Discover Your Perfect Kitchen Space

Our mission is to empower Commercial Kitchens - including culinary kitchens, shared kitchens, kitchen incubators, and food innovation centers - with tools that nurture their clients.
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Discover Your Perfect Kitchen Space

Our mission is to empower Commercial Kitchens - including culinary kitchens, shared kitchens, kitchen incubators, and food innovation centers - with tools that nurture their clients.
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Our Mission: To offer all Commercial Kitchens the tools needed to help their clients. 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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Also Helping With Subjects Such as Commercial Kitchen Equipment, Paper Products, Kitchen Supplies, Janitorial and Cleaning Supplies, Ingredients. Flooring Products, Commercial Kitchen Software, Refrigeration, Shelf-Life Testing, Retail Packaging, Small wares, Catering Supplies, HVAC, Commercial Kitchen Designs, Contractors, Equipment Repair Companies, Uniform Supply, Energy Solutions, Insurance, Certifications, Water Solutions, Food Containers and More.

Creating Products For the Following:

Cottage Foods

Cottage Foods are home-made foods (ex: jams, peanut butter, foods, deserts, breads and more) that are legal to sell in farmer’s markets, direct to the public and local retailers and customers (depending on that state’s specific laws).
www.CottageFoods.us
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Commercial Kitchens

A Commercial Kitchen (also noted as a shared use kitchen, kitchen incubator, culinary kitchen and others) is a place in which individuals or businesses prepare value-added food products and meals, usually paying an hourly or daily rate.
www.CommercialKitchens.org
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Food Innovation Centers

A specialized facility that fosters the development and growth of new food products and technologies. It typically provides resources and support to entrepreneurs, startups, and established businesses in the food industry.
www.FoodInnovationCenters.org
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The Contract Packaging Association and the Co-Packing Network established the Contract Manufacturing Alliance as a prime resource for all aspects of consumer product manufacturing, catering to startups, emerging, and established brands.
Explore more at www.ContractMFG.org

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Pioneering Industry Standards in Contract Packaging & Manufacturing

Established in 1992, the Contract Packaging Association (CPA) is the national, non-profit trade organization dedicated to promoting the growth and welfare of firms in the Contract Packaging / Manufacturing industry and related businesses. We offer exposure and programs designed to foster growth within our member firms.

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A Century of Expertise in Consumer Product Manufacturing

The Co-Packing Network is a comprehensive national Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) advisory group deeply rooted in the diverse US and Canadian consumer product manufacturing industries. Celebrating our 100-year anniversary, our expansive history spans supermarkets, wholesaling, manufacturing, owning brands, and beyond.

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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.

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The Eight Arms of Manufacturing:

Cottage Foods

Cottage Foods are home-made foods (ex: jams, peanut butter, foods, deserts, breads and more) that are legal to sell in farmer’s markets, direct to the public and local retailers and customers (depending on that state’s specific laws).
www.CottageFoods.us
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Commercial Kitchens

A Commercial Kitchen (also noted as a shared use kitchen, kitchen incubator, culinary kitchen and others) is a place in which individuals or businesses prepare value-added food products and meals, usually paying an hourly or daily rate.
www.CommercialKitchens.org
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Food Innovation Centers

A specialized facility that fosters the development and growth of new food products and technologies. It typically provides resources and support to entrepreneurs, startups, and established businesses in the food industry.
www.FoodInnovationCenters.org
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Pilot Plants

A pre-commercial production system that employs new production tech- nology and/or produces small volumes of new consumer products, for the purpose of testing out recipes, product concepts, manufacturing sample runs and trying out new ingredients.
www.PilotPlants.org
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Contract Manufacturers

For any consumer product, a Contract Manufacturer that a brand group contracts with. This is a form of outsourcing. Other types include those performing packaging operations is called copacker or a contract packager.
www.Co-Packing.org
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Ingredients Packaging

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Private Labelers

A company that produces goods for retailers to sell under their own brand name. The manufacturer creates and packages the product according to the retailer's specs, allowing the retailer to offer a unique product without having to invest in their own manufacturing facilities.
www.PrivateLabeling.org
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CPG With Own Facilities

