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    • What we do
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Featured
Don’t Miss Out! Food Edge Digital 2020
Branchfood Events, Branchfood News
Don’t Miss Out! Food Edge Digital 2020
Branchfood Events, Branchfood News

Food Edge is Branchfood’s annual summit that fosters connection and collaboration between industry stakeholders across the food value chain. The Summit seeks to support industry networking, raise awareness about new innovations and products launching in market, and inspire us all to support a better future for food. Branchfood believes that together, we will lead the future of the industry, and we’re particularly excited to see New England based innovators take a leadership role in this change.

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Branchfood Events, Branchfood News
Navigating the Food Industry with Kalahari Snacks
Branchfood Events, Industry Insights, CPG
Navigating the Food Industry with Kalahari Snacks
Branchfood Events, Industry Insights, CPG

Tyler Noyes, Branchfood Mentor in Residence, is the Co-Founder of Kalahari Snacks, a packaged food brand that brings South African inspired biltong and crisps— air-dried beef snacks—to America.

To continue Branchfood’s support of the food & beverage community, we recently had the pleasure of hosting ‘Ask an Entrepreneur’ with Tyler, where he shared insights on his company’s launch, the R&D process, how to expand your distribution market, and more. Check out our upcoming events designed to help you achieve your goals, and continue reading for Q&A highlights.

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Branchfood Events, Industry Insights, CPG
Branchfood's Food Trends to Watch
Branchfood News, Industry Insights
Branchfood's Food Trends to Watch
Branchfood News, Industry Insights

Originally a Meetup group for those in the food community to connect and share resources, Branchfood has evolved into New England’s largest community of food entrepreneurs and innovators. Through our active network, industry expertise, and curated resources, we connect industry leaders with innovative entrepreneurs, supporting the collective effort to build a better, healthier, more environmentally friendly and equitable future for food.

As leaders in the food innovation space, the Branchfood team weighed in on one of the biggest and pertinent questions in the food industry: what is one food trend that you’re excited about?

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Branchfood News, Industry Insights
Launching Allergen-Friendly Consumer Products with Freed Foodies
Member Highlights, CPG
Launching Allergen-Friendly Consumer Products with Freed Foodies
Member Highlights, CPG

Freed Foodies founder Daniel Brassloff was dissatisfied with gluten-free pizza and other baked good options on the market. After being diagnosed with tree-nut allergies in 2000 and Celiac in 2006, he has tried his best to support brands making great products for those who follow a gluten-free diet. After starting his gluten-free microwave-made mug cake business, MuggedCake, with a few of his peers at Babson College and spending a semester abroad in college studying Gastronomy at CETT university, he set out to experiment with flour blends and come up with a formulation he knew he could stand behind.

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Member Highlights, CPG
Using Video to Elevate Food Brand Marketing and Awareness
Member Highlights, Marketing, Technology
Using Video to Elevate Food Brand Marketing and Awareness
Member Highlights, Marketing, Technology

Driven by passion for innovation and humanity’s growth, Tom Dodge and the team at NewView.Media guides brands through pre-production, filming and video editing to craft creative content that engages, educates and encourages action. In 2019, the company produced 413 videos across 85 marketing, event, and fundraising campaigns! All of Tom and his team’s dedication and hard work has paid off — NewView.Media earned “Best Business Video Marketing Agency - Greater Boston” from Corporate Vision Magazine’s Media Innovator Awards.

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Member Highlights, Marketing, Technology
Balancing Family, Nutrition, and a Successful CPG Business with Little Pickins
Member Highlights, CPG
Balancing Family, Nutrition, and a Successful CPG Business with Little Pickins
Member Highlights, CPG

Providing nutritious, delicious food for her family was always important to Branchfood member Jenn Bingham, but with a busy work schedule, it wasn’t always easy — she is a working mom, Physician Assistant, and certified natural foods chef after all! When Jenn couldn’t find a healthy frozen food option that her young daughter would love, she decided to take matters into her own hands. After meeting Co-Founder Kelly Wannier, the two launched Little Pickins, which offers nutritious, gummable, frozen finger food for ages 10 months plus.

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Member Highlights, CPG
Bringing Mindfulness to the Local Food Movement with Fork on a Road
Member Highlights
Bringing Mindfulness to the Local Food Movement with Fork on a Road
Member Highlights

Inspired by a lifetime of vegetarianism and the diversity of flavors sourced from around the world, Branchfood member Suman Shah set out to launch Fork on a Road. Suman founded this food-centric business on the belief that cooking is an opportunity to be present and connect with loved ones. She is using her 20+ years of experience in marketing, strategy and collaboration to grow Fork on a Road and provide vegan and vegetarian meal kits, specialty spices, recipes, cooking classes, and chronicles that nourish life.

