The Business of Food Blog
information to help you start a new food business or grow the one you have
Create an irresistible Brand for your food business
As part of the lunchtime bites session The Business of Food held during May 2020, Jane Del Rosso spoke with Clare Blackstock from Blade Creative to understand more about her passion for brand development, how she supports her clients and works with many to grow their unique brand and business over time.
Tips to manage a growing food business
When you get head down buried on working in your business, it can be hard to stop and refresh your perspective and work on your business. A fresh perspective is critical to making sure your business adapts to your customers needs and changes in the marketplace. Here are our 5 tips to assist you look anew at your business and then develop an action plan to implement change.
Our 5 tips for understanding the Food Labeling laws
Understanding the Food Labelling laws, is one of the hurdles lots of new food producers struggle with. Our five tips will give you the confidence to understand what you need to do and how to get expert advice to ensure you are legally compliant and ready for sales.
Our 5 tips to refresh your perspective about your food business.
When you get head down buried on working in your business, it can be hard to stop and refresh your perspective and work on your business. A fresh perspective is critical to making sure your business adapts to your customers needs and changes in the marketplace. Here are our 5 tips to assist you look anew at your business and then develop an action plan to implement change.
Seven hot tips for a new retail food product
In the last decade, the food trends have varied dramatically year on year, especially in 2020. However the trend of plant based meals is here to stay, with room for new retail food products to meet an exponentially growing demand. Here’s our hot tips & a case study on how to bring all the ingredients together before you launch.
Taste Success by exporting your Artisan Food Product
The export market is a tantalising goal for many artisan food producers, especially with Australia’s high reputation for quality food products. However, to taste success your business needs to be export ready.
The value of professional food photography
Lee Biderskovy from Lee Bird Photography is a food and product photographer -but her passion is definitely food. With her former career as a journalist, photographer was always in the background and when she became a Mum 12 years ago it gave her the opportunity to launch as a photographer with a focus on family and newborns.
Understanding your Unique Selling Point
Any business needs a clear USP - a unique selling point/proposition. The retail shelf is a crowded space, so here are our tips on how to develop a USP that helps you stand out from the crowd.
Website design to support your business
Meirav Dulberg from Webby Web Design is a web designer and web developer who focuses on developing the functional structure of a client’s website first to deliver on the functionality a client needs. Then she will work with the branding of the business to merge in visuals with functionality.
Looking for a distributor? An insider's top tips on what they are looking for.
If you are ready to grow your business and are looking for a distributor, then be prepared to answer their questions. A distributor will choose your business just as much as you choose them, so work through our checklist before making contact.
Essential marketing tips for your food business
Agatha Ionnau from Emporia Marketing uses her background in corporate work to assist small businesses develop effective marketing strategics to help them grow their business. Her business ethos is to guide small businesses on how to maximise their brand and product awareness in the marketplace with tactical marketing projects.
The IT advice your small business needs
Matt Kuter established ITgeniq to assist those getting their own small business going to assist them design their IT system from the beginning so it supports their business operations from the beginming and makes it easier to grow their business over time.
Is your work meaningful?
If you are looking to make a change in your life, then joining The Business of Food Incubator could be what you are looking for.
What’s new with The Business of Food
Welcome to our updated website, that makes it easier to find the information you need on how we provide practical advice to own a successful food business.
Can you turn food waste into a new food product?
More and more customers are expecting food manufacturers to be conscious of their environmental footprint, when they pack their product, source ingredients and manage their food waste created during production. Is this an opportunity for your business.?
Not sure how to get started? Try Accelerating your Food Dream
It can be tough setting up your new business so try looking out for an Accelerator Program that can make it easier to get going.