Why Plastic Alternatives? Plastic was considered a technological miracle for many decades. This material is used for practically everything imaginable, from the packaging of food to the pipes that run through our walls since it is ridiculously inexpensive, simple, and easy to create while still maintaining its flexibility and durability. Although plastic is still inexpensive…
You could build your food brand the hard way. Invest a lot of blood, sweat and tears (aka brand development, market testing and advertising spend) into becoming a household name. It may work, and you may reap the ROI that comes with being #1 in your category. Or you could go the anonymous route. Manufacture…
As consumers become more environmentally conscious, the demand for eco-friendly products continues to grow. Food manufacturers are no exception to this trend, and you’ll need to adapt to meet your customers’ expectations. Eco-friendly packaging is a crucial aspect of sustainable food manufacturing, and hiring a seasoned agency like NewPoint to guide you through this process…
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Your Brand Core Values Increasingly, consumers are consciously making purchasing decisions based on brand core values, or the ethics of the products and brands available to them. So it’s not just about the taste of your food or the style of your brand; it’s also about the practices your company follows, the messages it communicates, and…
Food and Beverage Branding Agency adds Value to Your Brand Branding is one of the most powerful tools in your arsenal for building your company’s reputation, improving the visibility and sales of your food and beverage products, and bolstering your chances of long-term success. With the help of a food and beverage branding agency, you…
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,The third and final round of the 2020 food packaging rebrand review is here! Opinions courtesy of your NewPoint Marketing Team, and photos curated by Newhope. If you haven’t already, you might be interested in reading part 1 and part 2 As a quick reminder, I formulated my opinion, and sent the article on to art…
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.