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Member Highlights
On the Perillas Menu: Dignity, Respect, and Bibimbap
Food Service, Member Highlights
On the Perillas Menu: Dignity, Respect, and Bibimbap
Food Service, Member Highlights

This week, our Member Monday campaign highlights James Choi, founder of Perillas, a fast-casual Korean eatery specializing in bibimbap, a traditional Korean rice dish topped with vegetables and meat. Through a career in finance and consulting, James saw just how much leadership and culture affects the workplace. Attending Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary to learn about Workplace Leadership and Ethics, he started shaping Perillas’ culture and values rooted in the treatment of people with dignity and respect; a focus on people which ultimately creates more value than focusing primarily on profits; and sharing in the joy of delicious and healthy Korean food in a fast, convenient, and affordable way. Following the launch of Perillas catering and a temporary pop-up location, James is opening a permanent storefront in Bow Market this summer. Read on to learn about the inspiration behind the company, mission-driven businesses, and more.

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Food Service, Member Highlights
How Instituting a Proper S&OP Process Can Bring Clarity to your Cashflow
Partnerships, CPG, Industry Insights, Branchfood Events
How Instituting a Proper S&OP Process Can Bring Clarity to your Cashflow
Partnerships, CPG, Industry Insights, Branchfood Events

Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is a monthly business management process that integrates quantitative data from different parts of the business, with the goal of driving better decisions around production planning, purchase order management, sales strategy, and product development. Simply put, the S&OP process refers to the regular communication between sales and operations departments to ensure smart cash decisions are being made. The S&OP process is critical for the success of CPG brands. A broken or non-existent S&OP process can lead to problems such as spoilage deductions, forecasting mishaps, and negative distributor balances. In fact, the number one reason brands reach out to advisory firms like Rodeo CPG is because something unexpected has happened that could have been prevented with a proper S&OP process.

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Partnerships, CPG, Industry Insights, Branchfood Events
Building Products that Customers Trust: Learn how Rootastes Launched One of Boston's Leading Catering Businesses
Member Highlights, Food Service
Building Products that Customers Trust: Learn how Rootastes Launched One of Boston's Leading Catering Businesses
Member Highlights, Food Service

Member Monday continues this week with a spotlight on Mint Pattanan, founder and CEO of Rootastes. After moving from Thailand to Boston for graduate school, Mint founded Rootastes in 2016 with a mission to change the way office employees eat their lunch. Rootastes is designed for companies run by people who believe that taking good care of their team is smart business and the right thing to do. In addition to office lunch delivery, Rootastes recently launched their Fresh Baskets service. These weekly farm fresh baskets deliver a mix of fresh fruits, seasonal veggies and proteins plus local goodies. Rootastes is offering Branchfood followers 10% off their first Fresh Basket order — use code BF10 at checkout!

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Member Highlights, Food Service
What is the single most important process contributing to the success of a CPG brand? Rodeo CPG's Top Tips for Success
CPG, Branchfood Events
What is the single most important process contributing to the success of a CPG brand? Rodeo CPG's Top Tips for Success
CPG, Branchfood Events

We’re thrilled to share our next installment of Member Monday featuring Kevin Mannering, Partner and Chief Operating Officer of Rodeo CPG. This week, Branchfood partnered with Rodeo CPG to host a webinar titled, “Where’s My Cash? How Instituting a Proper S&OP Process can Bring Clarity to your Cashflow”. If you missed it, head to our YouTube channel to watch the event recording and learn why optimizing Sales & Operations (S&OP) communication is the single most important process contributing to the success of a CPG brand.

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CPG, Branchfood Events
Delivering the Farmers Market to Your Front Door with Market 2day
Member Highlights, Food Technology
Delivering the Farmers Market to Your Front Door with Market 2day
Member Highlights, Food Technology

Up next in our Member Monday campaign is Insa Elliott, co-founder of Market 2day. Insa’s background in technology and business strategy led her and her co-founder, Stephanie Marmer, to launch a solution for making local food more accessible to Greater Boston community. The Market 2day app seeks to support the local food community and bolster sustainability by giving farmers a direct-to-consumer (DTC) delivery platform and allowing consumers to shop small.

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Member Highlights, Food Technology
Bountiful's Restaurant-Quality Meals from Home
Member Highlights, Food Service
Bountiful's Restaurant-Quality Meals from Home
Member Highlights, Food Service

This week, Member Monday features Julian Cohen, Founder and CEO of Bountiful Kitchen. Bountiful is a community-driven dinner delivery service based in Somerville that works with local chefs, farms, and artisans to provide a fresh and seasonal rotating dinner menu featuring restaurant-quality dishes. Keep reading to learn about launching a business during a pandemic, partnering with local farms and chefs, and more. Don’t forget to check out Julian’s Instagram takeover on our Member Monday highlight!

