Consulting & Leadership

Helping your business grow through knowledge and experience.

Expert advice

OUR SERVICES

We provide services in three main areas: Technical Advice, Business Strategy, and Communication.

Our core areas of expertise include analytical, management and regulatory aspects of food allergens, gluten, GMO, animal and plant speciation, food irradiation, food authenticity, food fraud and food integrity. Moreover, we also cover other areas of food safety.

Our technical advice includes food analytical strategies for stakeholders in the food supply chain, including food manufacturers and retailers. We also provide services around laboratory set-up, method certifications and help through our long-standing experience and knowledge in the regulatory and scientific environment.

Our business strategy services include the development of strategic roadmaps, technical innovation, portfolio expansion for existing business and support for start-ups. It also includes technical evaluation for laboratories for merger and acquisition (M&A).

Our third area of expertise is communication. This includes providing training in different formats, compiling and developing training materials tailored to the target audience. We also provide support for developing technically sound and visually appealing presentation materials for meetings, including PowerPoint presentations and materials for marketing.

OUR CUSTOMERS

We serve companies in every step of the food chain, from ingredient producers, suppliers, food manufacturers, retailers, and caterers.

We support public and private laboratories offering analysis of food and feed.

We support manufacturers of diagnostic devices and equipment pursuing method and assay certification. We also offer services to companies looking to expand into the food business or looking for new applications in food analysis.

We provide advice to companies looking for insights and market trends in food safety and food analysis.

We participate in government initiatives involving SMEs.

We provide support to non-governmental organizations expand and complement their services.

Expert advice

TECHNICAL ADVICE

We support to laboratories, manufacturers and retailers in need of specific technical expertise in the areas of food allergens, gluten, GMO, animal and plant speciation, food irradiation, food fraud and vulnerability assessment. We also mediate between you and your supplier or customer on these topics.

We develop cost-efficient and optimized testing strategies for your products and help you better understand and interpret analytical reports. Our expertise covers the areas of food allergens, gluten, GMO, animal and plant speciation, food irradiation, food fraud and other food safety issues.

We can help you if your laboratory is in the process of applying for an extension of scope in accreditation and wants to ensure new methods have been properly implemented. Or your lab’s processes are less cost-efficient than expected and you need to understand reasons and possible remedies (lean-management).

We can help you build the right infrastructure if you are planning to expand your laboratory services to capture new markets.

We can help you get your method accredited for higher acceptance.

We provide up-to-date information on regulatory requirements, including labeling (e.g. food allergens, gluten-free, GMO, food irradiation).

We evaluate and provide recommendations about your product’s instruction manuals to ensure that your customers understand and obtain reliable results.

Business Strategy

BUSINESS STRATEGY

Provide scientific foresight for your mid- to long-term development strategies, including insights and evaluation of technology and market trends. We analyze them for their potential to benefit your business plan.

If you are a technology provider, we help you find your market niche. If you are a user, we analyze the potential benefits and risks of new and disruptive technologies to your business.

Through our knowledge and experience we help you to successfully enter a new market and avoid common expensive mistakes.

Evaluation of existing portfolio, technology, experience and future potential.

Communication

COMMUNICATION

We provide training in different formats (on-line and in-house) to help you improve processes and communication at different level of your organizations (personnel, managers, marketing & sales) and between you and your customers and/or suppliers. We have extensive experience in the organization of audience-tailored workshops and seminars on different aspects food safety topics.

Do not hesitate to contact us if we can mediate on technical food safety topics between you and your supplier or customer.

We write scientifically-sound press releases, reports and communicate confidently with media outlets. We also moderate events, including roundtables, and scientific sessions.

We produce artwork and brand collaterals to help you capture your audience with visually appealing materials that are worth a thousand words.

Would you like to discuss something else with us?

If you have not found what you are looking for based on what we offer and want to discuss your specific needs, do not hesitate to contact us.

OUR PROCESS

Tailored to your projects

Email

1. CONNECT

Contact us to schedule a call and briefly indicate the topic of discussion. We typically respond within 24 h.

Idea

2. IDEA GENERATION

After the initial talk, we will proceed with brainstorming, research and idea generation.

Realization

3. REALIZATION

We work on the project from a 360° perspective and a fit-for-purpose approach.

Optimization

4. TWEEK & UPDATE

We deliver the final product after discussing and reviewing the draft with you.