5 Critical Insights Data Gives Food Manufacturers Selling to Retailers

July 31, 2023
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In Part 1 of our “Data-Driven Selling” blog post series, we outlined why it’s so important for manufacturers to have food industry data analytics in 2023. In this post, we drill down to highlight specific key data available to food manufacturers selling to retailers. More importantly, our Director of Perishable Sales and Business Development, Erin McCulloch-Crume, shares how these critical...

Top 6 Considerations for Retail-Ready Food Packaging

April 21, 2022
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As a retail food broker that has been in the industry for nearly 30 years, we’ve seen the following scenario many times. A food manufacturer’s sales team goes in to pitch a new product to a major retailer. The product is great, in almost all aspects. But there’s one small thing – like the package is one-half inch too long...

5 Retail Food Trends to Watch in 2022

April 1, 2022
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To remain a leading grocery broker in the Southeast and best serve our clients, the team at Bay Food Brokerage is committed to staying up-to-date on retail food trends. In this post, two of our Account Executives, Greg Betz and Lindsey Baron, share their insights on: Why it’s important for food manufacturers to understand retail food trends How the right...

5 Tips for New Food Manufacturers

October 28, 2021
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Our Owner, President and CEO Cammie Chatterton has worked in the food industry for over thirty years. In fact, she was one of the first women in the country to open a retail food brokerage company, in 1993. Currently, Bay Food Brokerage is one of the fastest-growing businesses in Tampa Bay, where we’re based. So, to say Cammie knows a...