The consumer demands retail strategies to look into new ways to draw customers into their store. But wait, isn’t retail dying? Doesn’t everyone order their stuff online now? While we’re seeing closures from apparel retailers and large brands such as Macy’s, J.C. Penney, and Sears, it’s not necessarily because retail has lost its edge. As…
Brand Champions are Made, Not Born. An emerging brand dream. You’ve won the battle to get your product on the shelf. Retail reorders are coming in, and things seem to be going the right way. You’ve set up geo-fencing on your brand’s social media to drive consumers to retail stores and, of course, to talk…
What are you doing for brand awareness? Is your brand distinguishable in the sea of products? Food, in general, is a necessary sort of goods, making it important to consumers across every demographic and psychographic category. That means there’s literally thousands of branded food products competing for the attention of those consumers. These brands use…
In recent years, millennials have populated headlines. Some report that they’re an important demographic and others argue against their disruptive attitudes and buying habits. But what if millennials are the key to success? What if the way you advertise and promote your food brand depends on the millennial cohort? Their segment alone is a buying…
Coupons Work: Invite Trial Everyone love a good in-store demo, right? We get to try something new when we are in “just doing our weekly shopping” mode. As a food brand owner handing out those first trial samples, you get immediate feedback on your product – the good, the bad and the excited. The rubber…
And no, it doesn’t involve securing a public endorsement from Martha Stewart. (Though that definitely wouldn’t hurt.) It’s actually much simpler than that. It’s surprisingly old-fashioned. It’s… …feeding people. That’s right. In-store demos are the best support for a product launch. At NewPoint we talk to buyers often. We interview and survey them because we want…
Get on the shelf and stay on the shelf. You’ve crafted a product that your friends and family love. They give you endless praise saying you should get retail shelf space. But before you can go into a store, are you aware of the competitive landscape? Do you know who the ideal consumer is for…
It’s the start of a new year and that means one thing in the food world: predictions of 2018 food trends are upon us. We are going to be reading all sorts of new foods, flavors and eating trends that consumers will be looking to add to their menus and shopping lists. But does that…
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.