ADVERTISING AND PROMOTION
Dine - The Food and Drink Agency
Contact: Chris Cornyn, Principal
1501 Mariposa Street, Suite 428
San Francisco, CA 94110
415.864.8200 ext.104
chris@dinemarketing.com
www.DineMarketing.com
Primary Focus: Food Marketing Specialists, Branding, Packaging & Marketing for Food & Drink.
MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS SUPPORT
Food Biz Startup
Food Biz Startup is a virtual learning center designed for the food business entrepreneur and practioners.
Website: Foodbizstartup.net
503-407-6959
Chad Braithwaite Faces Photography
Draper, Utah 84020
801/748-2283
CONSULTING SERVICES
Arich Inc.
Contact: Richard Gray
150 Central Park South, Suite 3210
New York, NY 10019-1566
212-247-1800; Fax: 212-247-2231
email: rfgray@mindspring.com: Website: arichinc.com
Arich is one of the country’s leading strategy organizations focusing on direct-to-consumer marketing programs and business model development for mid-sized businesses.
For almost a quarter century, Arich has led companies in a wide variety of industries and trade classes to accelerate, grow and expand, marketing brands across multi-channel environments, achieving results quickly and working within optimized budgets.
Arich provides hands-on experience with every aspect of a company’s strategic growth: online and offline marketing including advertising, channel optimization, database marketing, interactive advertising and business and channel integration and synchronization, as well as logistics, product development, branding, merchandising, and identifying/integrating intellectual properties (patents and licenses). Plus, over time Arich has developed an extensive network of top flight vendors to execute all areas of multi-channel marketing, optimizing strategies and efficiencies for a wide range of firms: public, private, venture-backed, spinoffs, and corporate divestitures.
FastTrac National Headquarters
4747 Troost
Kansas City, MO 64110
800-689-1740; Fax: (816) 235-6216; For orders/customer service: 877-450-9800
email: info@fasttrac.org
FastTrac is a comprehensive entrepreneurship-educational program that provides entrepreneurs with business insights, leadership skills, and professional networking connections so they are prepared to create a new business or expand an existing enterprise. The nine FastTrac programs include practical, hands-on business development programs and workshops for existing and aspiring entrepreneurs, as well as entrepreneurship curricula for college students. FastTrac is designed to help entrepreneurs hone the skills needed to create, manage, and/or grow successful businesses.
Food Launch, LLC
(Formerly: Gourmet Business Solutions)
129 N. Garden Avenue
Clearwater, FL 33755
800-975-7068, x703
email: info@gourmetbusinesssolutions.com
Website: gourmetbusinesssolutions.com
Food Launch is a management consulting firm specializing in brand and business development, marketing, and Internet/technology solutions for companies in the gourmet food and specialty food industry. We offer the highest level of solutions and sales programs specifically for companies manufacturing and selling gourmet and specialty food. Contact Ryan Montague.
Food Marketing International
10001 N. 77th Place
Scottsdale, AZ 85258
(480) 778-0640
email: hall@specialtyfoodresource.com
Primary focus: Establishing strategic frameworks for specialty food entrepreneurs; business development consulting. Contact Steve Hall.
Green Harbor Associates
4 Calypso Lane
Marshfield, MA 02050
781-837-1664; Fax: 781-837-8304
email: green.harbor@comcast.net
Primary focus: The firm offers a marketing-consulting service to manufacturers of specialty foods, from assisting in label design to picking a distribution channel to implementing an extensive marketing strategy. In addition, the firm handles all aspects of trade advertising and public relations. Interested parties are invited to contact the firm’s principal, Ronald M. Cardoos.
Katz Marketing Solutions
Tammy Katz, CEO and Founder
295 South Dawson Avenue
Colombus, OH 43209
614-252-7824
email: info@katzmarketingsolutions.com;
Website: katzmarketingsolutions.com
This company offers brand development and marketing and has revitalized numerous Fortune 500 brands. Services offered include brand positioning and distribution, channel management, licensing, marketing planning and staffing and new product development.
komida Wholesale Account Management Software
Sergio Mendoza
761 Ridgewood Road
Key Biscayne, FL 33149
Komida Wholesaale Account Management Software is designed specifically for sellers of specialty foods. komida also offers a free guide, "Selling Through Distributors: Grow Your Wholesale Specialty Food Business," available for free at www.komida.com/grow
Nicholas Hansen Consulting Inc.
