Got it. Just the food and beverage book then.
EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT THE FOOD AND BEVERAGE INDUSTRY BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASKTITLE DESCRIPTION
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You have a great product. You have no idea how the industry actually works. This book fixes that.
The food and beverage industry is one of the most seductive and most punishing businesses in the world. Thousands of entrepreneurs enter it every year with a great recipe, a compelling brand, and a complete misunderstanding of what it takes to survive it. Most of them learn the hard way. This book exists so you don't have to.
Bill Sipper has spent more than two decades inside the industry - building brands, managing distribution, negotiating with retailers, working with brokers, and watching companies with great products fail because nobody told them the truth about how the game is played. This is that truth.
What you will learn:
- How retail distribution actually works - and what buyers really want before they'll put you on the shelf
- The broker system: what brokers do, what they don't do, and how to manage them so they work for you
- Pricing and margin math: how to build a price that works for every layer of the supply chain without killing your own profitability
- What Whole Foods, Walmart, Costco, and regional chains each require - and why the same strategy doesn't work for all of them
- How to get into distribution without giving away the company to do it
- The mistakes that kill emerging brands in years one through three - and how to avoid every one of them
- What investors and acquirers actually look for when they evaluate a food and beverage company
This is not a book about passion or mindset. It is a book about the mechanics. The economics. The relationships. The decisions that determine whether your brand reaches national distribution or disappears from the shelf in six months.
If you are serious about building a food or beverage brand, this is the book you read first.
Sipper, Bill: - "Bill Sipper is the founder and CEO of Cascadia Managing Brands, a brand management and consulting firm specializing in the food and beverage industry. Over a career spanning more than two decades, he has built, launched, and scaled brands from startup to national retail distribution - navigating every stage of the journey that most entrepreneurs only read about.Sipper has worked across the full spectrum of the food and beverage business: product development, retail placement, distribution strategy, category management, pricing, packaging, and the countless operational decisions that determine whether a brand survives its first three years or becomes another cautionary tale. He has advised emerging brands, managed established ones, and built the kind of industry relationships that only come from doing the work at every level.Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Food and Beverage Industry But Were Afraid to Ask is the book Sipper wishes had existed when he started. It is a direct, practical, no-mythology guide to how the industry actually works - the economics, the gatekeepers, the margins, the retailer relationships, the broker networks, the distribution maze, and the unwritten rules that separate brands that scale from brands that stall. It is written for entrepreneurs who are serious about building something real and want the truth about what that requires before they spend the money to find out the hard way.Sipper is based in the United States. He can be reached through Cascadia Managing Brands at www.cascadiafoodbev.com"
