From the Contract Manufacturing Alliance Comes Help for Farmers and Ranchers Create Both Online and Brick-and-Mortar Retail Store-Fronts.
- The Team Also Helps Farmers and Ranchers Work with Co-Packers For Their Product Creation Needs
- The Team Also Can Help Advise Farmers and Ranchers How to Get Into Local Retail Stores
Programs for Farms
Co-Packing Help: The Contract Manufacturing Alliance Specializes in Helping Brand Groups and Others with Their Needs for Co-Packing (for Farmers – Processing) Their Products for the Marketplace.
Online Farm Stores: The CMA Team Has Internal Experts Available to Help Farmers (of All Sizes) Create Their Own Successful Online Retail Stores.
The Produce Stand and Store: The CMA Team Helps Farmers Create Their Own Farm Stands (Also Known as Produce Stands / Stores) Either on Their Farms or in Strategic Area Locations.
Area Sales Opportunities: The CMA Team Has Sales Teams in Most Key Parts of America Available to Discuss Sales Opportunities.
Produce Departments: The CMA Team Created ProduceDepartments.com to Help Brands with Their Retail Introduction Needs into Produce Departments.
ProduceStands.org: CMA’s Own Future Guidebook for Farm Stands and Farmer’s Markets in America.
The Contract Manufacturing Alliance (Contract Manufacturers, Pilot Plants, Private Labelers, Commercial Kitchens, Food Innovation Centers and More) Was Created to Be the Key Resource For Anything to Do With Manufacturing Consumer Products (For Start-up and Emerging Brands).
The Co-Packing Network is creating an incubation program specifically for local and regional brands that are sold at Farmer’s Markets nationwide. This new incubation model will be working with farmer’s market trade associations, produce associations and USDA in general to spread the word on the program.
Pioneering Industry Standards in Contract Packaging & Manufacturing
Established in 1992, the Contract Packaging Association (CPA) is the national, non-profit trade organization dedicated to promoting the growth and welfare of firms in the Contract Packaging / Manufacturing industry and related businesses. We offer exposure and programs designed to foster growth within our member firms.
A Century of Expertise in Consumer Product Manufacturing
The Co-Packing Network is a comprehensive national Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) advisory group deeply rooted in the diverse US and Canadian consumer product manufacturing industries. Celebrating our 100-year anniversary, our expansive history spans supermarkets, wholesaling, manufacturing, owning brands, and beyond.
The CPA’s Request for Quote (RFQ) tool allows an automated submission to CPA Members to securely submit their project details and needs. Your Request for Quote will be dispatched to CPA Members whose capabilities match your project needs, and if they can assist you, will contact you directly about their services and capabilities.
The team manages the request all-the-way through to end up with successful results. We also can become a project manager to manage the whole process (search, secure and work with one or more contract manufacturers).
The Contract Manufacturing Alliance
Creating products for the following:
Local and Regional Farmers Markets
Our incubation program connects consumer product entrepreneurs with kitchens, co-packers, and pilot plants nationwide, perfect for farmer's market operators and vendors.
Local, Regional, National Retailers
Together with our own internal and external sales partners, we help place products (retailers, e-commerce) that consumer product entrepreneurs make with their manufacturing partners. Our own www.RetailFormats.com showcases all of the retail and food service formats that are ideal for placements.
Local, Regional, National Food Service
We help entrepreneurs place their products with manufacturers in retail and food service locations via our sales partners. Check out the ideal formats at www.RetailFormats.com.
Local, Regional, National E-Commerce (Internal / External)
We create e-commerce platforms and Amazon relationships for client brands using our internal and external sales partners, with customers like Thrive Market, Abe’s Market and Wayfair.
Our Search By County Tool: Commercial Kitchens
We created the 'Search By County' Tool to help food industry start-ups find the ideal commercial kitchen (also known as a commissary kitchen, kitchen incubator) in their area. We list the commercial kitchens by county and by zip code.
Look for our other programs relating to help with working with farmer's markets; our commercial kitchen incubation programs for clients of commercial kitchens and our own efforts helping create new kitchens.
Our family has been involved within the consumer product industry (US based manufacturing, retailing, distribution) since the early 1920’s. From the first generation to the latest, our best practices have been handed down over time leading to a long legacy of successes in the business (manufacturing, retailing, distribution and more).
Contract Packaging (CP) is the official magazine for the Contract Packaging Association, published three times each year by PMMI Media Group (owners of Packaging World magazine). Dedicated exclusively to contract packaging issues and news, each issue is overseen by Editor-in-Chief, Anne Marie Mohan.
20,000 qualified packaging professionals receive each edition of CP. These professionals are individuals who have indicated that they have purchase involvement in contract packaging and related services and products. Magazine recipients are also contract packagers, who are CPA members.
www.ContractPackaging.org
