On Friday, March 21st I’m honored to be moderating an expert panel at the Good Food Expo 2019 entitled: “Shelf Space and How to Get It.” Register to attend here. If you’ve been paying attention to this anything I’ve published, you’ve probably noticed that I talk a lot about food buyers. I did it here….
Congratulations! You did it. You got your foot in the door and now you have a coveted one-on-one meeting with a retail buyer. Often a retail buyer works within a specific product category, such as “protein” or “dry goods” or “frozen.” This person’s main job is saying yes or no to what’s being sold on…
Food entrepreneur marketing workshop One of the more fulfilling and meaningful things I get to do is act as a mentor for FamilyFarmed‘s Good Food Accelerator. I’ll let their website describe the organization: The Good Food Accelerator (GFA) gets emerging Good Food CPG (consumer packaged goods) brands ready for prime time, giving them the skills to…
Your Questions Answered: Q&A 4th Round of the Food Buyer’s Roundtable: Local Food in Big Stores Time to dial into the final installment of the last in our NewPoint Emerging Food Brands Conference workshop Q&A series. We began this journey with Social Media Marketing, attacked Vetting a Co-Packer, and followed that up with a Financing for Growth…
Your Questions Answered: Q&A 3rd Round of the Food Buyer’s Roundtable: Help Sell Your Food Product Hello again — as promised, here is our 3rd installment of the last in our NewPoint Emerging Food Brands Conference workshop Q&A series. We started with Social Media Marketing, attacked Vetting a Co-Packer, and followed that up with a Financing for…
Your Questions Answered: Q&A 2nd Round of the Food Buyer’s Roundtable: Food Industry Margins Time to dial into the 2nd installment of the last in our NewPoint Emerging Food Brands Conference workshop Q&A series. We began this journey with Social Media Marketing, attacked Vetting a Co-Packer, and followed that up with a Financing for Growth roundtable and…
Your Questions Answered: Q&A 1st Round of the Food Buyer’s Roundtable: Scoring a Buyer Meeting Welcome to the first installment of the last in our NewPoint Emerging Food Brands Conference workshop Q&A series. We kicked everything off with Social Media Marketing, attacked Vetting a Co-Packer, and followed that up with a Financing for Growth roundtable and workshop….
Emerging Food Brands Win the Day! It has been an incredibly busy two weeks since our Emerging Food Brands Conference. Thank you to all the food companies, the experts, Indiana State Department of Agriculture‘s Indiana Grown program and both our Purdue University partners: Purdue Food Sciences and the Purdue Foundry for supporting this event. Special…
Help Food Distributors and Brokers Share Your Selling Story (Correctly). You’ve created a killer pitch deck and selling story. You’ve researched the retailer’s plan-o-gram (POG), the trends, and competitive homework. You’ve finally had a meeting with a retail food buyer – and it went well. That’s how the journey starts. But sooner or later on your journey to…
Your Retail Selling Story (Hint: Your Retail Marketing Deck) A retail marketing deck is one of food brands’ most critical–and challenging–sales components. Anyone who has experienced success selling to multiple retail customers has cracked the code. They have perfected their unique retail selling story. Each may have developed wildly divergent strategies and tactics depending on…
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.