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Co-Packer Landscape Sourcing

Finding the correct contract manufacturer is the single most important factor when creating a product with outsourced operations.

Co-Packer Management / On-boarding

Managing and on-boarding a co-packer correctly is the groundwork for your relationship with your food manufacturing partner.

COGS Analysis

Diving into the numbers to ensure that your product is being made and sold at the correct costs for a sustainable margin.

Ingredient Sourcing & Supply Chain

Every brand strives to use the “best” ingredients in their product, but what does “best” really mean to you? Sherpa will assess your existing vendor pool for opportunities to lower your COGs, increase consistent fulfillment of quality ingredients and align ingredients with functionality and qualified claims. Working with new ingredients in your portfolio? Let us build you a supply chain from scratch, sourcing the most cost-effective options based on a holistic view of your geographic needs, product format, and certification needs.

Innovation Project Manager

You have the suppliers and formula in place, but you need an experienced project manager to drive your initiative to the finish line.

Tradeshow Strategy & Buildout

You have the suppliers and formula in place, but you need an experienced project manager to drive your initiative to the finish line.

Brand Identity & Messaging

How well do you speak the language of your tribe?

The strength and consistency of your brand voice should work hand in hand with your brand’s visual footprint to create a unique personality that engages consumers from on-shelf packaging to social platforms.

Copywriting: Sales-Driven Storytelling

Drive consumer engagement and communicate the value propositions of your brand and products lines versus the competition. We’ll dive into your existing brand assets to identify key elements of your brand personality, and couple that with top trends and best practices in your target channels to develop a unique voice that creates lasting impact.

• Brand Copy: $125/hour — Description text. Proin gravida ex id consectetur lobortis. Fusce porta quam purus, vel consectetur est luctus vel. Sed ac urna lacus.

• Product Descriptions

• Packaging Copy

Create brand buzz in a fast-paced news cycle with clear, compelling writing that shares the purpose and passion behind your products. Capture the attention of industry-facing journalists, enterprise and consumer publications, consumers and buyers and build up your archive of press and pingbacks.

• Press Releases

• Company or Founder Biography

• Business Copy: $175/hour — Description text. Donec fermentum venenatis ipsum, eu efficitur mi placerat quis.

• Website Copy: About Us, Team Profiles, etc

Label Compliance & Packaging Audit

$125/hour, payment plans available — Comprehensive assessment of your current packaging communications and their placement, including: all qualified and self-declared product claims, ingredient statement, required FDA statements (universal and product-specific), contact information, nutritional panel and ingredient deck, product descriptions and naming strategy, proofing of all packaging copy.

Nutritional Labeling: Get an FDA approved nutritional panel based on your commercial formulation. We can assist you with generating a compliant nutrition panel and ingredient deck in the format that best fits your packaging format and graphic layout.

Packaging: Development & Design

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R&D: Clean-Label & Functional Formulation