Is Your Brand Ready for the Coming Retail Reset?
I was recently speaking with a distributor in the food and beverage category who told me something that stuck in my brain: the biggest challenge CPG brands are not thinking about is that, once the supply chain is back at 100%, the retail environment will shift again and many marketers will be disappointed. Our conversation […]
6 Growth-Oriented Strategies for Food & Beverage Brands in 2023
End-of-year planning during uncertain economic times is scary for leaders in the food, beverage, and wellness categories. Marketers at multinationals are being told to “protect the core” — retreat, retrench, and ride it out. But holiday sales results and signals from the Federal Reserve suggest that this recession isn’t gonna be deep and long. We […]
Top 10 Things We Thought Were Rad About 2022
On a personal and professional level, 2022 has been a whirlwind, and I can’t believe we’re in the final weeks of the year. So many of our business conversations have focused on things that are broken: economic uncertainty, on-going supply chain issues and the challenges of bringing diverse voices into our organizations. But we haven’t […]
Authority Magazine: 5 Things You Need To Create a Successful Food or Beverage Brand with David Lemley
David Lemley had the chance to be interviewed by Authority Magazine on his thoughts on what food and beverage brands need to be successful today. Authority Magazine, a Medium publication, is devoted to sharing in-depth, and interesting interviews, featuring people who are authorities in Business, Pop Culture, Wellness, Social Impact, and Tech. They use interviews to […]
Do Third-Party Certifications Matter for Food & Beverage Brands?
I was recently talking shop with a friend who works for a retailer about how they choose new brands to carry. Off the cuff, she mentioned that the organization was questioning the value of certifications in their selection process. Our conversation mirrored some thinking I’ve been doing about how certification applies to my own business. […]
Becoming a Green Company: 4 Examples to Guide the Way
Over the past few weeks, we’ve been publishing a series of articles about sustainability for food and beverage brands … moving from relatively low-stakes/low-impact (packaging) to mid-stakes/mid-impact (brand mission) and now to high-stakes/high-impact (corporate environmental responsibility). Product to brand to company. This is part of a series of articles we’ve published on sustainability for food […]
How Sustainable is Your Food or Beverage Brand, Really?
An article we published recently noted that food and beverage brands often tout their sustainability and package their products in “recyclable” materials. In the real world, though, most food and beverage packaging is not actually recyclable in any practical sense. And even if it were, we’ve put the burden of dealing with all of this […]
The Road to Sustainable Packaging is Long. Start With These 5 Steps.
Single-use containers. Individually wrapped items. Multi-material packaging. In our push to make our products so. very. useful. to consumers, food and beverage brands have sacrificed sustainability. In doing so, we’ve relegated waste management to the consumer. Since I attended the AmericaPack Summit in New Orleans in February, I’ve been thinking deeply about our role as […]