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Member Highlights, Food Service
Tasting Global Flavors with Naturel Juicing
Member Highlights, CPG
Tasting Global Flavors with Naturel Juicing
Member Highlights, CPG

Our third installment of Member Monday highlights Nagélore Jean-Caïdor, founder of Naturel Juicing. Naturel Juicing creates fresh, nutrient dense, 100% raw cold-pressed juices, with no additives, preservatives or chemicals. These juices have globally-inspired flavors and seek to support a healthy life. Keep reading to learn about the process behind creating health-forward juices, balancing a day job with founding a startup, and more. If you missed Nagélore’s Instagram takeover, head over to our Member Monday Highlight to check it out.

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Member Highlights, CPG
Health + Flavor — The Perfect Recipe for FlavaNaturals Chocolate
Member Highlights, CPG
Health + Flavor — The Perfect Recipe for FlavaNaturals Chocolate
Member Highlights, CPG

Member Monday continues with a spotlight on Alan Frost, Founder of FlavaNaturals. FlavaNaturals specializes in performance-fueling (and tasty!) dark chocolate and cocoa powder products delivering cocoa flavanol levels proven to enhance brain, cardio and metabolic function. Keep reading to learn more about Alan’s successful career and the driving force behind FlavaNaturals. And, if you missed the Instagram sorry, check out the Member Monday Highlight on our page.

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Member Highlights, CPG
Discover Spritzal Cookie Company + Branchfood Member Monday
Member Highlights, CPG
Discover Spritzal Cookie Company + Branchfood Member Monday
Member Highlights, CPG

At Branchfood we strive to support the efforts of our industry-leading members and highlight their great work in many ways. To that end, we launched Member Monday, a campaign that seeks to support members’ and their efforts in building industry transformative businesses. Tune in to check out our members taking over our Instagram and revealing what inspired their entrepreneurial pursuits, how they launched their products, and what is in store for their future.

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Member Highlights, CPG
Branchfood x Off Their Plate Team Up to Provide F+B Products to COVID-19 Medical Workers
Branchfood News, COVID-19
Branchfood x Off Their Plate Team Up to Provide F+B Products to COVID-19 Medical Workers
Branchfood News, COVID-19

Branchfood is thrilled to announce our partnership with Off Their Plate, a grassroots movement that was just stated in Boston and expanding nationally, to provide meals to frontline medical workers in partnership with leading restaurants. The organization is moving very fast as the pressure is quickly building on our hospitals.

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Branchfood News, COVID-19
COVID-19 Weekly Newsletter Collection
COVID-19, Industry Insights
COVID-19 Weekly Newsletter Collection
COVID-19, Industry Insights

A weekly newsletter dedicated to supporting the food community amidst COVID-19, brought to you by Branchfood. Sign up here to receive the newsletter right to your mailbox and check out our collection of issues in this post.

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COVID-19, Industry Insights
Food-Related Initiatives
COVID-19, Community News
Food-Related Initiatives
COVID-19, Community News

The food industry is deeply affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Here is a collection of food-related local initiatives. Please consider supporting these initiatives that support your local food economy and those in need.

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COVID-19, Community News
Financial Resources for COVID-19 Relief
COVID-19
Financial Resources for COVID-19 Relief
COVID-19

We have compiled a list of resources for financial help during the time of COVID-19 that will be updated frequently.

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COVID-19
COVID-19 Information and Resources from Branchfood
COVID-19
COVID-19 Information and Resources from Branchfood
COVID-19

As we continue to provide resources for our community during this difficult time, we want to give you the most up-to-date news about COVID-19 as we too are closely monitoring the situation. Stay tuned for updates regarding Branchfood programming as we follow the spread of the virus more closely.

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COVID-19
A Message to the Branchfood Community
COVID-19
A Message to the Branchfood Community
COVID-19

As we continue to navigate the unprecedented COVID-19 situation, our dedication to providing the Branchfood community with resources and relevant information is even more pertinent. Please stay safe and healthy, help your local community when possible, and learn how Branchfood and its community can help you navigate these challenging times.

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COVID-19
Celebrating Food, Startups, and Entrepreneurship at the annual Branchfood Holiday Bash!
Branchfood Events, Community News
Celebrating Food, Startups, and Entrepreneurship at the annual Branchfood Holiday Bash!
Branchfood Events, Community News

On December 17th, we hosted the annual Branchfood holiday bash celebrating another successful year of food, entrepreneurship, and community development in partnership with Clover Food Lab in Boston’s Financial District. We were thrilled to again welcome so many of our wonderful members, friends, and sponsors to the event.

