The Essence of Creative Food Branding Creative branding has become the secret ingredient for success in today’s fiercely competitive food industry. For marketing professionals steering food brands, understanding the nuances of creative branding is crucial to carving out a distinctive identity in a saturated market. Creative branding in the food industry goes beyond eye-catching logos…
The Evolution of Great Food Packaging The evolution of great food packaging reflects broader societal changes, technology, and consumer behavior. Packaging continues to evolve from its humble beginnings as a functional necessity to its current role as a key marketing tool and environmental statement. As we look towards the future, it’s clear that the journey…
Beyond Aesthetics & the Importance of Food Brand Packaging In today’s highly competitive food industry, the significance of food brand packaging cannot be overlooked. Beyond merely serving as a container for products, packaging plays a pivotal role in capturing consumer attention, conveying brand values, ensuring product safety, enhancing user experience, and fostering memorable experiences. In…
What is Brand Strategy: Critical Planning to Grow Your Business NewPoint Marketing is a marketing firm that specializes in helping food and beverage brands with their marketing and branding strategies. We offer a range of services that are specifically designed to help these types of brands succeed in a highly competitive industry by answering the…
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…
,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…
Round 2 of 3 of the 2020 food packaging rebrand review, opinions courtesy of your NewPoint Marketing Team, and Newhope photos are curated. If you haven’t already, you might be interested in reading part 1. As a quick reminder, I formulated my opinion and sent the article to our art director, Kristy, to get her…
Packaging Gone Wrong I was inspired [told] to write this blog about product line differentiation by fellow design-partner-in-crime, Ashley Morgan. After much scuttlebutt in the office over the contents two K-Cups in particular in our kitchenette. I had no choice. I had to write about it. The contenders in today’s battle are both from the…
Brand packaging so pretty it inspired this designer to want to write about it! Or sing, if I could. I can’t—nobody wants to hear that. A design that is so simple, yet I could go on for days about it! Where to start? The stark contrast of the black, bold san serif font against a…
Beautiful Beer Packaging by Goose Island I know, I know, another beer blog. I can’t help what inspires me! Unlike my previous blog about Busch Light’s brand growth, I’m getting back in my lane and talking about Goose Island’s beer packaging and visuals. A few weeks ago, I was perusing the beer aisle at the…
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.