Delivering uniqueness where others can’t...
With over 20 years in the industry, Alfresco is ideally situated to bring your ideas to life. Being able to produce bespoke beverages enables clients to offer something different to the consumers and demonstrate their uniqueness..
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CONCEPT
Customer Profiling
We will work with you to ensure your drink idea matches your target customer and your company values and vision.
Ingredient Trends
What are consumers currently buying, and what could be the next ‘big thing’ in the drinks market? How can we help you get ahead of the curve?
Menu Pairing
We know what ingredients work well with each other and what ingredients bring out the best in each other.
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RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
Recipe Development
We will work with you on your recipe throughout the whole process ensuring your recipe right for you and your customers.
Bespoke Packaging
The packaging of your drink is almost as important as the drink itself. We will work with you to ensure the packaging is right and aligns itself to your company brand values.
Cost/Margin Targeting
Looking at costs in the development phase is essential to ensure that your products will bring you revenue, we have experience in costing ingredients and associated costs to ensure you make a profit and your company benefits from growth.
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TRIAL
Small Batch Trials
Once we’ve worked with you on the R&D side, we will work with you to test the market, with the production of small batches, enabling you to test the water and put the theory into practice!
Testing & Analysis
Going to test market can be an anxious time, will the initial idea on concept come off? We will work through this with you, helping with the analysis enabling you to fully understand how the test market has taken to your product.
Regulatory Compliance
As with everything that is consumed, all products and ingredients must meet strict guidelines, but with Alfresco you’re in safe hands, if there are any problems meeting regulatory compliance we will work through this with you.
- LAUNCH
Activation & Sampling
Once through the regulatory compliance, we will help you with the soft launch which includes sampling at various venues and events.
Distribution & Export
Being able to get your products to the market smooth continuing the distribution lines is vital once your drink in is the market, we have experience with this and exporting into the international market.
Stock Management
You may need warehousing and further help with logistics, if you’ve never brought a drink to market, you probably won’t have the proper warehousing. Being in the industry for over 20 years we are able to help you find the right warehousing for you.
Alfresco has the experience, knowledge and passion to create a beverage that will bring out the uniqueness of your brand. The journey starts with helping clients through the maze of challenges to enable them to bring their ideas to fruition from concept to launch.
Being the experts, we can guide you from the very start ensuring your consumer profiling will match your ideas – after all there’s not much point in investing and creating a beverage that wont match your potential consumers!
We have 4 key areas to which are paramount to our processes to ensure your drink idea is the product that goes to market.