Food packaging design missteps could cost you! Whether you are a new product, an up-and-coming product, or have been on the shelves for years—you may be making some monumental mistakes with your food packaging design that could cost you in the end. New Products: Are you struggling with where to start with your food packaging…
Good Food Expo Get On the Shelf Panel: What Are Food Buyers Looking For? That was the first question at the “Get On The Shelf” panel at the Good Food Expo held mid-March 2019 at the University of Illinois Chicago west loop campus. I was invited to act as the moderator for this panel which…
Clean Label Marketing and Brand Transparency If you watched the Big Game, even while simultaneously doing your taxes (yeah, the game was THAT good) You may have noticed the Bud Light commercials. They called out their competitors for using corn syrup in their beer, while they refrain from using that ingredient. This “clean label” trend…
Big national food brands know: Marketing is everything. And they make it look easy. “Big Food” has the budget to hire top CPG and Food & Beverage branding agencies. They purchase consumer trends reports. They hold focus groups and conduct brand research to hone their messaging and visual branding. Big Food knows appearances mean everything. A walk…
It’s a market-driven world. Products are bought, not sold…especially at places like the grocery or convenience store shelf where customers confront your packaging head on. And since there’s no salesperson standing there on your behalf, your packaging is going to have to do all the talking. In these moments, your packaging needs to be about: Creating…
Local food brands are trending and sales are rising. Recent trips through grocery stores in the South and Northeast show that supermarkets are working hard to capitalize on the trending popularity of local food brands. Walking through the peanut butter section in Market 32, the rebranded Price Chopper store in upstate New York, we found it…
Use Consumer Confusion to Your Advantage According to a recent Nielsen survey, only four in 10 consumers admit to even a partial understanding of nutrition labeling. And that’s not to say anything about their distrust in what they do understand—namely, all the marketing “blasters” food companies slap on their packaging. You’ve seen them. Knowing that they…
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.