Effective Way to Keep Consumers Interested Holiday food marketing is an effective way to keep customers interested in your brand or product and score placement in grocery stores. There are many strategies for holiday food marketing, including flavors or products. So, how can these help your brand? Holiday Packaging From adults to kids, holiday candy…
Choosing renewable food packaging will not only benefit your company but society too There are many reasons why your food brand should switch to renewable food packaging. One reason is that society is becoming more aware of product packaging and its effect on the environment. As a result, demand has increased for renewable food packaging…
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…
Seasonal Food Marketing Effective and Loved by Consumers When you think of winter what do you think about? Maybe Christmas, red and green colors, snow, snowmen, presents, trees, New Year’s. etc. What do you think about when you hear the word “spring”? Probably lots of pastel colors, Easter, Easter bunny, flowers, rain, etc. How about…
Innovative food packaging: promote your brand’s corporate social responsibility awareness Millennials are driving the rise of corporate social responsibility (CSR). According to eMarketer, a recent survey by RetailMeNot, two-thirds of internet users ages 18 and older said more brands should take a public stand on important social values. And over half said that even if…
How can you help customers “take the easy route”? In today’s world, consumers are constantly on the go. They’re hustling about their busy workday, limiting the amount of time they have for daily tasks such as making dinner and getting groceries. This is why the convenience of new delivery services such as UberEats and DoorDash…
Summer Fancy Food: The Showcase for Food Trends Spotlight The Summer Fancy Food Show in NYC showcases over 2,500 food companies covering every inch of the cavernous Javits convention facility. Just like my visit last year, this year was eventful and noteworthy. To say it’s vast would be an understatement. I walked the entire show…
Good Food Expo – Get On the Shelf: Whole Foods, KeHE & full panel discuss Relaunch a Food Brand stories. I was fortunate to be asked to moderate the “Get On The Shelf” panel at the Good Food Expo held mid-March 2019 at the University of Illinois Chicago west loop campus. The panel was made…
Of course, brand messaging is important. But how many times do words alone get your attention? Photography is the driver that reels people in to learn more, to read that headline or body copy. It’s what makes shoppers slow their shopping carts when scanning the shelves. It’s what stops an Instagram-scrolling thumb. “Okay. So, why…
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…
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.