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Top Tools & Services for CPG Founders in 2023 - UPDATED

We've curated a list of the top services to help your food & beverage brand level up in 2023.

Top Tools & Services for CPG Founders in 2023 - UPDATED

If you’re looking at taking your CPG business to the next level in 2023, you need the right tools and services on your side. And Foodboro has you covered—here are our favorites for everything your business needs to see great growth next year. 

Brand Design & Photography

Branding, graphic design, and photography are all essential elements for CPG brands. Consumers often shop with their eyes first, so having a strong brand identity and attention-grabbing photos on your website can bring in more business. 

Haylee Jordan

Haylee designs strategic brand identity and packaging for emerging CPG brands. Her strong focus on positioning and visual brand storytelling makes her stand out among other CPG brand designers. She has a distinct style: it’s a bold, bright, and approachable design that works well within the CPG industry.

Rival Brands

Whether you’re launching a brand or reinventing an existing one, Rival will help develop your perfect message, ignite your culture, passion, and purpose, and design a brand that stands alone and drives your success. They believe in creating brands through rich stories that surprise and delight.

Praeclare Studio

Praeclare Studio is a design studio helping food & beverage brands reach their target audience through strategic & distinguished brand identity, packaging, & web design.

Katie Ring

Katie is a commercial food and product photographer who specializes in collaborating with CPG businesses to provide photo content that meets their branding and advertising goals. She also offers her in-house branding experience to provide consistently on-brand visuals, and coordinates with other creative partners as well. 

Fenomenal 

Fenomenal is a creative full-service marketing studio, and they specialize in branding, packaging design and storytelling for purposeful CPG businesses. They offer services like brand strategy and launch, packaging design, content marketing and production, ecommerce and email marketing, and social media management. 

Packaging

Packaging for your CPG brand needs to look great, but it also needs to function beautifully so it provides a great customer experience. 

ePac Flexible Packaging

ePac offers a huge range of packaging options for your products so you can choose the perfect look and feel for your brand. They also have fast shipping times and low minimums, and have sustainable options as well for eco-conscious brands. 

Carton

Custom packaging made simple! Stop worrying about supply chain, figuring out customizations, and searching for vendors. Get the quality you need at factory-direct pricing with Carton.

Website

Your website is the digital front door to your business, so it needs to be beautiful, feel welcoming, and deliver a great user experience. These tools and services can help you create the perfect website. 

Shopify

Shopify is an ecommerce giant for a reason—they offer an easy, affordable way for even very early-stage startups to build a great ecommerce website. If you’re selling products on your website, you should definitely consider using Shopify.  

Wren Digital

Wren Digital is a friendly, active, and agile Shopify design and development studio. They craft strategic, bespoke websites that help you grow your revenue to new heights. Their most recent project is with Foodboro member Daily Crunch... check it out!

Oddit

Your website needs to offer a great user experience to your visitors, and that’s where Oddit comes in. They offer UX teardowns and actionable advice to improve your CPG website and boost conversions. 

Upscribe

If your website offers subscription options for your products, Upscribe can help you grow and scale them effectively. They work with Shopify brands to create an even more powerful customer experience so you can wow your loyal subscribers and keep them from churning. 

Commerce

SimplyDepo

SimplyDepo is a cloud-based platform that simplifies wholesale business essentials for brands, wholesalers and distributors. Sell, ship, grow, start your next big thing with SimplyDepo!

Pear Commerce

Pear provides CPG brands with the infrastructure and tools to seamlessly enable retail ecommerce. They take care of the personalized purchase paths, inventory scanning, insight collecting, pixel firing, data capturing… so your team can focus on what they do best: creating an amazing brand with products people love.

Finances & Banking

Handling the backend finance and banking tasks isn’t glamorous, but it’s critical. Here are the tools that can help make it easier so you can focus on building your company. 

Kickfurther

Kickfurther is a powerful tool for new startups. They allow you to access financing so you can build your inventory without dealing with cash flow bottlenecks. And their payment terms are reasonable, even if you can’t access traditional loans or other sources of funding. 

Mercury

Mercury is a financial technology company that specializes in startups and provides everything they need to grow. From business banking accounts to employee credit cards and fast, fee-free ways to pay your vendors, you can get it all. And signing up only takes a few minutes.  