Contact: Alfred Bartholomai
3544 Monticello Commons
Norcross, GA 30092
678-467-7388
email: alfred@nicholshansen.com
Services offered:
-plant design
-suggestions of products in demand in local and export markets
-suggestions of fppd products with above average return on investments to attract investors
-economic evaluation of individual projects
Northeast Center for Food Entrepreneurship (NECFE) at Cornell University
New York State Food Venture Center
Cornell University NYS Agricultural Experiment Station
630 W. North Street
Geneva, NY 14456
(315) 787-2274
The Resource Center provides access to information about :
Available facilities;
Equipment for the food processing business;
Business and marketing basics;
Terms and definitions common in the food processing industry;
Regulatory information;
Links to trade groups and agencies associated with the food production industry;
NECFE business and marketing services; and NECFE product-processing development services;
NXLevel Training Network
800-873-9378; Fax: 800-860-0522
The NxLeveL Entrepreneurial Training Programs are practical, hands-on business development courses designed to help entrepreneurs advance their skills in starting, growing, and managing their business. NxLeveL classes are offered throughout the United States through the NxLeveL Training Network®. The NxLeveL Training Network is a group of organizations engaged in entrepreneurial training, the purpose of which is to develop the best training curricula possible and to share best practices among network partners, including effective operational, funding, and management strategies.
Pennsylvania State University Food Entrepreneur Resources
email: ifl5@psu.edu; Website: foodsafety.cas.psu.edu/processor/resources.htm
This resource offers an extensive listing of links that can answer your questions about starting a food processing business.
Planning Shop
555 Bryant Street, #180
Palo Alto, California 94301
650/289-9120
Primary focus: Our mission is to be the number one provider of business planning resources for the serious entrepreneur. Contact: Rhonda Abrams.
Radiant Systems
Contact: Anne Hayden
3925 Brookside Parkway
Alpharetta, GA 30022
770-576-6557
email: anne.hayden@radiantsystems.com; Website: radiantsstems.com
Specialty Food Resource LLC
10001 N. 77th Place
Scottsdale, AZ 85258
(480) 778-0640
email: HALL@specialtyfoodresource.com
Website: specialtyfoodresource.com
Primary focus: Produces and manages website and discussion forum/blog devoted to connecting specialty food processors, distributors, brokers, suppliers, and retailers. Contact Steve Hall.
Start A Home Based Bakery
Contact: Denay D. Davis, Principal
Cooking with Denay promotes getting back to basics, sustainable food processing; baking, cooking and sharing homemade products at local farmers markets and food cooperatives. Denay is author of “Start a Home Based Bakery,” she gives culinary and baking demonstrations online.
919/412-9158
Start a Food Company
Steve Zoller, President
8405 Picket Line Road
Mount Morris, NY 14510
585-468-380; email: steve@startafoodompany.com
This company offers all aspects of business assistance for new to industry start-up food companies.
SYSPRO
Contact: Ryan Tate
959 South Coast Drive, Suite 100
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
714-437-1000, 800-369-8649; Fax: 714-437-1407
email:ryan.tate@us.syspro.com; Website: syspro.com
This company handles accounting, manufactoring and distribution software.
BUSINESS LISTS
Info USA Inc.
5711 S. 86th Circle
Omaha, NE 68127
800-321-0869, 402-331-7169
Sells business listings compiled from nationwide Yellow Pages.
Gourmet News Magazine
P.O. Box 1056
Yarmouth, ME 04096
(207) 846-0800
Website: gourmetnews.com
Gourmet News rents its extensive listings of specialty food decision makers.
CATALOG SALES
5th Food Group
Internet and Catalog Marketing
Contact: Tony Cox
9923 Avalon Creek Court
Dallas, TX 75230
214-361-8260
email: tony@5thgroupmarketing.com; Website:5thfoodgroup.com
Helping clients sell more specialty food, gourmet food and food gifts by catalog and internet marketing is our passion in business. Our clients—exclusively specialty food manufacturers and retailers—hire us to help grow their direct-to-consumer business sensibly and profitably.
Their mission is to:
-save you from expensive trial and error. We are experts in catalog and internet marketing. We know the fundamentals, what works and what doesn’t, and every one of our actions has measurable results.
-allow you to focus on what you do best. We stay ahead of current best direct marketing practices so you don’t have to. And we use that expertise to design a custom plan for your business.
-save you time. We implement your catalog and internet marketing plan. We reduce your stress and make sure your emails and catalogs are sent to the most responsive customers at the right time.
-save you money as we negotiate print contracts, manage your pay-per-click program, get you the best deal on postage, and more.
-you will increase sales while minimizing your marketing costs.
LegalZoom.com
7083 Hollywood Boulevard, Suite 180
Los Angeles, CA90028
800-773-0888, 323-962-8600; Fax: 323-982-8800
Website: legalzoom.com
Online legal documents service for incorporations, LLCs, trademark, patents, and copyrights.
CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
Rogers-Suleski and Associates
Carl Lindblad
464 Hillside Road
Needham, MA 02494
781-726-6160
LIABILITY INSURANCE
DeWitt Stern Insurance Services of California LLC
Rochelle Brotter
(818) 933-2737
Grant Hatch & Associates
Contact: Mr. Brett Johnson
Commercial Insurance Producer
465 South 400 East, Suite 300
Salt Lake CIty, Utah 84111
801/308-1472
Risk Management Consulting and Brokerage Serices. Grant Hatch shares powerful resources to improve your bottom-line performance.
Mikkelsen, Kelly & Kipp Insurance Inc.
Scott Mikkelsen
553 Cal Sag Road
Alslip, IL 60803
(708) 389-6330
This insurance agency can sell coverage in Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, California, Idaho, Arizona, Oklahoma, Connecticut, and Washington.
NUTRITIONAL ANALYSIS AND LABEL CONTENT
EMSL Analytical
11040 Lin-Valle Drive, Suite A
St. Louis, MO 63123
314-845-8910: Fax: 314-845-6459
Website: emsl.com
EMSL is a full-service food and consumer products analytical laboratory offering services by trained microbiologists, chemists and material scientists.
Lawrence-Allen Group NutriLABEL
Contact: Larry Imes
990 Roberts Street
Reno, NV 89502-1917
775-348-2097; Fax: 888-892-2010
Primary focus: Provides fast, low-cost services, including food product nutritional analysis, camera-ready nutrition facts panel art, FDA labeling compliance assistance, ingredient statement preparation, trademark research, and new specialty food product development and consulting services. This is a confidential service with more than 50 years’ experience. Contact Larry Imes.
Strasburger & Siegel Inc.
7249 National Drive
Hanover, MD 21076-1324
800-875-6532, (410) 712-7373; Fax: 410-712-7378
Strasburger and Siegel is just one of many laboratories that offer competitively priced analytical services, including microbiological and microanalytical services, consulting services (project design, product stability, shelf-life evaluation, thermal process engineering, etc.), and customized product development services.
PRODUCE MARKETING
Sell What You Sow! The Grower's Guide to Successful Produce Marketing
New World Publishing
11543 Quartz Drive, #1
Auburn, CA 95602
(530) 823-3886
Sell What You Sow! by Eric Gibson is a guide to profitable produce marketing that covers marketing plans, research, crop selection, and selling through farmers’ markets, restaurants, roadside markets, pick-your-own operations, and retail outlets. It is a comprehensive how-to book of high-value produce marketing.
QUALITY ISSUES
The Deming Route to Quality and Productivity
by William W. Scherkenbach
CEE Press Books, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 1992
The Memory Jogger II
by Michael Brassard and Diane Ritter
GOAL/QPC, Salem, NH, 1994
800-643-4316
This is a pocket guide of tools for continuous improvement and effective planning.
UNIFORM PRODUCT CODE
GS1 United States
Princeton Pike Center
209 Lenox Drive, Suite 202
Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
(609) 620-0200; Fax: (609) 620-1200
This company offers UPC barcodes at a lower cost with no annual fees, no disclosure of federal tax ID, and no release of annual sales figures. It provides barcode graphics at no charge. Please note: If you plan to sell to The Kroger Company and/or Wal-Mart, you must obtain your barcodes from GS1.
RESOURCES FOR WOMEN AND MINORITY ENTREPRENEURS
U.S. Small Business Administration
Office of Women’s Business Ownership (OWBO)
1110 Vermont Street NW
Washington, DC 20416
800-827-5722, (202) 606-4000
Website: sba.gov/aboutsba/sbaprograms/onlinewbc/
The Office of Women’s Business Ownership is the primary advocate for the interests of women business owners and provides current and potential women business owners access to the following services and programs:
Technical, financial, and management information
Information about selling to the federal government
Access to capital
Women’s Prequalification Loan Program
Online Women’s Business Center
Website: sba.gov/aboutsba/sbaprograms/onlinewbc/
With over 60 centers nationwide, the Women’s Business Centers program provides long-term training, counseling, networking, and mentoring to all types of potential and existing women entrepreneurs.
Office of Minority Enterprise Development
(202) 205-6410
Website: sba.gov/aboutsba/sbaprograms/8abd/
The main objective of this office is to foster business ownership by individuals who are socially and economically disadvantaged and to promote the competitive viability of such firms. The SBA has combined its efforts with those of private industry, banks, local communities, and other government agencies to meet these goals. The following programs or services are offered:
Management and technical assistance
Section 8(a) Business Development Program certification
Federal procurement opportunities
Bonding
Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED)
(919) 549-7500
Website: cednc.org
CED provides educational courses, networking opportunities, mentoring, and capital formation resources for new and existing entrepreneurs.
