Packaging Strategy to Win on the Retail Shelf: A Guide for Food Brands A little over a year ago, I received an email from the marketing director of a burgeoning organic snack company. “Chris” had a problem that many food brands face: despite having a high-quality product, sales were stagnating, and their team was eager…
Sustainable, Shelf-Ready Packaging: Revolutionizing Retail A client recently told me they are researching sustainable shelf-ready packaging for a new food product launch. So, as we talked, it became clear that it was less about being trendy and more about wanting to do the right thing with this company. Basically, it’s never been about the box….
As consumers become more environmentally conscious, the demand for eco-friendly products continues to grow. Food manufacturers are no exception to this trend, and you’ll need to adapt to meet your customers’ expectations. Eco-friendly packaging is a crucial aspect of sustainable food manufacturing, and hiring a seasoned agency like NewPoint to guide you through this process…
Looking for the Tips to Acheive the Best Creative Food Packaging Design? It’s simply not enough to have a delicious, palatable food or beverage product for your customers. You also have to package it and market it in a way that appeals to them. No matter how delectable your creations are, they won’t sell…
,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…
As a designer, I’m always interested in packaging rebrand redesigns. Now, because we are in food marketing, I pay special attention to food packaging trends. I found that Newhope recently compiled several food packaging rebrands from 2020, so I started to swipe through them. I made a mental list of if I thought the packaging…
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…
Invest in a CPG Creative Brief to Save Time, Money, and Heartburn. “You Only Get Out of the Agency as Good as You Put In.” This is a client quote. A client that champions our insistence on using a CPG creative brief for most projects. This comes from his experience working with a wide variety…
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…
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.