A-number of consumer product companies either have their own manufacturing facility or are looking to build one. The team helps with complete processes in either case (through partnering associations such as PMMI).
www.CPGMFG.org
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  • Supermarkets
  • Natural Retailers
  • E-Commerce
  • Food Service
  • Airports
  • Fitness Centers
  • Martial Arts Studios
  • Mass Merchants
  • Limited Assortment
  • Dollar Stores
  • Club Stores
  • Convenience Stores
  • Truck Stops
  • Colleges/Universities
  • Farm Supply Stores
  • Drug Stores
  • Sporting Goods
  • Sports Nutrition
  • Hospitals
  • Office Supply
  • Hotels
  • Hardware Stores
  • Auto Parts Stores
  • Produce Stands
  • Specialty Food Stores
  • Campgrounds
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The Contract Manufacturing Alliance (The Contract Packaging Association and the Co-Packing Network) work with a-number of communities with the common goal of helping start-up and emerging consumer brands:

The Contract Manufacturing Alliance is continuing to add Contract Manufacturers as partners of our programs including becoming members with the Contract Packaging Association and availing its own events in different parts of North America.
* Our Contract Manufacturer Roster is Over 40,000
* www.Co-Packing.org

The Contract Manufacturing Alliance (especially the Contract Packaging Association) welcome new and existing technology partners that are ideal for contract manufacturers, pilot plants, commercial kitchens, start-up and emerging brands and others in the industry.

The Contract Manufacturing Alliance is adding more and more trade associations (who have some form of association with consumer products).  We are adding both state-based and national trade associations to our roster (to help Consumer Product Companies).
www.ExpoManager.org
The Contract Manufacturing Alliance’s founders work with current State Departments of Agriculture (examples include Texas and Utah) as well are talking with others.  We plan on creating programs relating to states such as West Virginia and Illinois.
www.StateProud.com
The Contract Manufacturing Alliance created a ‘search by County’ Tool as well is adding more existing commercial kitchens everyday.  We are also helping create new commercial kitchens as well as recruit existing entities to offer their kitchens to clients.
www.CommercialKitchens.org

The Contract Manufacturing Alliance currently is involved with consumer product industry incubators and accelerators and continue to add others to their roster.  We all have the same goals of helping start-up and emerging brands.

The Contract Manufacturing Alliance has added a new sub-association model to the Contract Packaging Association’s roster to add in Pilot Plants.  CMA is also working with Pilot Plants nationwide to recruit them to work with start-up and emerging brands.
www.PilotPlants.org

The Contract Manufacturing Alliance has a roster of university based food innovation centers it has history with (ex:  UNL, Rutgers, Cornell) as well is creating a complete college and university incubation template to help others with their consumer product programs.

The Contract Manufacturing Alliance has Food Innovation Centers to its roster of manufacturing types.  We are working with Food Innovation Centers as a resource for their needs working with start-up and emerging brands.
www.FoodInnovationCenters.org

The Contract Manufacturing Alliance has history working with regional SBDC (Small Business Development Centers) and Score.org offices and are creating industry incubation and resources (Ex:  Commercial Kitchens search tool) to help their own clients.

The Contract Manufacturing Alliance is working with packaging and ingredient suppliers nationwide relating to start-up and emerging brands.  CMA created Ingredient Manager (IngredientManager.com) as part of its work with ingredient suppliers.
www.FoodInnovationCenters.org

The Contract Manufacturing Alliance has been advising start-up and emerging brands how to work with crowdfunding platforms (ex:  Kickstarter and Indiegogo) as well as funding groups (ex Kickfurther).  We will continue to add funding resources to our rosters.

The Contract Manufacturing Alliance’s founders have over 35-years working directly with retail and food service customers (including distributors).  We work with chains and distributors frequently helping introduce new vendors for them to preview.

The Contract Manufacturing Alliance has created incubation template for farmer’s markets to help their consumer product vendors as well is expanding its efforts in helping farms create retail stores (produce stands, farm stands and CSA’s).
www.ProduceStands.org

The Lemonaders Program: How It Works:

Lemonaders is a monthly program for start-up and emerging brands needing guidance on anything to do with the business. We personally mentor brands as well do get personally involved with core needs such as finding a commercial kitchen or contract manufacturer, setting up sales broker partners, creating territories, working with retailers and setting up 3PL partnerships amongst other subjects. We also avail our complete sales teams anytime as needed (Sports Retail Group, Baby Retail Group, Pet Retail Group, C-Stores Partnership, Farm and Feed Network and others).
* Just a simple call to us for any needs anytime

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Our New Community Tool: Squawkee

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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).
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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.
www.ContractPackaging.org

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