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SUMMARY:Expand Your Food Service Business
DESCRIPTION:Join our partners at Natural Source Sales for an intermediate training on how you can expand your distribution and increase your sales in alternate food service channels. \nDuring this live training\, Greg Arz and Chef Andy will share details about where there is growing demand in food service for innovative\, healthier food and beverage options\, and share how you can take advantage of the demand and expand your business into verticals like: \n\nRestaurants: Learn how to collaborate with chefs and partner with restaurants.\nBusiness and Industry: Get your products into companies like Google\, Meta\, and LinkedIn.\nCollege & University: Launch onto more campuses\, including micro kitchens and micro-markets.\nHealthcare: Sell into healthcare facilities and hospitals through vending machines and micro-markets.\n\nLeave this session with a clear understanding of these thriving verticals and where you can focus to grow your sales and distribution. \nOpen to all: \n\nIncluded with Evolve and Emerge Programs or an Annual Learning Pass\n$47\n\nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://emergecpg.com/event/expand-your-food-service-business/
CATEGORIES:Distribution,Food Service Sales
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SUMMARY:Business Masterclass: Alternate Food Service Channels
DESCRIPTION:Join us to learn about the many\, many opportunities for your brand in the exciting foodservice/away-from-home channel. \nThe food service channel can seem confusing and daunting like putting a 5\,000-piece jigsaw puzzle together. We will simplify putting the puzzle together and chat about the operator/end-user as the key and distributor/re-distributor partners as secondary\, but obviously necessary. \nDuring this live learning seminar\, we’ll review and discuss: \n\nThe many existing\, new and sub-channels within food service (i.e. unattended retail)\nBroadline (Sysco\, USFoods\, Shamrock\, Ben E Keith Gordon\, etc) and specialty distributors as well as re-distributors\nThree letter acronyms; GPOs (Group Purchasing Organizations) and OCS (Office Coffee Service) and more..\n\nThere will be plenty of time for Q&A. Leave this session equipped with ideas for your brand in the foodservice channel! \nBusiness Masterclasses are included with an Emerge membership. \nGuests are invited to join for $49. \nSAVE MY SEAT! \n 
URL:https://emergecpg.com/event/business-masterclass-navigating-food-service-in-current-times/
CATEGORIES:Channel Strategy,Food Service Sales
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SUMMARY:Emerge Smarter: Foodservice & Away From Home Channel
DESCRIPTION:Gain a clearer understanding of the overall foodservice channel landscape\, as well as each of the specific segments within foodservice and away from home channel. Learn which foodservice/away from home segments could be a good fit for your brand. \nWe’ll cover C&U\, B&I\, GPO’s\, QSR’s\, and the many more TLA’s (three letter acronyms) in foodservice. \nAttend this webinar to learn: \n\nFoodservice/Away from Home Channel 101 & 6 fun foodservice facts\nWhere the foodservice industry has been\, where it’s going and who and and what’s changing\nWhat segments make up foodservice: role or operators\, distributors (broadliners and specialty)\, chain accounts and much more\nHow to focus on key anchor accounts and opportunities in foodservice to help initiate and drive distribution\nOff-shoots of the foodservice channel such as meal kit deliveries\, Good Eggs\, Third Party e-comm Imperfect Foods\, goPuff\, DoorDash/DashMart etc.\n\nThere will be ample time for questions and conversation about this fun\, fascinating\, and profitable foodservice channel. \nWe look forward to you joining us for this fun and useful conversation!
URL:https://emergecpg.com/event/emerge-smarter-evaluating-alternate-food-service-channels/
CATEGORIES:Channel Strategy,Food Service Sales
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SUMMARY:Emerge Smarter: Growing Your Brand Through Food Service
DESCRIPTION:Join this education seminar hosted by Emerge mentor Matt Cotton\, Founder of Rooted Food Sales\, a new kind of Foodservice broker who specializes in growing “better for you” brands in the channel! \nMatt will help us understand how the Foodservice channel is evolving and where opportunities lie as things begin to open up during Covid and beyond. He’ll share an overview of the Foodservice space\, and areas that CPG brands can consider as they evaluate whether the Foodservice channel is right for them\, and how it could be part of their overall channel strategy. \nIn this session\, you’ll learn: \n\nWhat Foodservice is\, and what categories it consists of\nWhat brand/product attributes are important in Foodservice\, and how the sales process works\nHow to support and grow distribution once you’re stocked\nWhat the “cost of doing business” is in Foodservice vs. retail\nHow to grow your brand through Foodservice\n\nWe look forward to a de-mystifying Foodservice for you and getting you excited about this powerful channel! \nCurious about how your team can reach your growth goals and scale sustainably with Emerge? Schedule an intro call
URL:https://emergecpg.com/event/emerge-smarter-growing-your-food-service-channel-in-2021-beyond/
CATEGORIES:Channel Strategy,Food Service Sales
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