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Branchfood Events, Community News
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Announcing the 5 Canadian Food/Foodtech Companies Expanding to the USA!
Partnerships, Branchfood News

We’re thrilled to announce the first cohort of food and foodtech startups participating in the Branchfood x Canada program in Boston this Fall! This partnership provides an opportunity for Canadian entrepreneurs growing food and food-related businesses to develop relationships and partnerships to expand their activities to the US retail market and further contribute to the future of food. Check out the participating companies and let us know if we can help you connect with them!

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Partnerships, Branchfood News
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Partnerships, Branchfood News
Announcing Branchfood's Partnership with the Consulate General of Canada in Boston
Partnerships, Branchfood News

BRANCHFOOD ANNOUNCES PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CONSULATE GENERAL OF CANADA IN BOSTON Driving food innovation by helping Canadian entrepreneurs expand to the USA

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Branchfood Events
Revolution Retail - Our first ever pop-up store in Boston highlighting the future of food!
Branchfood Events

Revolution Retail was the first of its kind popup store showcasing emerging retail technologies and innovative CPG food and beverage brands from Boston and beyond. Branchfood, in partnership with Foodboro, Roche Bros Supermarkets, Survey.com, BREX, and the Faneuil Hall Marketplace built Revolution Retail and hosted GMDC and Retail Tomorrow’s Boston Immersion tour attendees welcoming 80+ national retail executives to experience the future of food. Revolution Retail launched in the heart of the Faneuil Hall Marketplace on Thursday, July 18th with a sold-out Community Event including 150+ attendees and remained operational until Sunday, July 21st. Over the course of just 4 days, we had more than 1K+ visitors from different walks of life and nationalities and were thrilled to share these startups with the community.

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Branchfood Events
2018 - The most successful year to date for New England food startups!
Community News
2018 - The most successful year to date for New England food startups!
Community News

Entrepreneurs in the greater Boston area are accomplishing incredible things, like mapping the global food supply chain, landing major funding for robot restaurants in partnership with culinary celebrities, leading positive food system change through new food recovery initiatives, creating novel biofilms, and a whole host of others are inspiring massive food industry evolution. Branchfood isn’t the only one to notice either! This past year, we launched Branch Venture Group - a network of angel investors seeking to fund food startups and made four investments to date! Branch Venture Group’s portfolio currently includes Open City, Willie’s Superbrew, Waku, and Ocean Approved.

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Member Highlights
Know Your Food Entrepreneurs #7: Liat Racin, Founder and CEO of Tamim Teas
Member Highlights

An Interview with Liat Racin, Founder and CEO of Tamim Teas. Liat first learned about medicinal mushrooms when her good friend contracted an immune deficiency disease and was recommended to integrate functional mushrooms into his diet for immune system support. She soon started to carefully pair these functional mushrooms with tasty organic herbs to enhance the flavor and health properties of each mushroom, all-naturally. She strives for her community to enjoy medicinal mushrooms in the same way they have been used for centuries, in a tea, and without any processed ingredients from unknown sources. Nothing brings her more joy than sharing the gift of a delicious mushroom tea that stays true to tradition.

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Member Highlights
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Member Highlights
Planting the Seeds of Growth - How Bohana is Bringing One of India’s Favorite Snacks to the U.S.
Member Highlights

Our blog series, “Five Food Startups Winning the Branding Battle,” is all about founders at rising startups in the Branchfood community who are launching the next wave of exciting food brands. We spoke to five incredible founders about product development, branding and marketing, and the success stories they’ve experienced so far. Wrapping up our series is Nadine Habayeb, cofounder and CEO of Bohana, a snack food brand selling popped water lily seeds. Join us as we hear from Nadine how she and her cofounder, Priyal Bhartiya, built their own global supply chain, why brands have to reflect consumers’ lifestyles, and the harrowing story of how they made it to Expo West this year.

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Member Highlights
Member Highlights
Making Mealtime More Mindful - How Kinsho is Getting People to Slow Down and Pay Attention to Food
Member Highlights

Our new blog series, “Five Food Startups Winning the Branding Battle,” is all about founders at rising startups in the Branchfood community who are launching the next wave of exciting food brands. We spoke to five incredible founders about product development, branding and marketing, and the success stories they’ve experienced so far. Part 4 features Heather Sears, founder of Kinsho (formerly Kensho Kitchen), a retailer of kitchen products based on the idea of mindful eating and food choices. In this interview, you’ll learn Heather’s approach to starting her own online retailer, how her mission drives her decision-making, and why she’s changing the name of her company.

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