FROM INCEPTION TO THE SUPERMARKET SHELVES
Are you an entrepreneur with a exciting idea or concept for a food or drink product?
Do you have a great home-made recipe, but you're not sure how to scale up and commercialise for major retailers and distributors?
Taste creators provides turnkey solutions to help you create high quality commercial scale food and drink products that meet the standards and the requirements of the food and drink industry.
Or are you
Current Food Manufacturer who needs one off projects to be delivered, to develop pipeline development plans, in order to get ahead of competitors, keep or gain market share, and explore new categories / formats whilst not increasing permanent resource head count. We will bring expertise’s backed up with industry standard validated consumer insights, ensuring you limit the risk of investment.
Taste Creators supports their partners, with a highly confidential professional new product development service. We consult on projects that we are passionate about, can use our expertise to bring to life. We pride ourselves on working at pace, to cost and always delivering on to agreed time scales.
NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
When moving from a home-made recipe to a commercial product there are a lot of new realities and challenges start-up businesses face. We are here to help you get over the hill and into factory production with the following services;
Recipe & flavour development
The Taste Creators are foodies at heart with a strong culinary background working in Michelin star restaurants and producing quality products for the likes of Waitrose and M&S. Taste is at the core of everything we do, we will help you find the right balance of flavours to create a great tasting product for your target consumers.
Ingredient sourcing from certified suppliers
We source all ingredients from BRC or Salsa approved suppliers that provide full traceability in order to help you meet the requirements for trading with UK supermarkets.
Packaging development
We can help with the innovation of packaging to allow the product to be showcased in its best form, or the use of packaging for functional benefits such as life extension or simply packaging developed to hit a price point.
Product costing & maximisation
Ensuring your product hits the right cost price is critical to success. When developing your recipes we work towards your cost targets and scrutinise each ingredient and the value-add for the final product. We aim to strike the perfect balance between taste and cost-effectiveness.
PRODUCT ANALYSIS
Benchmarking Analysis
We can review the competitors in any sector and build a detailed report to allow clients to better understand the market in which either they wish to operate or currently operate allowing targeted product development to take place.
Shelf-life Testing
We work with laboratories to help determine the shelf-life of your product, a requirement for all packaged food and drink products. We help you understand ingredients and manufacturing techniques you can deploy to improve shelf-life and profitability of your products.
Nutritional Analysis
We build your nutritional and ingredient declaration for your packaging and marketing communications. We help you navigate the nomenclature of health claims and what you can declare.
Organoleptic Testing
We can arrange for full product sensory testing, conducted by trained, industry leading assessors which allows a really strong position when pitching to retailers.
DELIVERY
Factory Selection
We have a strong knowledge of reputable manufacturers who will work with start-ups throughout the UK. We will help you create a shortlist and find a manufacturer that is best suited to your needs.
Factory Scale Up
We work with your manufacturer to ensure the right processes are used to scale up your recipe, ensuring product quality and consistency is maintained at high-levels of production.
LAUNCH
Trial Management
We can attend your pilot production run to help overcome any obstacles and ensure everything goes smoothly.