marketing findings and recommendations related to marketing activities in one retail partnership or DMA/market as defined by the client.
Brant brings 20+ years of experience to NewPoint as chief brand communicator and marketing-plan contributor.
Brant’s specialty is bringing an outside, investigative perspective that can feel alternately “rigorous” or “exasperating” depending on your point of view. Yet, he never fails to uncover a business’s unique selling proposition—one which can serve as a brand foundation for marketing that is compelling, creative and “sticky.”
Throughout his career, Brant’s applied his skill set to a broad range of business applications along the food supply-and-service chain. His services have provided vital clarity for all types of operations, from the more conventional food and food equipment manufacturers to the adjacent enterprises that partner with them, such as the Purdue University College of Agriculture.
Food industry marketing expertise—from retail to food-service and food-service equipment— is a natural outcome of having deep knowledge in every facet of a business’ operation. With 10 years in branding and business development, preceded by 15 years in mass media and promotions, Stephanie is an FMI Emerge mentor, holds an executive-level expertise in sales, marketing, media, and production management.
This exceptionally diverse skill set adds value for NewPoint clients by providing a full complement of perspectives on food-industry brand management endeavors.
Wired for a hawkish attention to detail while also maintaining a high-resolution view of the big picture, Stephanie is uniquely able to provide astute branding direction and simultaneously apply the business principles necessary to squeeze more bang out of every marketing buck.
A member of the Forbes Agency Council and quoted in the New York Times, USA Today and Adweek, Patrick Nycz is the author of Moving Your Brand Up the Food Chain: Marketing Strategies to Grow Local and Regional Food Brands. He is an FMI Emerge mentor, an American Advertising Federation’s Silver Medal Award winner, and the Founding President of NewPoint Marketing, a full-service food industry marketing firm focused on food industry brands On a mission to grow.
Patrick’s vision for NewPoint emerged from his team’s success using this proven model for food industry clients and is fueled by NewPoint-funded food buyers and food manufacturers research around tracking consumer, industry, and ongoing food trends.
Since starting her 20-year career in commercial graphic design at one of the foremost catalog retailers in the world, Kristy’s visual branding skills have organically narrowed into the food-industry niche.
In that time, she’s directed graphic identities for snack food and restaurant startups, print materials for multiple agricultural seed companies, display graphics and merchandiser signage for major food-equipment manufacturers and everything in between.
Today, as one of the key brand architects for NewPoint clients, she continues to lead our visual research & development team, always working to find the innovative median between the best practices worth honoring and the accepted rules worth breaking.