Food Marketing Strategies: Navigating the New Terrain NewPoint Marketing clients competing in the mega mass market—from Walmart to Target, Amazon, and Kroger—face intense competition. They often utilize advanced food marketing strategies in their Go-to-Market playbook. Moreover, if you’re not at the top of the brand pile, it can be very frustrating. It is not uncommon…
Food Marketing Strategies to Boost Your Brand Awareness and Sales Time-tested food marketing strategies are crucial for brands to stand out and connect with consumers. It is also crucial to drive sales in a competitive marketplace. Effective marketing ensures your food brand is visible, memorable, and resonates with your target audience’s preferences and values. Through…
Understanding Food Marketing Companies: Services for CPG and B2B Good food marketing companies offers an array of marketing services for both consumers (CPG) and businesses (B2B), each with unique needs and objectives. This is vitally important since the food industry is a dynamic and evolving sector, where marketing plays a crucial role in navigating competitive…
Food and Beverage Consultant as an Agency Some decisions are easy. Hiring a food and beverage consultant is most likely not one of them. Deciding for your business can be intense, complicated, and stressful. Your decisions don’t just impact you; they affect your entire team and, sometimes, the whole business. On top of that, your choices…
Why a Brand Positioning Strategy? Every food product line needs a brand positioning strategy—a set of identity standards that define your business and make it more easily visible and understandable to your customers. But a brand isn’t something you build or establish wantonly; it’s something that requires objective data, strategic direction, and creativity to establish…
Food marketing in the modern era is both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, it’s revolutionary to have access to many distribution channels and communication channels you can use to reach your customers. But, on the other hand, there’s a better opportunity to connect with millions of people worldwide, and you can…
Food Industry Marketing Strategies Begin with Business-to-Business Marketing is any strategy that helps your company build brand awareness and bring your brand together with customers. There are four necessary steps to developing effective food industry marketing strategies, including: Know your audience and the competition. Develop a brand that is relevant to your audience and relative…
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.