A Commercial Kitchen is a fully equipped and licensed culinary workspace where start-up food and beverage entrepreneurs can prepare, cook, and package their products for sale.
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The Co-Packing Network is a national CPG advisory group involved within the US and Canadian based consumer product manufacturing industries. The founders are celebrating their 100-year anniversary in the business (history with supermarkets, wholesaling, manufacturing, their own brands and more).
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We created the ‘Search By County’ Tool to help food industry start-ups find the ideal commercial kitchen (also known as a commissary kitchen, kitchen incubator) in their area. We list the commercial kitchens by county and by zip code.
Look for our other programs relating to help with working with farmer’s markets; our commercial kitchen incubation programs for clients of commercial kitchens and our own efforts helping create new kitchens.
The Contract Manufacturing Alliance’s founders have over 30-years in the consumer products space and are available to help create new brand group (start-up, emerging and established) customer sales plans. Recruiting New Commercial Kitchens: The Contract Packaging Association’s membership includes contract manufacturers, pilot plants, private labelers and commercial kitchens of all-types. We are recruiting current commercial kitchens and contract manufacturers to offer pilot runs and / or to create pilot plants within their own locations. We also are working with colleges and universities with current programs.
We offer all Commercial Kitchens (culinary kitchens, shared kitchens, kitchen incubators, food innovation centers) with tools that help their clients (such as incubation programs). We will be availing our matchmaking platforms to our commercial kitchen partners that have needs for kitchen equipment, ingredients, packaging, recipe tools and much more.
We are involved with state departments of agriculture nationwide and are involved with their brand members.
Being based in Las Vegas we either exhibit or walk over 50 CPG industry trade shows. We are-able to meet with brands here.
We are also involved with CPG industry incubators such as Circle Up as well as intro groups such as RangeMe.
The team is involved with a-number of SBDC offices as well as Score.org consultants helping start-up brands.
The team is involved with a-number of SBDC offices as well as Score.org consultants helping start-up brands.
We participate in CPG industry VC events as well help prepare start-ups with their Kickstarter and Indiegogo campaigns.
We are involved with groups such as Mattson and The National Food Lab as well as a growing number of Pilot Plants.
From our own roster of commercial kitchens we create internal CPG incubation programs for their clients.
As advisors to farmer’s market trade associations, we are creating CPG incubation programs for their vendors.
Between CPA and Conzumables we have our own CPG websites that help promote our programming.
Farmer’s Markets: The Food Start-ups Team has created an incubation program that is ideal for farmer’s market operators and their consumer product vendor partners. We matchmake consumer product entrepreneurs with commercial kitchens, co-packers and pilot plants nationwide.
Retailers: Together with our own internal and external sales partners, we help place products (retailers, e-commerce) that consumer product entrepreneurs make with their manufacturing partners. Our own www.RetailFormats.com showcases all of the retail and food service formats that are ideal for placements.
Food Service Retailers: Together with our own internal and external sales partners, we help place products (food service operators) that consumer product entrepreneurs make with their manufacturer partners. Our own www.RetailFormats.com showcases all-of the retail and food service formats that are ideal.
E-Commerce (Internal /External): Together with our own internal and external sales partners, we help create e-commerce platforms for client brands as well as have sales partners that help create Amazon relationships as well as a full-lineup of e-commerce customers such as Thrive Market, Abe’s Market and Wayfair.
As the Founders of the Co-Packing Network and Co-Founders of the Contract Manufacturing Alliance, our family has been involved within the consumer product industry (US based manufacturing, retailing, distribution) since the early 1920’s. From the first generation to the latest, our best practices have been handed down over time leading to a long legacy of successes in the business (manufacturing, retailing, distribution and more)..
Innovating a Brand: We help with everything from brand concepts, first-run recipes, branding exercises, customer research, competitor research, retail and format planning and anything else with the ideas behind the new brand.
Creating a Brand: Most importantly with finding a contract manufacturer, we also help brands with ingredients, packaging, first test-runs, shelf-life testing, pilot plant testing, package and label designs, competitor research, and much more.
Launching a Brand: After a product is created, we are vital for the launch of the brand into the marketplace. We have internal and external teams that cover most retail, food service and e-commerce channels (www.RetailFormats.com)
Contract Packaging (CP) is the official magazine for the Contract Packaging Association, published three times each year by PMMI Media Group (owners of Packaging World magazine). Dedicated exclusively to contract packaging issues and news, each issue is overseen by Editor-in-Chief, Anne Marie Mohan.
20,000 qualified packaging professionals receive each edition of CP. These professionals are individuals who have indicated that they have purchase involvement in contract packaging and related services and products. Magazine recipients are also contract packagers, who are CPA members.
Contract Packaging has the privilege and the advantage of being the official publication for the Contract Packaging Association, positioning CP journalists for optimum access to and trust of key influencers who are driving the leading edge of the industry.
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