Course: How to Launch Your Own Food Product

Merchandising is the process of presenting and promoting retail goods for sale. It involves nonverbal tactics that retailers use instore to promote product sales. Retailers use effective store layout to …

You have reached the end of Week 2. This week you have costed your product, developed your prototype and its ‘gold standard’, kept detailed notes on your product such as …

Congrats on completing week 4! This week we focused on marketing your product, your brand, packaging, labelling, merchandising, promotion, and personal selling. You had an opportunity to develop your own …

Your marketing strategy is your plan of action designed to promote and sell your product or service. Earlier in this course we discussed the 5P’s of marketing, we are now …

Promotion is any communication between sellers and customers, potential customers or distribution channel members designed to impact attitudes or behaviours towards a product and can include: Advertising Publicity Sales promotion …

Setting a price for your product should not be haphazard, a thumb suck. Pricing should be aligned to your business identity, brand, financial stability, and personal goals. Firstly, when developing …

Food labels help consumers make informed choices about the products that they purchase by providing nutritional or consumer information. Labels also indicate any precautions they need to take for example …

Food packaging is one of your strongest tools you have when marketing your product. Food packaging design’s primary function is to attract. You only have 1/10th of a second to …

The marketplace has become more diverse, and competition has increased. New technologies as well as an affluent society have created a need for products that fit the food safety, lifestyle, …

Once you have collated your feedback you need to evaluate the comments and determine any adjustments that you need to make to your product.

Up until now your product has only been tested in small quantities to reduce the cost of production. Once you have your prototype and made the necessary changes, the product …

When developing your prototype may need the expertise of someone who is a specialist in food technology. For example, if you have identified a salad dressing product, you will need …

At this stage we are going to stop our discussion about product development and spend a bit of time explaining how to calculate food cost and selling prices. Understanding costing …

A prototype is defined as an early sample, model, or release of a product built to test a concept or process. It is a term used in a variety of …

Let us stop the development process for a moment and reflect on a few things that you need to remember when developing your food product. Hygiene and your Food Control …