How to Scale Food Manufacturing: Outsource or Build? (David Ziskind – Black & Veatch) | FFT Podcast
In today’s #FoodForThoughtPodcast, get ready to dive into all things manufacturing strategy with David Zendisk from Black & Veatch and the NextGen Ag group.
Black & Veatch NextGen Ag helps companies bring new food, beverage, and agriculture technologies to life, emphasizing sustainability and scaling-up. Their team provides engineering, procurement, and construction services to clients working in the food & beverage, alternative proteins, industrial biotech, controlled environment agriculture, and aquaculture markets.
Black & Veatch NextGen Ag is the ideal partner to help emerge, and existing companies bridge the gap between science, research & development, engineering, and commercialization. Their team has a global presence employing 10,000 professionals across 100+ global locations.
Dive into all thing’s manufacturing strategy with EnWave Corporation’s podcast host Mike Wilkes. Find this episode and more in our #FoodForThoughtPodcast archives: https://www.enwave.net/food-for-thought-podcast/
Black & Veatch: https://www.bv.com/industries/food-and-beverageEnWave Corporation: https://www.enwave.net/
In today’s #FoodForThoughtPodcast (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/foodforthoughtpodcast) Nick Saltarelli, co-founder of Mid-DaySquares talks about disrupting the status quo in the #foodmanufacturing (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/foodmanufacturing) industry. Mid-Day Squares launched in 2018 with the intention of building out their own chocolate manufacturing plant and keeping the entire manufacturing process in-house. Their chocolate bars are 100% organic, gluten-free, plant protein-packed, fiber-rich, and functional. As the founders of Mid-Day Squares like to say, "Everything A Chocolate Bar Isn't, Everything A Protein Bar Wishes It Was."
Dive into all thing’s product development and manufacturing strategy with EnWave Corporation’s podcast host Mike Wilkes.
Episode Highlights: ► [ 3:40 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqYrr8Q7tkI&t=220s) ] Take us back to the day when you decided to build out your own chocolate manufacturing facility and decided to not use a co-manufacturing partner?
► [ 7:10 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqYrr8Q7tkI&t=430s) ] Why are so many food founders scared of building and scaling in-house manufacturing?
► [ 9:25 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqYrr8Q7tkI&t=565s) ] How did Mid-Day Squares scale with demand in mind from manual processes to automation?
► [ 12:18 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqYrr8Q7tkI&t=738s) ] Why do most products on the shelf end up looking the same? How did Mid-Day Squares keep differentiation?
► [ 14:37 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqYrr8Q7tkI&t=877s) ] What is the message to people looking to build their own company (food or other)?
► [ 19:55 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqYrr8Q7tkI&t=1195s) ] When you were in your kitchen and developing your first product ... when did you decide this was commercially viable?
► [ 22:37 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqYrr8Q7tkI&t=1357s) ] Did you start at the pricepoint and move backwards or was the pricing a function of the market?
► [ 24:48 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqYrr8Q7tkI&t=1488s) ] You go above and beyond with your own branding and the customer experience. What does that team look like?
► [ 27:24 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqYrr8Q7tkI&t=1644s) ] You share things with your audiences that are normally kept behind closed doors. What inspired this transparency and authenticity?
► [ 31:30 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqYrr8Q7tkI&t=1890s) ] Who have been some of your mentors or role models along the way?
► [ 35:11 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqYrr8Q7tkI&t=2111s) ] What's next for Mid-Day Squares? ► [ 37:04 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqYrr8Q7tkI&t=2224s) ] Where is the best place for people to find and try Mid-Day Squares?
► [ 37:48 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqYrr8Q7tkI&t=2268s) ] As someone who lives and breaths food all day, how do you re-connect with Food on a personal level?
9 Dec 2020
Pat Turpin (Popchips) - Building a National Brand | Food For Thought
Today's episode features Pat Turpin, Co-Founder of Popchips, the iconic popped potato chip that took the snacking world by storm. Pat is now a Senior Advisor and Board Member to CPG companies but reflects on building Popchips from an idea to a national brand with 30,000+ points of sale.
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