Innovative Food Branding Strategies and the Balance of Indulgence and Health In the dynamic and ever-changing world of the food industry, food branding strategies today face a challenge. They must balance the intricate task of satisfying the consumer’s twin cravings for indulgence and wellness. As we navigate this multifaceted landscape, pioneering branding approaches are crucial….
Drive Food Brand Growth with CPG Marketing Innovation In the world of Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), most companies are looking for aggressive growth. If you can reach more people, you can sell more products, and if you can sell more products, you can generate more revenue, ultimately supporting the company for years to come. One…
CPG Marketing Innovation Key to Food Brand Growth In the world of Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), most companies are looking for aggressive growth. If you can reach more people, you can sell more products, and if you can sell more products, you can generate more revenue, ultimately supporting the company for years to come. One of…
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Strategies, Ideas, and Tips for Marketing Your Food and Beverage Business Your food and beverage business faces a number of unique challenges, including stiff competition from other similar brands and limited profit margins that keep your budget restricted. So how can you stand out from competing brands and maximize your appeal to potential consumers while…
Leverage Online Sales Opportunity: Food Brand E-commerce Optimization Food Brand E-commerce Optimization is key Growing Shopping Experience There is no better time to launch a food brand to add e-commerce & an online storefront to their website. The 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic impact: Online grocery sales reached $5.30 billion in April, beating a record of $4.00…
The Retail Food Buyer Wants to Hear this Question from CPG Food Brands We ask the retail food buyer questions, so you don’t have to. This was kind of a hot-button question with most the retail food buyer. “How can CPG (consumer packaged goods) food brands partner for future growth?” and “What product innovations are…
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.