1. Recipes & Formulas

Connex Consultants provides Recipe & Formulation analysis for your existing products. Let us standardize your current product recipes and formulas to industry standards with ingredient and sub-ingredient specifications as well as assembly, cooking or batching step by step instructions. Scaleable format ready to take to the production facility for benchtop to batch production.

2. Research & Development for New Products

Connex can take a concept or ideation product and create a Recipe & Formulation from scratch. We have skilled R&D food & supplemment scientists that specialize in creating new products to fit specific parameters. Incorporating specific functional goals, claims, and features in the product.

3. Recipe Cost Optimization

One of the continuous improvement tasks for any product is Cost Optimization of the Recipe or Formula. This service starts with a thorough investigation into the ingredients looking for cost optimization in sourcing of ingredients, identifying alternative ingredients with similar functions to existing ingredients and new methods of processing / production that result in cost savings. All while maintaining product functions and organoleptic characteristics.

4. Prototypes & Sales Samples

Connex can produce Prototype Samples of your product for use in investor presentation or as sales samples for Retail Buyer Meetings. Dees for this service vary depending on many factors. Initiate the process with the Prototype Sample Retainer Fee and then all samples will be produced based on written proposal/quotation process.

5. Product Commercialization

a. This important task in the Prototype to Production process is vital to determine the final Cost of Goods. Wholesale sales price can only be determined after the COGs is known. This step involves working intensively with the raw material suppliers, production plant, packaging manufacturers to get final pricing, then adding logistics cost analysis to determine final delivered pricing.