Are you thinking about starting a food business; or are you a seasoned food business owner and planning to launch new products or pursue new markets; or maybe you’re somewhere in between. Farm Food Drink develops and facilitates sector-specific workshops to help you tackle your specific growth planning needs.
With the onset of Christmas advertising already in various media, is your food business ready for holiday promotion opportunities?
The BC food industry is full of interesting vibrant people, and the owners at Honey Bee Zen are examples of that. A couple of years ago, they came to us to rebrand their two honey lines and we have since built an ongoing business and mutually respectful relationship.
This year’s 25th anniversary of the Coquitlam Farmers Market drove the desire to formalize an umbrella brand for the Grow Local Society that would incorporate the two farmers markets and other initiatives they lead.
Their basil love started over 20 years ago with an indoor gardening project and grew into a basil pesto that needed a little marketing magic.
You know you should have a sales forecast, goals set, business plan update, but maybe something is keeping you from them. Here are some recommendations to manage forward.
You know you should have a sales forecast, goals set, business plan update, but maybe something is keeping you from them. Here are some recommendations to manage forward.
Food hubs are a way to improve food security and grow local businesses and economies, so we have more control over our food systems.
Food hubs are a way to improve food security and grow local businesses and economies, so we have more control over our food systems.
Transformation. It’s what Johanna Faccini thrives on. As a chemical engineer and serial entrepreneur in the food industry, she gets excited about trying new things, to learn, to grow, and to transform things into something new or different.
Focused on improving food security, the Mission Community Skills Centre Society recently piloted their Wild Craft Foods Program in support of indigenous youth.
If you can scale up production, it may be time to look at expanding into larger retail. To be successful, that’s going to take some planning and preparation.