Co-Packing Projects: The Lemonaders Team (www.Lemonaders.com) wants to work with contract manufacturers directly who need a ‘bridge team’ who can both recruit new co-packing project clients as well can be a process management team for new start-up and emerging brand clients.
New Co-Packing Clients
The Lemonaders Team has a number of mechanisms available when it relates to recruiting new co-packing projects. The team has websites, TV shows and visits over 50 trade shows annually.
Trade Associations/Trade Shows: The team is involved with a number of industry trade shows (NACS, Fancy Food, Expo West/Expo East, NAMA, IDDBA, etc) which we look for new start-up and emerging brands for our internal incubation programs.
Incubators/Accelerators: The team is involved with a number of incubators and accelerators as an advisory group talking about the needs for creating and launching brands.
State Department of Agriculture Programs: The Lemonaders Team created its own State Proud (www.StateProud.com) site which is involved as an advisory group to State Departments of Agriculture (and their brand members).
Crowdfunding: The team are advisors to a number of crowdfunding sites which includes helping brands get into a co-packing relationship.
Websites: The team owns a number of industry sites (ex RetailFormats.com) which helps clients on a number of subjects.
Commercial Kitchens Association: Lemonaders is a co-founder of the new Commercial Kitchens Association which is a direct link to helping new start-up brands evolve from a commercial kitchen into a co-packing relationship.
Co-Packing.org: The team’s Co-Packing.org is being created to being a resource educating manufacturers, co-packers and private label groups on the benefits of becoming members of the main co-packing / contract packaging association in America today, CPA (Contract Packaging Association –www.ContractPackaging.org).
TV Shows: The Lemonaders Team itself has a Television Production Group with a number of TV shows (ex www.EntrepreneuronTV.com, www.FranchiseeTV.com) which are involved in industry subjects including food manufacturing.
Incubation Program
The Lemonaders Team has created an incubation program specifically for start-up brands through its own sites including www.Lemonaders.com. The model includes a complete source for everything needed as well as access to funding resources throughout America.
Process Management Team
The Lemonaders Team acts as a ‘bridge team’ that helps introduce the steps needed for a successful relationship between a contract manufacturer and its new clients. Most contract manufacturers do not have the time to try and educate new clients (especially start-ups) so the Lemonaders Team takes over the process role.
They manage key subjects such as:
Contract Manufacturing Preliminaries
- Co-Packing Negotiations
- NDA
- General Management
- Ingredient Sourcing
- Delivery of Sample Ingredients
- Final Shelf Life Testing
- Test Runs on Equipment
- First Series of Samples
- Product Revisions
- Final Samples for the Trade
Product Formulations
- Recipe(s) Delivery
- Recipe(s) Review
- Recipe(s) Testing
- Formulations (Match with Facility)
- Ingredient Review
- Ingredient Sourcing
- Revisions
- Samples Delivered
- Shelf Life Testing
- Product Taste Tests
- Nutrition Panels
- Product Ready for Next Phases
Film and Packaging
- Packaging Partner Search
- Film Preparation Search
- Packaging (Film)
- Packaging (Caddies)
- Packaging (Master Cases)
- Packaging Design Merge
- UPC Code Prep and Sourcing
- Film Plates and Proofs
- Packaging Production
- Film Production
Branding Solutions
- Branding Concepts
- Logos
- Customer Research
- Customer Profiling
- Social Media Plans
- Website Efforts
- Package Design
- Trademarks