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About Sparkling Innovation
Having worked with most major high street retailers on own label, numerous food service companies and various Brands in both chilled and frozen products there are a multitude of areas that are covered off in the journey of launching a new line.
Concept generation
- Market review, benchmarking & gap analysis
- Range reviews utilising market data & category insight
- Concept generation and brainstorm facilitation
- Research & deliverance of innovation workshops
Feasibility
- Concept cost and market viabilty
- Focus Groups
- Review of pack format and potential Capital Expentiture
Kitchen concept
- Sourcing new raw materials and packaging
- Theoretical nutritional and conformance to applicable guidelines
- Sample submissions ? product & documentation
- Critical path management
- Concept Vs competitor analysis
- Cost control
- HACCP & process flow
Factory scale up
- Recipe scale up
- Cap-ex justification
- Pre-purchase equipment trials
- Machine comissioning
- Factory trials
- Pack copy information generation
- Specification and factory process data capture
- Product attributes
- Process procedure documentation
Launch
- Staff training
- Quality and efficiency improvements
- Value engineering
- Troubleshooting
- Pre-production facilitation
- Customer support
- Auditing systems
- Post launch review
In addition to the New Product & Process Development experience and knowledge, the exposure to technical, quality assurance and commercial management provide a balanced and informed way of working that can provide business advantage.
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