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Innovation & Product Development

Your partners in brand expansion
and custom foods

Where fresh ideas come to scale

When you partner with The Fresh Factory, you get more than a private label copacker. Our innovation and R&D experts provide everything you’d expect from custom food manufacturing companies, with a focus on clean label, better-for-you food. 

That includes:

Commercialization

Our passion is Honest Food for All — we’re not only experts in making your vision a reality, but we know how to get it out to the masses. From concept to consistency, we help brands scale their ideas into commercially viable products that can be manufactured at volume, handling the technical scale-up, regulatory compliance, and product optimization.

Food product development & line trials

Making products at scale requires food line trials to ensure quality and consistency as you grow. We run trials on production lines, sample, and refine to ensure your recipes taste as good as they did in the kitchen.

Food line expansion

Ready to expand your brand into new SKUs or flavor variations? Flexible MOQs and turnkey manufacturing make us the ideal partner for food company growth. Better yet, we’re committed to growing alongside our clients and can take you from initial proof of concept to full production.

 

In 2024, The Fresh Factory produced over 314 different SKUs for 41 different brands

A Food Innovation Case Study: From Concept to Costco

When an existing customer approached The Fresh Factory with a bold snack idea, we kicked things off the scrappy way, hand-packing snacks into pre-formed pouches. The proof of concept? A huge success, with nearly 1 million pieces launched into Whole Foods.

With strong demand and a growing fanbase, we teamed up to engineer and install automated packaging equipment purpose-built for this product line. The next stop was Costco, with an order for a whopping 4 million pieces.

In just 3 weeks, The Fresh Factory:

  • Purchased and deployed new processing equipment
  • Installed and scaled up automated packaging lines
  • Filled the entire Costco order on time and in full

Food & Beverage Development with The Fresh Factory

Let’s craft something fresh together.

Whether you’re an emerging brand or a food and beverage disruptor ready to release your newest product, you need a partner that believes in your vision. The Fresh Factory launches dozens of innovative products every year — each with a focus on clean-label, better-for-you ingredients. Vertically integrated from farm to shelf, we use innovative processing techniques to manufacture real food, without the artificial colors or preservatives.

We understand what it takes to create products that meet today's health-conscious consumers' demands while maintaining exceptional taste and quality, both in small batches and at scale. Guided by our mission of honest food for all, we provide full-service solutions, including ingredient sourcing, product development, on-site production, and sustainable packaging in our SQF-certified facility.

Ready to blend your vision with our expertise?