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Women’s Power Networking Breakfast: Taking Your Food Business to the Next Level

March 24, 2016 @ 8:30 am - 10:30 am

Free

Please note that this event has been relocated to room G110.

Join us for a Power Networking Breakfast with speaker Terry Frishman on how you can take your food business to the next level

Taking Your Food Business to the Next Level

Whether you’re an aspiring, start-up or more established food entrepreneur, what does it take to get to the next level? Please share in advance, the biggest challenge(s) you face in your food business, and we’ll try to address as many as possible in an educational and action-oriented PPT with a customized presentation by award-winning food business consultant and educator, Terry Frishman.
Depending upon your questions, we can address topics like: How do you make money in a food business? Develop your concept? Build a brand? Price? Test market? Optimize sampling and/or trade shows? Get press? Increase sales? Present to a gourmet store vs. a supermarket? Work with brokers or distributors, vs. only selling direct? Negotiate with your copacker? Raise capital? Leverage partnerships to more profitably grow your business? 

When you register, you’ll be asked to share your greatest challenge facing your food business. Be sure to include it, your email, and your website so we can best help on March 24th.

 

Speaker’s Bio

Multiple award-winning Terry Frishman (MBA, Columbia Business School), Founder, Culinest, has over 20 years of experience helping entrepreneurs strengthen their concepts and move their businesses forward with strategic and tactical assistance. She began her food career managing a $120 million brand and launching a profitable-within-1-year $20 million product line for Kraft General Foods (now Kraft Heinz), where she won six team awards and ran brainstorming sessions.

Through Culinest, a New York-based boutique consultancy, Terry takes food businesses to the next level with consulting and education. Aspiring entrepreneurs and established companies successfully launch and grow their food businesses with Culinest’s help — from brainstorming, strategy, branding and marketing to research, PR and sales. Clients have gone on to win Vendy and sofi awards, increase sales and profitably expand, and have included Sarabeth’s, Sylvia’s, Crepini, Chocolat Moderne, Nuchas Empanadas and The Lobster Place.

Terry has been a repeat guest speaker on Food Network, for the Specialty Food Association and the International Restaurant Show, and regularly teaches business classes, seminars and workshops. She is in the Society of Fellows for the Culinary Institute of America, a KIVA Trustee, and has served as President of the Roundtable for Women in Foodservice (NY) and VP for both the New York Women’s Culinary Alliance and the International Wine & Food Society (NY).

Details

Date:
March 24, 2016
Time:
8:30 am - 10:30 am
Cost:
Free
Event Category:
Website:
http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=xhstg4aab&oeidk=a07ec1j87iscf5ce9f6

Venue

Queens Borough Hall, Room G110
120-55 Queens Blvd
Kew Gardens, NY 11424 United States

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