Food Product Development

Experts with over 25 years’ worth of experience in many different industries MacEwan Associates can help you take your new product from Concept through to Launch. We specialise in all areas of Food and Drink Product development consulting on existing projects, improving existing ranges or creating a bespoke package tailored to your business’ requirements. Our list of available Food and Drink Product Development services can be found below, we can assist with just one step in the process or many, dependent on your requirements.

  • Concept

    Taking your concept and turning it into your product prototype! We take the time to help you to understand your target market and create a recipe which meets your requirements this might include: certain nutritional values, ingredient choices, flavour profiles, specific consumer requirements and shelf life.

  • Sourcing Ingredients

    Sourcing ingredients for your recipe. Ingredients will need to meet the cost, quality and scale requirements outlined in your brief. Costs and specifications for ingredients and packaging are included as part of this service.

  • Safety and Stability

    We can support you in ensuring your product is safe. This involves reviewing your product’s ingredients, ensuring your packaging doesn’t contaminate or degrade your product, testing your product for stability and ensuring it meets certain microbiological criteria using a local laboratory.

  • Improve the Product

    If your product is too expensive, or not retaining its quality or nutritional value. Improving your product can help ‘fix’ these problems.

  • Kitchen to Factory

    Guiding you through the process of taking your product from the kitchen table right through to the factory floor. Including advice on scaling your product, identifying suitable factories to produce the product, labelling, and packaging advice and ensuring your product is marketed to the correct target market. We can offer as much or as little support as you need.

  • Choosing the 'right' Manufacturer

    Defining your manufacturing requirements. What are the costs, what is the quality like? How quickly do you need to be able to scale your products? These are all questions that we can help you to answer to help you identify and choose the right manufacturer for your product.

  • Product Claims and Labelling

    A product claim is what helps a consumer choose your product and brand over a competitor; choosing a claim and making sure you have all the right labelling in place can make quite a difference to your sales.

  • Create Product Documentation

    We can help you to gather together all your important product documentation for the product, packaging and related also any related information such as origin certificates and help you ensure your product is labelled up correctly.

  • Become Production Ready

    Helping you to become full scale production ready. This involves sourcing ingredients, assisting with packaging, and labelling and ensuring that production requirements are met. We can help you set the initial processing criteria and refine them for final production.