MyPocketCFO

MyPocketCFO is like having a virtual CFO—they offer finance management tools for ecommerce companies like real-time reporting, automated bookkeeping, and personalized financial advice. 

Marketing

Marketing is the final essential element to launching and sustaining a successful CPG business. Here are our favorite companies in the space to help you nail your marketing strategy and execution. 

Twirl

Twirl is a full-service creative strategy and content studio specializing in UGC video ads; powered by a network of over 500 vetted content creators and our tech-enabled service delivery.

Klaviyo

Klaviyo is one of the top ecommerce marketing automation platforms. They enable companies like yours to perfect your email and SMS automation strategy and drive more customer revenue through customer acquisition and retention. 

Sampoll

Offering your potential customers samples of your products is a great way to gain their trust and their business. But it’s also logistically challenging. Sampoll was created to help solve that problem—they also help you gain and analyze customer feedback from sampling.  

Made By DAS

Made by DAS are marketing engineers who build scalable growth frameworks for CPG companies. They offer paid search and social, email and SMS automation, and custom web experiences to deliver long-term growth for growing brands. 

Publicity for Good

Publicity for Good is a PR firm that specializes in helping wellness, beauty, and food brands grow. Their focus on conscious brands who value purpose as much as profitability means they can deliver great results for the right CPG brands. 

Hawke Media

Hawke Media helps CPG brands grow and navigate the complicated marketing landscape successfully. They offer comprehensive, flexible solutions so they’re a great fit for businesses of almost any size. 

Achieving your growth goals in 2023 is easier with the right partners, services, and tools—we hope this has been a helpful guide.

Want more food & beverage industry news delivered straight to your inbox? Subscribe to the Foodboro newsletter.

If you’re looking at taking your CPG business to the next level in 2023, you need the right tools and services on your side. And Foodboro has you covered—here are our favorites for everything your business needs to see great growth next year. 

Brand Design & Photography

Branding, graphic design, and photography are all essential elements for CPG brands. Consumers often shop with their eyes first, so having a strong brand identity and attention-grabbing photos on your website can bring in more business. 

Haylee Jordan

Haylee designs strategic brand identity and packaging for emerging CPG brands. Her strong focus on positioning and visual brand storytelling makes her stand out among other CPG brand designers. She has a distinct style: it’s a bold, bright, and approachable design that works well within the CPG industry.

Rival Brands

Whether you’re launching a brand or reinventing an existing one, Rival will help develop your perfect message, ignite your culture, passion, and purpose, and design a brand that stands alone and drives your success. They believe in creating brands through rich stories that surprise and delight.

Praeclare Studio

Praeclare Studio is a design studio helping food & beverage brands reach their target audience through strategic & distinguished brand identity, packaging, & web design.

Katie Ring

Katie is a commercial food and product photographer who specializes in collaborating with CPG businesses to provide photo content that meets their branding and advertising goals. She also offers her in-house branding experience to provide consistently on-brand visuals, and coordinates with other creative partners as well. 

Fenomenal 

Fenomenal is a creative full-service marketing studio, and they specialize in branding, packaging design and storytelling for purposeful CPG businesses. They offer services like brand strategy and launch, packaging design, content marketing and production, ecommerce and email marketing, and social media management. 

Packaging

Packaging for your CPG brand needs to look great, but it also needs to function beautifully so it provides a great customer experience. 

ePac Flexible Packaging

ePac offers a huge range of packaging options for your products so you can choose the perfect look and feel for your brand. They also have fast shipping times and low minimums, and have sustainable options as well for eco-conscious brands. 

Carton

Custom packaging made simple! Stop worrying about supply chain, figuring out customizations, and searching for vendors. Get the quality you need at factory-direct pricing with Carton.

Website

Your website is the digital front door to your business, so it needs to be beautiful, feel welcoming, and deliver a great user experience. These tools and services can help you create the perfect website. 

Shopify

Shopify is an ecommerce giant for a reason—they offer an easy, affordable way for even very early-stage startups to build a great ecommerce website. If you’re selling products on your website, you should definitely consider using Shopify.  

Wren Digital

Wren Digital is a friendly, active, and agile Shopify design and development studio. They craft strategic, bespoke websites that help you grow your revenue to new heights. Their most recent project is with Foodboro member Daily Crunch... check it out!

Oddit

Your website needs to offer a great user experience to your visitors, and that’s where Oddit comes in. They offer UX teardowns and actionable advice to improve your CPG website and boost conversions. 