Count Me In for Women’s Economic Independence (Women and Money)
Count Me In for Women’s Economic Independence is a national nonprofit organization that raises money from women to be lent to women. Count Me In is a lending and learning organization dedicated to strengthening women’s position in the economy. The concept is straightforward: millions of women across America will be asked—and inspired—to contribute a minimum of $5 to Count Me In to create a national loan fund for women. The money is redistributed to qualifying women in the form of small business loans ranging from $500 to $10,000 and scholarships for business training and technical assistance.
National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO)
1100 Wayne Avenue, Suite 830
Silver Spring, MD 20910
301-608-2590
email: national@nawbo.org; Website: nawbo.org
Annual dues: $75 to $125, depending on chapter location. Membership: 80,000.
NAWBO is a lobbying organization aimed at promoting policies that encourage female entrepreneurship. NAWBO also established the National Foundation for Women Business Owners (NFWBO), a nonprofit research foundation. NFWBO publishes a wide range of research studies and reports on statistical trends among women-owned firms. Its Compendium of National Statistics on Women-Owned Businesses in the U.S. brings together all the publicly available statistical information on women-owned businesses.
American Business Women's Association (ABWA)
9100 Ward Parkway
Kansas City, MO 64114
800-228-0007, (816) 361-6621
email: abwa@abwa.org; Website: abwahq.org
Annual dues: $35 ($32 for retired entrepreneurs).
The ABWA's primary focus is to promote entrepreneurial ventures by women. It offers member discounts ranging from car rentals and office products to long distance phone services. The ABWA also provides education and skill-building services to assist members just starting out.
American Woman's Economic Development Corp. (AWED)
71 Vanderbilt Avenue
New York, NY 10169
800-222-2933
Annual dues: $55 for new members, $49 for renewals Members: 2,000.
AWED's experts have experience in every area of small business—from financing and wholesale distribution to public relations. They offer classes in the New York City area but also dispense advice and coaching to members nationwide over the telephone. Four regional conferences are held annually to encourage networking among members
National Women's Business Council (NWBC)
409 Third Street SW
Washington, DC 20024
(202) 205-3850; Fax: (202) 205-6825
The National Women's Business Council is a bipartisan federal advisory council created to serve as an independent source of advice and policy recommendations to the president, congress, and the U.S. Small Business Administration on economic issues of importance to women business owners. The Council's mission is to promote bold initiatives, policies, and programs designed to support women's business enterprises at all stages of development in the public and private sector marketplaces—from start-up to success to significance.
National Minority Supplier Development Council Inc. (NMSDC)
1040 Avenue of the Americas, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10018
(212) 944-2430; Fax: (212) 719-9611
Website: nmsdc.org
Providing a direct link between corporate America and minority-owned businesses is the primary objective of the National Minority Supplier Development Council, one of the country's leading business membership organizations. It was chartered in 1972 to provide increased procurement and business opportunities for minority businesses of all sizes. The NMSDC Network includes a National Office in New York and 39 regional councils across the country. There are 3,500 corporate members throughout the network, including most of America's largest publicly owned, privately owned, and foreign-owned companies, as well as universities, hospitals, and other buying institutions. They certify and match more than 15,000 minority-owned businesses (Asian, Black, Hispanic, and Native American) with member corporations that want to purchase goods and services.
National Women Business Owners (NWBOC)
1001 West Jasmine Drive, #G
Lake Park, FL 33403
800-675-5066; Fax: (561) 881-7364
NWBOC was established in 1995 to increase competition for corporate and government contracts through implementation of a pioneering economic development strategy for women business owners. NWBOC is a national 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation and is the first third-party, national certifier providing "Woman Business Enterprise" (WBE) Certification for women-owned businesses. The certification ensures that a private, for-profit company is truly owned and controlled by a woman or women.
Mothers' Home Business Network (MHBN)
PO Box 423
East Meadow, NY 11554
(516) 997-7394
Website: homeworkingmom.com
Annual Dues: $39.95. Membership: 6,000.
One of the largest groups for women home-based business owners. MHBN provides information, ideas, and inspiration to moms who choose to work at home. Publishes two newsletters, Home Working Mothers (annual) and Kids and Career (twice a year). MHBN provides literature on how to juggle your time between raising children and running a successful business as well as a "fraud detector" for evaluating home business opportunities.
FREELANCE SOFTWARE WORK
www.getafreelancer.com
Find a freelancer at this website to help with Graphic Design, Copywriting, Logo and Banner Design, Java and Javascript, Linux, Cold Fusion, Visual Basic, Flash or to find a PHP Programmer.
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