FAQ
Your Questions Answered: Navigating the World of Brand Licensing
Frequently asked questions
BRAND REPRESENTATION
What is Brand Representation?
Brand representation is our service of promoting food & beverage brands or brands that want to enter the food & beverage category, to enhance their market presence through licensing. We help brands increase visibility, attract new customers, and drive growth through strategic food & beverage partnerships. As seasoned professionals, we leverage licensing to benefit your food & beverage business or help your brand enter the retail food & beverage market.
How Do You Match Brands with The Right Partners?
We use comprehensive market research and our extensive food & beverage industry network to identify partners and retailers whose values, goals, and target audiences align with your brand. This approach ensures sustainable partnerships in the food & beverage retail sector that drive both short-term and long-term growth and revenue.
What Strategies Do You Use to Create Impactful and Unique Brand Licensing Programs?
Each program is tailored to your brand’s specific goals, ensuring it resonates with your target audience to stand out in the competitive food & beverage retail marketplace. We immerse ourselves into learning everything about your brand – its values, its positioning, its image, its audience and its place in consumers’ lives. Those insights are blended with market and trend analysis as well as creative product ideation to create an impactful licensing blueprint. We then identify the right-fit partners that can bring this vision to life with exceptional products that will delight consumers.
How Do You Measure Success of a Brand Representation Program?
We measure success using key performance indicators (KPIs) tailored to each of our client’s individual goals. These typically include brand awareness, sales growth, market share, and royalty revenue. We provide on-going reports that allow clients to track their program’s progress in the competitive food & beverage retail landscape.
MANUFACTURER REPRESENTATION
What does Manufacturer Representation mean and how can it benefit my business?
In today’s highly competitive marketplace, products need to stand out at retail. We represent manufacturers to identify and acquire the right brands and properties for your existing or new product lines. This benefits your business in several ways: by increasing product visibility on retail shelves, expanding market reach and lifting your products above the competition. All of which helps your products jump into consumers’ shopping carts driving sales growth.
How do you help manufacturers identify the right brands for their products?
Our goal is to match food & beverage manufacturers with right-fit brands that enhance your market positioning at retail and appeal to your target consumers. We immerse ourselves into your product for a full understanding of its market positioning, target audience, market share and future goals. We combine this understanding with market research and leverage our industry connections to identify brands that complement your food & beverage products.
What Factors Do You Consider When Evaluating Potential Brand Partnerships for Manufacturers?
Key factors include brand awareness, image and reputation, alignment with consumer popularity and tastes and its potential for long-term growth in the food & beverage space. We also look to the depth of a brand’s commitment supporting its licensing partners to both launch and sustain the products at retail.
How Do You Ensure That a Manufacturer’s Products Stand Out in a Competitive Marketplace?
We help our food & beverage manufacturing clients stand out by strategically aligning their products with popular and recognizable brands. We identify and assist in the process of securing partnership agreements with top consumer brands that will generate significant buzz when extended into new food & beverage product offerings. This approach allows our clients to create unique, attention-grabbing items in their product categories, helping them capture consumer interest and stand out on grocery store shelves in a competitive retail environment.
GENERAL QUESTIONS
What Is Brand Licensing, and How Can It Benefit My Business?
Brand licensing allows a company to use another company’s brand, logo, or intellectual property for a fee. It can expand your product offerings, increase brand visibility, and drive new revenue streams.
What Sets Your Agency Apart From Other Licensing Agencies?
For almost 30 years, we’ve been exclusively focused on food & beverage brand licensing, giving us an expertise unmatched in the industry. This dedicated knowledge has earned us recognition as one of the Top 20 Best Licensing Agencies by License! Global Magazine for 14 consecutive years. Our long-standing focus on food & beverage brand licensing has enabled us to create award-winning retail programs and deliver substantial results for our clients in this fiercely competitive category.
Can You Help Manufacturers Identify and Acquire the Right Brands for Their Products?
Yes, we represent manufacturers to help them identify and acquire the right brands and properties for their existing or new product lines, ensuring their products stand out in today’s competitive marketplace.
What Types of Brands and Manufacturers Have You Worked With?
Our agency has worked with some of the world’s best-known consumer brands and manufacturers including Burger King, Subway, Playboy, Guinness, Farm Rich Foods, SeaPak Seafoods, Wyler’s Light, Fla-Vor-Ice, Old World Foods, Hard Rock Café, Jel Sert and many more. Our extensive experience allows us to craft authentic and impactful licensing programs that create long-term revenue streams for clients.