Upscribe

If your website offers subscription options for your products, Upscribe can help you grow and scale them effectively. They work with Shopify brands to create an even more powerful customer experience so you can wow your loyal subscribers and keep them from churning. 

Commerce

SimplyDepo

SimplyDepo is a cloud-based platform that simplifies wholesale business essentials for brands, wholesalers and distributors. Sell, ship, grow, start your next big thing with SimplyDepo!

Pear Commerce

Pear provides CPG brands with the infrastructure and tools to seamlessly enable retail ecommerce. They take care of the personalized purchase paths, inventory scanning, insight collecting, pixel firing, data capturing… so your team can focus on what they do best: creating an amazing brand with products people love.

Finances & Banking

Handling the backend finance and banking tasks isn’t glamorous, but it’s critical. Here are the tools that can help make it easier so you can focus on building your company. 

Kickfurther

Kickfurther is a powerful tool for new startups. They allow you to access financing so you can build your inventory without dealing with cash flow bottlenecks. And their payment terms are reasonable, even if you can’t access traditional loans or other sources of funding. 

Mercury

Mercury is a financial technology company that specializes in startups and provides everything they need to grow. From business banking accounts to employee credit cards and fast, fee-free ways to pay your vendors, you can get it all. And signing up only takes a few minutes.  

MyPocketCFO

MyPocketCFO is like having a virtual CFO—they offer finance management tools for ecommerce companies like real-time reporting, automated bookkeeping, and personalized financial advice. 

Marketing

Marketing is the final essential element to launching and sustaining a successful CPG business. Here are our favorite companies in the space to help you nail your marketing strategy and execution. 

Twirl

Twirl is a full-service creative strategy and content studio specializing in UGC video ads; powered by a network of over 500 vetted content creators and our tech-enabled service delivery.

Klaviyo

Klaviyo is one of the top ecommerce marketing automation platforms. They enable companies like yours to perfect your email and SMS automation strategy and drive more customer revenue through customer acquisition and retention. 

Sampoll

Offering your potential customers samples of your products is a great way to gain their trust and their business. But it’s also logistically challenging. Sampoll was created to help solve that problem—they also help you gain and analyze customer feedback from sampling.  

Made By DAS

Made by DAS are marketing engineers who build scalable growth frameworks for CPG companies. They offer paid search and social, email and SMS automation, and custom web experiences to deliver long-term growth for growing brands. 

Publicity for Good

Publicity for Good is a PR firm that specializes in helping wellness, beauty, and food brands grow. Their focus on conscious brands who value purpose as much as profitability means they can deliver great results for the right CPG brands. 

Hawke Media

Hawke Media helps CPG brands grow and navigate the complicated marketing landscape successfully. They offer comprehensive, flexible solutions so they’re a great fit for businesses of almost any size. 

Achieving your growth goals in 2023 is easier with the right partners, services, and tools—we hope this has been a helpful guide.

Want more food & beverage industry news delivered straight to your inbox? Subscribe to the Foodboro newsletter.

If you’re looking at taking your CPG business to the next level in 2023, you need the right tools and services on your side. And Foodboro has you covered—here are our favorites for everything your business needs to see great growth next year. 

Brand Design & Photography

Branding, graphic design, and photography are all essential elements for CPG brands. Consumers often shop with their eyes first, so having a strong brand identity and attention-grabbing photos on your website can bring in more business. 

Haylee Jordan

Haylee designs strategic brand identity and packaging for emerging CPG brands. Her strong focus on positioning and visual brand storytelling makes her stand out among other CPG brand designers. She has a distinct style: it’s a bold, bright, and approachable design that works well within the CPG industry.

Rival Brands

Whether you’re launching a brand or reinventing an existing one, Rival will help develop your perfect message, ignite your culture, passion, and purpose, and design a brand that stands alone and drives your success. They believe in creating brands through rich stories that surprise and delight.

Praeclare Studio

Praeclare Studio is a design studio helping food & beverage brands reach their target audience through strategic & distinguished brand identity, packaging, & web design.

Katie Ring

Katie is a commercial food and product photographer who specializes in collaborating with CPG businesses to provide photo content that meets their branding and advertising goals. She also offers her in-house branding experience to provide consistently on-brand visuals, and coordinates with other creative partners as well. 

