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Cross Channel Scorecards create a personalized sales presentation to communicate your brand’s success and growth factors. Scorecards help your team understand your current performance across channels, and can be leveraged to drive expansion and revenue opportunities. Receive ongoing SPINS Partner thought-leadership content releases which include trends, presentations, infographics, and webinar invitations. Emerge members, log in to get started.

• 3 months access to the Bedrock SaaS platform
• Nielsen Point-of-Sale (POS) data displayed and visualized in Bedrock
• Customized consultation with Bedrock team to discuss how to use data to sell into more retailers

&Marketing provides the robust outsourced marketing department that growing companies need without the high overhead costs of traditional agencies or full-time employees. &Marketing’s variable model empowers businesses to reach their growth goals by launching or augmenting their existing teams and receiving guidance and expertise from senior level strategists and a flexible execution team. &Marketing provides your team with what you need, when you need it — delivered with flexibility, transparency, and jargon-free language. No drama, just marketing to help you reach your goals. Emerge members, login to schedule your website review and marketing analysis.

Amplify Goods specializes in launching and growing new and existing brands on Amazon.com. We focus on helping product manufacturers develop their direct-to-consumer sales by implementing SEO, branding and marketing strategies specific to e-commerce marketplaces. Our goal is to make brands look great on Amazon. Our services include: Amazon Account Strategy Strategic Account Setup Listing Optimizations Full Account Management Amazon Sponsored Product Ads (PPC) Emerge members, login to schedule your customized Amazon account review.

BrandFirst is a woman-owned, family-run branding agency founded over 35 years ago. Core competencies include brand strategy, identity development, strategic messaging, package design, marketing communications, website design & development, and social media content. With roots in print and production, they’ve evolved into a full-service creative agency that works with companies of all sizes. We partner with emerging brands to help them find their niche and grow into successful businesses. Emerge members, login to schedule your brand positioning audit.

83% of small businesses are never profitable. And 88% of small business owners could actually make more money doing the same work for someone else. Learn how to set up the simple – yet genius – Profit First cash flow management system so you can get out of the cash-flow survival trap and start growing your business profitably, while eradicating debt and paying yourself what you’re worth. Learn how to implement this intuitive cash management system in your business so that you can continue to thrive without stressing over your company’s finances … even if looking at your books is the last thing you ever want to do!

Emerge members, log in to schedule your intro call and get started with an exclusive 5-week program. 

Created specifically for selling into grocery, convenience, and specialty stores by a real grocery store owner, Mable’s wholesale ordering platform and mobile app make it easy for independent grocers to order from CPG companies online and in the aisle. Mable streamlines the ordering process for retailers and CPG brands and extends net 45 day terms to retailers, making it easier for stores to stock products. Emerge members receive an exclusive trial to start selling and grow their wholesale business on Mable. #WholesaleSimplified

Emerge members: login to your private portal Dashboard to get started!

Specialty Food Partners (SFP) operates private online marketplaces for grocery wholesalers and distributors who want to sell more specialty products to their stores. Expand your distribution network and ship your products directly to stores with SFP:

• Make your products available to multiple distributors and their retail customers in the SFP Marketplace
• Distributors’ retail customers have the ability to easily view and order Emerge member products
• Single point of contact for sales and order history for all the distributors in the SFP network
• No set up fees, no slotting fees, and no surprise chargebacks

Emerge members, login to the private portal to get started.

The Good Trends is the gourmet food wholesale marketplace built for shared success. It enables store buyers to discover, buy and purchase the local brands their consumers crave in a one-stop-shop platform offering an exceptional selection in one single point of purchase. The Good Trends helps brands grow in three ways: 1. Reach new stores in our community of 250+ specialty store buyers 2. Streamline your orders & invoicing. We give stores a net 30 payment, you get paid End of Month with a single point of invoice. 3. Grow your brand awareness and sales. We run local advertising for your brand around the store you are retailed into to increase your sell-out. Learn more about The Good Trends Emerge members, log in to your private Dashboard to get started!

Natural Products Field Manual Eighth Edition Authors Bob Burke & Rick McKelvey

• 4 volumes, 44 chapters of “go to market” content enriched by the insights and commentary of 66 industry CEO’s, retailers, brokers, distributors and experts
• Flash drive with directories of stores, buyers, brokers, distributors, budget models and PR lists
• $100,000 in coupons for services,
• Receive half-day consulting with Bob Burke that can be structured flexibly.

Ideal for anyone bringing natural, organic, specialty, or imported products to market. It pays for itself many, many times over. Not just for startups, the manual has been used by large mainstream companies, long time, experienced natural and specialty products companies, smaller organizations and many investors, consulates, consultants, publishers and educational institutions.

Brandjectory is an online meeting place for innovative early-stage CPG brands and investors to discover each other, make connections, and develop relationships on the path to partnership. Brandjectory combines the best of social media, instant communication and secure file distribution tools to foster connections, communication, and document sharing between entrepreneurs and accredited investors in the fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry. Tell your story, post updates about your milestones and achievements, share documents discreetly, and build relationships with relevant investors. Learn more  Emerge members: login to the private portal to get started!

RangeMe is the leading product discovery and sourcing platform where retailers and suppliers discover, connect, and grow their business. RangeMe has become even more vital to the CPG industry since the COVID-19 disruptions, as their online platform helps growing brands stay engaged with retailers.  Emerge members, log in to get started with RangeMe premium account.

