Simon Lévelt is famous for its premium coffee and tea, mainly sold via their specialty stores and online webshop. But as today’s consumer expect a 360 degrees availability, the brand’s ambition was to be available in the supermarket too. Food By Design was asked to facilitate an innovation process and translate the boutique brand [...]
For food start-ups it is extremely important to have a convincing story that clarifies why your company is here and what promise it has to change the world. Your license to operate This condensed yet engaging narrative should explain what you are doing differently and how it will create value. Value for investors, retailers, future [...]
More often customers and suppliers are working together to achieve innovation throughout the chain. In food, too, we see retailers and food producers increasingly cooperate with their suppliers of products, ingredients, packaging, machines or agricultural production tools. Together you are stronger It’s obvious, together you can do and know more than alone. An important starting [...]
Bakker Barendrecht is a fruit and vegetable supplier to Albert Heijn. Food by Design has facilitated an intensive innovation trajectory in order to develop an improved concept of the fresh meal box at the fruit and vegetable department. To this end, we have thoroughly analyzed what is involved for a consumer in meal planning, [...]
Veggies are stepping into the realm of sweet pastry, marking a remarkable evolution in culinary innovation. What once started as a daring experiment by pioneering pastry chefs has now transcended into the mainstream. Zeelandia asked Food By Design to illuminate this trend and create a vegetable concept aimed at inspiring more pastry chef to [...]
Verbufa is a supplier of machines and technical solutions in food. It was their desire to connect with their (potential) clients in an earlier stage of innovation processes and to think along with them about innovative solutions to produce new food designs on a large scale. Together with Verbufa, Food By design developed a [...]
In this blog we share five food trends for 2021. This is a little hint of our on-going food trend work. A foretaste. Curious about the whole story tailored to your category or market, please let us know. Food trend 1 #The agricultural future on your plate The production of our food weighs heavily on [...]
Many innovation or brand positioning projects start with live ideation or brainstorm sessions. Today, in corona times, this is not viable. Therefore, we need to rethink our way of working in creative, marketing and innovation projects. > At the end of this blog you can find a free downloadable mini-guide 'how to organise an online [...]
Corona will have a (lasting) effect on the way we buy, cook, eat and experience food. Now and in the future. For food companies important to understand and anticipate this change. In this blog we envision 5 directions for future food concepts. To understand how we came to these concepts, please read our earlier blog about [...]
Knorr's meal boxes have been a success for many years. It is a convenient way to put an internationally inspired meal on the table. Wholesome at the same time, as it is Knorr's mission to make consumers eat vegetable-rich. To stay relevant and surprising Knorr/ Unilever asked Food By Design to help them with an [...]