Retail Brands: Consumer-Pleasing Products From Discovery to Commercialization
Are you looking to launch, reformulate, or revive your food brand? CuliNEX helps brands reach their goals and satisfy consumers’ evolving tastes. Our nimble and cost-effective approach results in innovative, shelf-ready products.
Retail Brands: From Whitespace to Commercialization
CuliNEX offers a disciplined yet flexible, creative, confidential approach to developing, optimizing and scaling food products designed with consumer needs in mind. We leverage our 20 years of expertise in food development and innovation to deliver new or revived products rooted in fertile market opportunity spaces and formulated to scale seamlessly to manufacturing. We can fill any competency for your success. Our secret ingredients? Curiosity, a passion for food, open communication and the powerful combination of food science and culinary arts.
Elevate your expertise
CuliNEX extends your competencies with the skills, strategies, and expertise to bring your food business to its full potential.
Our Staff is Your Staff
- We co-create IP that stays with your brand.
- Our goal is your success, from product development to commercialization.
- Food innovation experts since 2005, we’ve got both experience and industry knowhow.
- Over 300 years of team experience in food development and innovation.
Product Development Pros
- Opportunity, ideation, concept development. When it comes to whitespace exploration, we translate trends into thoughtful and articulate food concepts that can be tested with consumers. At all stages of innovation, we deliver creative solutions while assessing feasibility of final product scale up to manufacturing.
- Launch success. Whether you’re exploring the viability of an emerging concept or optimizing a trusted formula, we’ll equip you with insight, expertise, and technical tools.
- Commercialization. We'll equip you with insight, expertise, and action plans to get your CPG food to market.
- A range of offerings. We provide labeling support, contract manufacturing identification and vetting, plant trial and first production support, post-production standard operating procedures and specifications development and on-going quality management.
We’ve got an expert and a process for that.
Does your strategic plan reach beyond your internal resources? Is there an expertise gap in your organization? Our Culinologists work to meet your needs, working as an extension of your team. Some services include:
- Market Research & Concepting. We stay ahead of trends through research and market exploration and translate our insights into strong consumer concepts.
- Product Design & Formulation. Our Culinologists craft delicious taste profiles that resonate with consumers and incorporate the latest ingredient technologies, aligned with the manufacturing process.
- Project Management. Our team follows a rigorous project management process to keep the work moving on time and on budget.
- Ingredient Sourcing. Find the ingredients that align with your concept, consumer preferences, and sustainability goals.
- Manufacturing Support. We identify contract manufacturers who can scale up your product successfully. If you already have manufacturing capability, we collaborate with production to ensure that formulations will meet guardrails.