Perishable Shipping Solutions (PSS) is a pick & pack order fulfillment warehouse focused on eCommerce for perishable foods including frozen, refrigerated and chocolate products. With warehouses located in Ohio and Nevada, PSS can service 93% of the US population with 2-Day ground shipping with FedEx.  Combined with eco-friendly packaging materials, PSS provides its customers with a cost economical way to scale in the fast growing direct-to-consumer market. Learn more Emerge members, log in to your dashboard for more details.

Emerge mentor Alli Ball, former grocery buyer turned food business consultant, helps food industry professionals succeed in launching & growing their packaged food businesses. Through one-on-one consulting and her online group course, Retail Ready™, Alli helps producers understand what it takes to get their products on the retail shelf, and keep them there. She shares the behind-the-scenes secrets and thought process of wholesale buyers as they assess new products for their stores or online marketplace.  Emerge members – login to access Retail Ready resources in the private portal!

Fairfield Partners performs executive search assignments for innovation driven growth companies in the information technology, consumer products and digital healthcare sectors. We are a retained firm focused on C-level executives through mid-level management roles.

As former operating executives in successful high growth companies, we understand the skills and cultural makeup necessary to thrive in this dynamic environment. We have leveraged this knowledge to help many CEO’s attract high impact performers to their teams.

We are driven by an uncompromising commitment to provide talent that helps our clients to achieve their vision. 

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Jebbit is a marketing platform that allows you to create beautifully branded, no code, interactive experiences that capture 1st party data.  Create experiences such as product matches, personality quizzes, trivia and live polling as ways to drive high engagement and data capture from consumers.

• Create simple lead forms, surveys, landing pages and many forms of interactive experiences
• Start with our template and then customize with your logo, colors, fonts and images
• Build personalized journeys based on how consumers answer each question
• Deploy across any channel via unique URL’s for tracking or QR codes
• Capture the 1st party data attributes you need to personalize their experience
• Optimize with real-time analytics

In today’s fast-paced world, CPG retailers and suppliers need to be closely coordinated to ensure that business runs at speed and scale. Data has to be ready at any time, and this means the need to communicate dynamically and efficiently about sales activities, inventory levels, promotions, pricing, discounting, category performance, and more. With Crisp, retailers and distributors share a live, real-time feed of sales and inventory data all in one place – keeping shelves stocked and customers happy. Learn more.

proquo ai is SaaS brand management platform using live consumer intelligence to understand value, diagnose unique strengths and opportunities for your brand, and get prescriptive guidance to improve your marketing effectiveness and grow your market share. Emerge members, log in to get started with your demo and consultation.

OTHRSource provides one-stop flexible, on-demand national in-store support/merchandising services to brands across big box, traditional retail, convenience store, drug & independent retail formats. Emerge members receive OTHRSource Core Service and exclusive store visit package. Core Service includes:

• Shelf Cleanup & Date Rotation (before & after pictures)
• SKU Count per product
• Planogram Integrity Audit
• Real-time Price Check (your brand and competitor products)
• Backroom to shelf movement on product out of stocks (OOS)
• Forced orders with store managers (if needed and applicable)
• Real-time data feed for each store visit

Login to the private portal now to schedule your customized consultation with the OTHRSource team to discuss your ongoing merchandising strategy, and to get started!

Emerge Member Benefits:

• Compliance Management subscription: manage your company’s regulatory and supply chain risk as you grow.
• Product discovery listing on ReposiTrak MarketPlace: get discovered, meet new buyers and grow your sales. List your products in the fastest growing supplier discovery platform in the industry.

ReposiTrak provides suppliers with a robust, interoperable solution to protect their brands and be retail-ready for new and growing retailer relationships. The ReposiTrak platform includes: Compliance Management – a one-stop solution for automating management and compliance of required documents and regulatory records.  The solution receives, stores, and shares documentation; and generates dashboards and alerts for missing, expired or inaccurate records. Supply Chain Solutions – sell more, stock less and see everything with the suite of supply chain solutions from ReposiTrak. From scan-based trading, direct-store-delivery, store-level ordering and vendor managed inventory solutions, we work with you to create more sales, eliminate out-of-stocks, and reduce shrink with your retail partners. MarketPlace – enables suppliers to capitalize on their commitment to safety and transparency for new products, additional need, or simply to replace non-compliant suppliers which retailers or wholesalers may currently be using.

For more information about the SQF Fundamentals Program and to learn more, contact Julie Pryor 

Global Recruiters of Madison (GRN) is an executive recruiting firm in the Natural Products Industry with expertise in the U.S., Canada, and Europe.

• Since 2005, GRN has placed 500+ “difference makers” in sales, marketing, quality, operations, product development, regulatory, and the C-suite.
• GRN partners with natural food, beverage, dietary supplement, and personal care brands ranging from founder-led start-ups to billion-dollar publicly traded companies.

Ready to expand your team by adding an industry “difference maker”? Not ready to hire yet, but interested in a conversation about your current team, goals and next steps? That’s what we’re here for! Emerge members, log in to the private member portal to set up initial consultation with GRN team.

Raveler helps eliminate burnout for small food companies by offering simple solutions for production, inventory, and asset tracking. A lightweight, cloud-based alternative to big ERP platforms. Pick and choose the features that suit your needs: Inventory Control

• Quick, easy counting.
• Set pars at multiple locations.
• Get emailed reports every time stock is counted.

Batch Management

• Automatically generate batch numbers.
• Track ingredient lots.
• Easily record information to comply with regulatory authority.

Container Tracking

• Use QR codes to scan and update status information for kegs, crates, and other durable assets.
• Know exactly where your fleet is at any time.
• Order labels through Raveler or print them yourself for free.

Special Discount on Emerge mentor, Patrick Nycz’s book “Moving Your Brand Up The Food Chain”