How to start an industrial food production business

There is a wide variety of foods that are consumed in large quantities and on a regular basis by most people. Examples of these consumables are: cookies, breads, yogurts, dressings, pickles, jams, granola, among others.
Launching an industrial food production business requires planning to find a marketable niche product that can win a local or regional audience.
Successful entrepreneurs are those who start food businesses continue to strive to satisfy customers in order to build a business that meets the needs of their customers and is profitable. To achieve this, most implement the following keys:
Identify an opportunity and develop an idea
Develop a coherent idea related to your experience, such as: turning a family recipe into a food business.
Finding an opportunity for a food business at an industrial level boil down to the possibility of taking a market need and exploiting it through a scalable business.
For example, making tasty foods for people with diabetes is one way to develop a niche product that can appeal to the needs of a specific target market.
Food businesses need to conduct market research to learn about packaging, pricing, and how their niche product can penetrate a market full of brand names.
Select the ingredients and quality of the raw material
Choose the ingredients and select the wholesale suppliers
Raw materials (ingredients, processing aids and packaging materials) are the basis of industrial food products.
As such, they must meet the safety regulatory requirements and specifications necessary to contribute to the functionality and process quality of your final product.
As your company grows, these requirements become more complex and the information you will ask suppliers about the raw material will expand within your own specifications. At a minimum, this information should include technical and food safety information, detailing:
The name of the product and the item number of the supplier
Components or material composition
The presence of regulated or customer-recognized food allergens
Organoleptic information (appearance, flavor and aroma)
Pertinent physical, chemical and microbiological information
Shipping and storage information
Duration or expiration.
Find a physical space for the business
Lease a space and convert it into a commercial kitchen or industrial-scale food processing plant.
The space must not only be suitable for your budget, but the interior design must be adapted to the specific needs of your business.
Including the appropriate machinery to process the raw material implies designing a workflow that will allow an alignment between machines and human personnel. This will reduce your production costs significantly, as you will save time and money. It is the key to making your business efficient!
The workspace can also be strategically chosen according to the proximity to the harvesting site where your raw material is produced.
Choose local products that are grown near your community. Thus, you will save money on the transfer of merchandise, offer a fresh product and allow you to be close to your main buyers or clients.
Plan the distribution
Starting a wider distribution of your products can be through local supplier programs, by nationally or regionally recognized supermarket or restaurant chains. Entering these markets allows the staggered growth of your business and, therefore, its profitability.
Finding strategic partners that are in charge of distribution can be through alliances by means of some type of commission or discount; Building relationships of trust and reciprocity can be a strategic move as you invest in a transportation fleet.
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Pub: 09 Aug 2022 10:55 UTC
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