Food Entrepreneurs

THE "GO TO" PLACE FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN SPECIALTY FOOD MARKETING.

Connecting specialty food processors, suppliers, distributors, brokers and retailers.

Sell Your Specialty Food

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Sometimes I wish I had a clearcut, easy-peasy formula for writing emails to a list. A surefire method that I could wisely impart to others. No dice. Depending on product or market–what works for one business could fall flat for another. For ex...
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Do you sell your specialty food product from your website? What form(s) of payment do you take and do you find it user friendly to both you and your customer. Any problems? Any concerns?
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How did you go about distributing your product originally?
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Hello J, Let's define our terms: Retail Price is the price to the consumer. Wholesale Price is the price to the retailer. Distributor Price is the price to the distributor. To get to the Retail Price: Your exwarehouse price plus your profit ma...
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In Specialty Food (Gourmet, Whole Foods, etc) the stores expect to earn about 40% and the distributors between 20-30%. Brokers, which I recommend if you expect to sell in regions of the country in which you aren't able to market the product, take ...
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Welcome to the Food Entrepreneur Community

I'm Stephen Hall, author of "Sell Your Specialty Food" (the renamed 5th edition of "From Kitchen to Market" - and called "the go-to book for any start-up food company " by Oprah's Magazine. I created this community for specialty food entrepreneurs.

More than 12,000 new food products are introduced each year, of which 3,000 or so might be characterized as specialty foods. Do you have a specialty food product that you would like to take to market, or are you a supplier to the specialty food industry? If so, I invite you to join our community. Create a page and tell us about your business. (This will help you get more exposure). Join in the blogs, ask questions, and connect with other food entrepreneurs.

Blog Posts

IMKENOBI

MANAGEMENT STYLE - SCARCITY VS ABUNDANCE

This is from the July issue of Wired Magazine:

ELEMENT SCARCITY ABUNDANCE
Rules Everything is forbidden Everything is permitted
unless it is permitted. unless it is forbidden.

Social Model Paternalism Egalitarianism
("We know aht's best") ("You know what's best.")

Profit Plan Business model We'll figure it out

Decision Provess Top-down Bottom-up

Organizational Command & control Out of control
Structure

I am on the side of abundance, yet I thing the organizational structure is strategic… Continue

Posted by IMKENOBI on June 21, 2009 at 10:19am

IMKENOBI

SPECIALTY FOOD PRODUCTION - POWDERS

Hello,

Do any of you use powders, specialty powders, in the production of your specialty foods?

If so, can you share with me the types of powder?

Thank you.

Steve

Posted by IMKENOBI on June 15, 2009 at 5:30pm — 1 Comment

IMKENOBI

MONEY, MONEY. HAVE ANY OF YOU BEEN ABLE TO BENEFIT FROM THE SBA "ARC LOAN PROGRAM?"

Hello,

The following is from the 43rd edition of Food Entrepreneur Magazine:

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STOP PRESS!!!
ATTENTION small business owners who could benefit from the SBA 2009 Recovery Act.

SBA says:

- Deferred-payment loan up to $35k
- Must be an existing (minimum two years), viable, small business in the U.S.
- Funds can be given out over six months, followed by 12 months with no repayment of principal, followed by a repayment period of five years.
- SBA pays monthly interest to the bank.
- Mu… Continue

Posted by IMKENOBI on June 11, 2009 at 11:42am — 1 Comment

IMKENOBI

JOB AVAILABLE - VP SALES FOR CHOCOHOLICS

Chocoholics Divine Desserts
Vice President of Sales - Specialty Foods
Position Profile

Position Location
Corporate Headquarters, Clements, CA
Chocoholics Divine Desserts
San Francisco / Sacramento / Stockton Region

Company Websites http://gourmetchocolate.com


Company Overview
Chocoholics, a 15 year old privately held company, are a leader in the gourmet chocolate industry renowned for its ultra-premium chocolate, impeccable customer service, and innovative all-natural cutting-edge products.… Continue

Posted by IMKENOBI on March 20, 2009 at 9:27am

IMKENOBI

Take our mini-surveys

Take our mini-surveys and submit questions for future surveys and articles for publication in FE. Current survey is about "life before specialty food marketing." What did you do before you got the urContinue

Posted by IMKENOBI on December 21, 2007 at 4:05pm

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Suzanne Ryan

Energizing Your Email Marketing

Started by Suzanne Ryan in Promoting Your Product 1 day ago.

Pat Teagle

ecommerce

Started by Pat Teagle in Shipping Your Product 1 day ago.

Christine DAmico

Insurance for my product 2 Replies

Started by Christine DAmico in All About the Specialty Food Industry. Last reply by Rebecca Renzette Jul 8.

 
 

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