Since 2006, on every side of this industry: founder, operator, trade press, now manufacturer. Four federal permits under one roof. We take a small number of brands each year, and I know what happens to yours after the run.
Four federal permits mean we can follow a brand across categories without you changing manufacturers when the product moves. Most co-packers hold one of these.
Sleek and standard cans, kegs, bottling, retail-ready pack-out, full QA and seam verification logged on every run.
Most co-packer websites describe a service. This is the equipment. If a line here cannot run your format, you should know that before you talk to us, not after.
If your retailer or channel requires a certification we do not hold yet, say so in your application and we will tell you honestly whether the timing works for you.
Co-packing relationships are competitive information. Your competitors will not learn where you produce from us. When a client chooses to publish their own run, as Rite Energy did below, we are glad to point to it. That decision is always theirs, never ours.
Rite Energy's pilot run coming off the line at 81 Morton Street. Their product, our building, their footage.
Posted by Rite Energy on Instagram
Twenty years in beverage. Founder side, operator side, and a stretch inside the industry's trade publication watching thousands of brands succeed and fail, which is a different education than running your own.
Recurring co-host on BevNET's Taste Radio Elevator Talk, where early-stage founders pitch their brands and get feedback from industry operators. Same thing we do here, in public.
Plus strategic advisory for a good number more. I have been in beverage since 2006, on every side of the table this industry has: brand founder, operator, trade press, advisor, and now manufacturer.
The gaps in co-packing were personal. Small brands treated as afterthoughts. Minimums that blocked launches. A disconnect between what founders needed and what the industry offered. So I built the thing I wished had existed when I was on your side of it.
Most co-packers will sell you production. Very few of them have ever had to sell the product afterwards.
A lighthouse does not carry your cargo. It tells you where the rocks are, and then you sail. Almost every brand starts at the first step, because it is the cheapest way to find out whether the rest makes sense.
Four weeks of my time on your problem. Formula reviewed against what a real line will do to it. Permit path. True landed cost from real quotes. What has to be locked and when. You keep the written brief whether or not you ever produce with us.
Strongly recommended if you are still developing a formula. Most brands that skip it end up paying for the same answers later, on a production day.
Your first commercial run. From 100 cases, on a production line, retail-ready and sellable. Not a bench batch. You walk away with product and a production spec that transfers straight to volume.
Volume, once we both know the product works and the spec is proven. By then you are not a stranger asking for a quote. When you outgrow us, we say so and introduce you to who is right.
I read every one of these personally and answer within 48 hours, including the ones we are not right for. If we are not a fit, I will tell you and point you somewhere better.
No pitch deck. No formal proposal. Tell me where the brand is, what is in your way, and what you are trying to do next.
If you already have a co-packer and things are working, say that too. Sometimes the right answer is to stay where you are, and I would rather tell you that early.
The form is the only way to start a project. It is not a formality. It is how I decide where my time goes.
Framingham, Massachusetts
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