Fenomenal 

Fenomenal is a creative full-service marketing studio, and they specialize in branding, packaging design and storytelling for purposeful CPG businesses. They offer services like brand strategy and launch, packaging design, content marketing and production, ecommerce and email marketing, and social media management. 

Packaging

Packaging for your CPG brand needs to look great, but it also needs to function beautifully so it provides a great customer experience. 

ePac Flexible Packaging

ePac offers a huge range of packaging options for your products so you can choose the perfect look and feel for your brand. They also have fast shipping times and low minimums, and have sustainable options as well for eco-conscious brands. 

Carton

Custom packaging made simple! Stop worrying about supply chain, figuring out customizations, and searching for vendors. Get the quality you need at factory-direct pricing with Carton.

Website

Your website is the digital front door to your business, so it needs to be beautiful, feel welcoming, and deliver a great user experience. These tools and services can help you create the perfect website. 

Shopify

Shopify is an ecommerce giant for a reason—they offer an easy, affordable way for even very early-stage startups to build a great ecommerce website. If you’re selling products on your website, you should definitely consider using Shopify.  

Wren Digital

Wren Digital is a friendly, active, and agile Shopify design and development studio. They craft strategic, bespoke websites that help you grow your revenue to new heights. Their most recent project is with Foodboro member Daily Crunch... check it out!

Oddit

Your website needs to offer a great user experience to your visitors, and that’s where Oddit comes in. They offer UX teardowns and actionable advice to improve your CPG website and boost conversions. 

Upscribe

If your website offers subscription options for your products, Upscribe can help you grow and scale them effectively. They work with Shopify brands to create an even more powerful customer experience so you can wow your loyal subscribers and keep them from churning. 

Commerce

SimplyDepo

SimplyDepo is a cloud-based platform that simplifies wholesale business essentials for brands, wholesalers and distributors. Sell, ship, grow, start your next big thing with SimplyDepo!

Pear Commerce

Pear provides CPG brands with the infrastructure and tools to seamlessly enable retail ecommerce. They take care of the personalized purchase paths, inventory scanning, insight collecting, pixel firing, data capturing… so your team can focus on what they do best: creating an amazing brand with products people love.

Finances & Banking

Handling the backend finance and banking tasks isn’t glamorous, but it’s critical. Here are the tools that can help make it easier so you can focus on building your company. 

Kickfurther

Kickfurther is a powerful tool for new startups. They allow you to access financing so you can build your inventory without dealing with cash flow bottlenecks. And their payment terms are reasonable, even if you can’t access traditional loans or other sources of funding. 

Mercury

Mercury is a financial technology company that specializes in startups and provides everything they need to grow. From business banking accounts to employee credit cards and fast, fee-free ways to pay your vendors, you can get it all. And signing up only takes a few minutes.  

MyPocketCFO

MyPocketCFO is like having a virtual CFO—they offer finance management tools for ecommerce companies like real-time reporting, automated bookkeeping, and personalized financial advice. 

Marketing

Marketing is the final essential element to launching and sustaining a successful CPG business. Here are our favorite companies in the space to help you nail your marketing strategy and execution. 

Twirl

Twirl is a full-service creative strategy and content studio specializing in UGC video ads; powered by a network of over 500 vetted content creators and our tech-enabled service delivery.

Klaviyo

Klaviyo is one of the top ecommerce marketing automation platforms. They enable companies like yours to perfect your email and SMS automation strategy and drive more customer revenue through customer acquisition and retention. 

Sampoll

Offering your potential customers samples of your products is a great way to gain their trust and their business. But it’s also logistically challenging. Sampoll was created to help solve that problem—they also help you gain and analyze customer feedback from sampling.  

Made By DAS

Made by DAS are marketing engineers who build scalable growth frameworks for CPG companies. They offer paid search and social, email and SMS automation, and custom web experiences to deliver long-term growth for growing brands. 

Publicity for Good

Publicity for Good is a PR firm that specializes in helping wellness, beauty, and food brands grow. Their focus on conscious brands who value purpose as much as profitability means they can deliver great results for the right CPG brands. 

Hawke Media

Hawke Media helps CPG brands grow and navigate the complicated marketing landscape successfully. They offer comprehensive, flexible solutions so they’re a great fit for businesses of almost any size. 

Achieving your growth goals in 2023 is easier with the right partners, services, and tools—we hope this has been a helpful guide.

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