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…
How important is ROI for social media? Social media ROI. We’re all obsessed with it. We blog about it constantly. In our last post, we showed you how to calculate real using actual math. But maybe we should be a little less obsessed. Here’s why: First, if you’re treating ROI as a goal, stop it…
Yes, you can find social media ROI with ACTUAL MATH First, keep in mind that social media ROI (Return On Investment) is not the goal. It is a measure of efficiency. The purpose of ROI to help make decisions. Focus on business goals first (are you generating the leads you want, getting the shopping cart…
The Fight Against Covid-19 Spread Had to Start in the Food Industry I am a member of the Forbes Agency Council. One of the perks is that I am invited to “pitch” article ideas if they are relevant and can add to a more substantial marketing conversation. To that end, I’m sharing an article I…
One in three US consumers are looking for foods that will help them achieve weight loss or weight management goals. Products marketed as “natural”, “healthy” and “better for you” are capturing the food industry. Now more than ever, people are connecting functional foods with longer, healthier lifespans and acting on it. Consumers are becoming more…
Growth-Minded Food Brands: Bob’s Red Mill—Foodservice Sales Domination At NewPoint, we talk to several food companies, and almost all have a strong desire to sell and grow. Many of these food companies, big and small, seem to think a strong CPG (consumer product & goods) retail is the top goal. Brand = Margin I am…
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…
Foodservice distributor lead generation programs convert distributors to order-takers A robust food marketing plan cannot begin and end with consumer marketing. Yes, consumer marketing is essential, and truely effective programs can create amazing results in sales. But any excellent consumer marketing program begins with a well-thought-out business to business (B2B) marketing strategy. NewPoint is a…
Food Service Sales: Get a distributor to carry your product…or “Get on the Truck” Strategies NewPoint is a team of marketers who understand that volume sales in B2B channels can increase the volume of ingredients to purchase – typically bringing pricing down as well as optimizes production whether you have a stand-alone operation or use…
Grow sales (and margins) with foodservice channel marketing programs Consumer marketing is the primary thing I hear when folks find out I own a marketing firm. Yes, we create and run consumer marketing programs for our food brand clients. We do a great job, but any consumer marketing program begins with a business to business…
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.