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 CPA’s Request for Quote (RFQ) tool allows start-up and emerging brands to submit a ‘Request for Quote’ for their needs for a commercial kitchen and/or a contract manufacturer.   The Request for Quote will be dispatched to CPA Members whose capabilities match your project needs, and if they can assist you, will contact you directly about their services and capabilities.
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The Contract Packaging Association is the national, non-profit trade organization for the Contract Packaging / Manufacturing industry. Formed in 1992 for contract packaging firms and those businesses related to them, CPA promotes the growth and welfare of member firms through its industry exposure and programs.

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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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Our Mission: To 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. Other benefits to partners include offers and discounts with companies in these related areas:
  • Commercial Kitchen Equipment
  • Paper Products
  • Kitchen Supplies
  • Janitorial and Cleaning Supplies
  • Ingredient Sales
  • Commercial Kitchen Software
  • Refrigeration Companies
  • Flooring Products
  • Shelf-Life Testing Companies
  • Retail Packaging Companies
  • Food Service Packaging Companies
  • Packaging Designers
  • Small-wares
  • Catering Supplies
  • HR Software
  • HVAC Companies
  • Commercial Kitchen Designs
  • Contractors
  • Equipment Repair Companies
  • Uniform Supply
  • Energy Solutions
  • Insurance
  • Certifications
  • Water Solutions
  • Food Containers
  • Baking Supplies
  • Food Prep Supplies
  • Furniture
  • China and Glassware
  • Food Service Distribution
  • Retail Food Distribution
  • Consumer Product Brokers

Our Search By County Tool: Commercial Kitchens

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.

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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.

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The Contract Manufacturing Alliance’s founders have created an incubation program specific to the clients of commercial kitchens nationwide (also kitchen incubators, food innovation centers and others).
1.) Working With Farmer’s Markets: We have created modules that align the vendors (current and future) of farmer’s markets introducing them to commercial kitchens in their areas.
2.) Incubation Programming:  We have created white label incubation models ideal for commercial kitchens that help their clients with subjects relating to the business.  These include subjects such as retailers, calendar reviews, distributors, brokers, funding, PO financing, logistics, recipe and formulation help, packaging, ingredients, food service, exporting product and more.

Our Extended Community Also Includes:

State Depts of Agriculture

We are involved with state departments of agriculture nationwide and are involved with their brand members.

Trade
Shows

Being based in Las Vegas we either exhibit or walk over 50 CPG industry trade shows. We are-able to meet with brands here.

CPG
Incubators

We are also involved with CPG industry incubators such as Circle Up as well as intro groups such as RangeMe.

SBDC /
Score.org

The team is involved with a-number of SBDC offices as well as Score.org consultants helping start-up brands.

Colleges &
Universities

The team is involved with a-number of SBDC offices as well as Score.org consultants helping start-up brands.

VC & Crowd-
funding Groups

We participate in CPG industry VC events as well help prepare start-ups with their Kickstarter and Indiegogo campaigns.

CPG Innovation
Labs

We are involved with groups such as Mattson and The National Food Lab as well as a growing number of Pilot Plants.

Commercial
Kitchens

From our own roster of commercial kitchens we create internal CPG incubation programs for their clients.

Farmer’s
Markets

As advisors to farmer’s market trade associations, we are creating CPG incubation programs for their vendors.

Industry
Websites

Between CPA and Conzumables we have our own CPG websites that help promote our programming.

Creating Products For the Following:

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)..

The Contract Manufacturing Alliance Has Seven Areas of Manufacturing (They Have Programs For):

Complete Incubation Programs for Contract Manufacturing Alliance/Co-Packing Network Partners:  We help brands with anything to do with the business.  We are available for any subject that involves with the following areas:

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)

Some of Our Successes: Includes Involvement With Over 40-Brands on Shark Tank (the TV Show):
  • What Is Your Idea For a Product?
  • Have You Done Category Research?
  • Do You Have Recipes/Formulations?
  • What Part of the Country Are You In?
  • Do You Have a Business Plan?
  • Do You Have CPG Experience?
  • Do You Need a Commercial Kitchen
  • Do You Need a Pilot Plant
  • Do You Need a Contract Manufacturer
  • Do You Need a Private Labeler
  • Ingredients, Packaging or Others
  • Package and Label Designs
  • 3PL and Warehousing Partners
  • Cold Storage Partners
  • How to Work With Distributors
  • Direct-Store-Delivery vs. Warehouse
  • E-Commerce / D2C Partners
  • Customer Owned Distribution
  • Self Funding
  • Friends and Family
  • Incubators & Accelerators
  • Grants and Government Funds
  • Angel Investors
  • Purchase Order Financing
  • Brokers bs Direct Inside Sales
  • Customers (Category Management))
  • Merchandising (Fixtures, POS, etc.)
  • Planning, Presentations, Preparation
  • Territory and Region Development
  • Food Exports and Food Imports
  • Social Media & Influencers
  • Consumer and Customer
  • In-Store Marketing
  • Trade Associations & Shows
  • Customer / Consumer Research
  • Media & TV Kitchen Studios

Our Own Media:

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Our New Community Tool: Squawkee

We our using our own media assets by creating, Squawkee, a new community communication tool aligning with internal and external relationships, platforms (with their own slack communities) and more. We will be offering our programs (examples include  Pilot Plants, Commercial Kitchens, Expo Manager, Ingredient Manager and others) to anyone in the industry (to use for their members and clients).

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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