"Creating Lifestyle
Food & Beverages"
Intelligent Ingredients,
31878 126th Street,
Princeton, MN 55371
Phone: 763-432-3703
Fax: 763-631-9659

Intelligent Ingredients

Food & Beverage:
Product Development & Contract Services

Product Development

• Food & Beverages, from bench top formula creation to commercialization
• Trend Analysis- Food, beverage, culinary and culinology applications
• Trends Strategies- Integrated sales and marketing strategies as they apply to 2008 and beyond.
• Product Applications- Specialty retail, National/regional chains, Industrial & Foodservice outlets
• New product introductions- Sales & marketing strategy
• Nutritional analysis & food labeling
• Organic certification- Laws, application and education
• GRAS- (Generally recognized as safe) Laws, application and education

Education

• Understanding “State of the Industry”, the business of food and beverage product development and manufacturing as it applies to you!
• Distributor product introductions- Training for sales, brokers and marketing executives to present product cuttings to distributors

Retail Consulting

• Coffee café`, deli and snack bar- Operations training, sales and marketing
• Convenience Store- Product packaging, sales applications and POP marketing Misc.
• Food styling & photography
• Public Speaking

Misc.

• Food styling & photography
• Public Speaking

New Menu & Product Strategies

Develop Programs with:

• Sales & Merchandising impact
• Equipment impact / utilizing current manufacturer
• Frozen and/or ambient storage applications
• Distribution; working into current system(s)
• New product resources through recipe development and training
• Value-added capabilities of existing products through “Reverse Menu Engineering”
• Consumer learning tests (CLT’S) on new products to gauge value and demographics
• Geographic studies and input based on trends and manufacturing locations (FOB Where?)
• Presentations, cuttings and tasting’s at customer’s facilities (For both quality, and/or to compare to current competitors products)
• Internet- How it applies to your current sales model

Manufacturing & Packaging

Applications

• ASEPTIC (Dairy, Soups, Heavy viscous liquids, Beverages)
• RETORT (Dairy, Flavor systems, Beverages)
• MAP (Modified Atmosphere Packaging; shelf stable, refrigerated or frozen foods)
• PET (Cold or hot fill) plastic or glass beverages
• RTD (Ready-to-drink) plastic or glass beverages
• BIB (Bag-in-box) beverages and syrups
• BLENDING- Dry mix systems
• DRYING- Spray, drum, freeze and refracturance
• Food Service- Pre-Mix and Dispenser applications
• Frozen Meals- Acetate trays with shrink wrap overlay
• Form and Fill bags, any type - Nitrogen and/or Co2 flushed and filled applications
• Polypropylene bags (Sauces, liquids)
• Cook-Chill (Sauces, liquids)

Rates

Contracted “Daily Rate” Retainer

• Daily Rate- $1,320 per 8 hours, Minimum of one day
• Per Month- Minimum, 3 Days / Maximum 10 days
• Per Year- Minimum, 6 months / Maximum one (1) year
• Final quoted rates depend on contract length
• All rates will be charged customary & usual per deem and travel expenses

• $5,000- Corporate team building, according to group/input needed
• $1,100- Single Chef or scientist participant CLT/Consumer research-
• $5,000 + Depending on clients needs. Does not include facility rental, meals, postage, etc.
• Qualitative – Focus group facilitation, follow-up results, target direction suggested
• Quantitative – (CLT) Central location tests, on-line questionnaires, follow-up, course of action steps, results analysis

SKU Gold Standard formulation (From ideation to creation)

• $1,320- Per SKU, Signature SKU formula, using specified ingredients (Not commercialized)
• “A SKU” is defined as: one type of product, one flavor profile
• A total of 3 flavor varieties for each SKU will be submitted - For example: A mango spring roll is considered one SKU, a teriyaki flavored spring roll is considered a second SKU, even though it is still a spring roll

Commercialization / Pilot Plant Test Run-When under contract

• $1,320 per day (8 A.M.-5 P.M) contract rate
• $1,750 per day, (8 A.M.-5 P.M) non-contract rate
• Does not include travel to plant, lodging, pilot plant rental charge or ingredients, packaging, etc.

Trade Show Representation

• $800 - $1,500 per day (Depending on show & contract length) Client provides transportation, lodging, per diem, set-up, break down, equipment, marketing materials, chef jackets, ingredients and/or samples Food styling and photography-
• $600-$1,200 per day, per person; Chef, stylist and photographer; Booked on half day/full day Travel Expenses-
• All travel expenses will be pre-paid using client corporate credit card
• Hotel- Marriot or Hilton flag accommodations (Average’s $125-$250 per night)
• Customary and usual expenses will be paid with a 75% deposit;
• Remaining balance @ 14 day billing terms.
• Fee’s included but are not limited to: Lodging, airfare, car rental, mileage and per deem.
• Per Deem- USA @ $75 per day, International @ $150 (Includes Canada)
• Travel day Fee’s (Non-Contract)

Mileage Guide

• 1-100 miles (Local) – Mileage, plus $100 per hour/ Car Mileage .585 per mile
• 101-300 miles, mileage, plus $250 per day
• 301+ miles, plane flight and $500 per day
• International- plane flight and $750 per day