NextStep Studio - For F&B and Food Tech projects in China

New F&B trends focusing on customers

Mon, 21 Mar 2022 04:36:19 -0700

In this week's newsletter, I focus on consumer trends. After all, we build products and solutions for what people want and crave. I tweaked my approach a bit so you can quickly see why I think this trend or innovation is important for your business.

Too subtle? Too bold? Let me know in the comments! As always, I can be reached at this email for all suggestions, ideas, and tips on what you’d like to see.

— Greg

Hi, I’m Greg, founder of NextStep [F&B] Studio. We help F&B brands and companies in China grow by implementing new F&B trends & innovations.

The Asia FoodTech Confidential Newsletter is my way to share what’s happening in the Food and Beverage industry with F&B In this very special publication (outside the usual schedule, and in a different format), I wanted to touch a bit on what’s happening in Ukraine and see how this is impacting the whole food and beverage industry.

Of course, this post is not about politics, and it is probably not helping the ongoing conflicts, however, I was curious to see how troubled times - yes we all add quite a few for the past years - can push us to yet again, be resilient and learn from others, by applying a few lessons to our business.

Hi, I’m Greg, founder of NextStep [F&B] Studio, we help brands and companies to implement new F&B trends & innovations, coming from China and Asia, in their business to stay ahead and be ready for what’s to come.

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Latest F&B trends & innovations coming from China and Asia

Mon, 07 Mar 2022 00:42:42 -0800

Hi, I’m Greg, founder of NextStep [F&B] Studio, we help brands and companies who need to learn about the new F&B trends & innovations from China and Asia. and see how this can help them.

The FoodTech Confidential Newsletter is my way to share what’s shaking the Food and Beverage industry with F&B professionals, FMCG experts, Tech entrepreneurs, and FOODTECH CONFIDENTIAL

Hello, I’m Greg, founder of NextStep [F&B] Studio. FoodTech Confidential is a newsletter to share innovations, trends, and big news about the Food and Beverage industry with F&B professionals, FMCG experts, tech entrepreneurs, and investors with a focus on China, and Asia, this should help you on your business too!

Hello, I’m Greg, founder of NextStep [F&B] Studio.

FoodTech Confidential is a newsletter to share innovations, trends, and big news about the Food and Beverage industry with F&B professionals, FMCG experts, tech entrepreneurs, and investors.

Basically, this newsletter will be sent every other week for now, with different topics, news, and formats.

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The FOODTECH Confidential Newsletter

Mon, 17 Jan 2022 21:28:29 -0800

A newsletter to spark innovation to your business

After consistenly publishing news daily on our Linkedin pages for a few years, we thought that it would be great to actually offer a solution to facilitate the access to previous publications and quietly check the news from the confort of a mailbox.

The FOODTECH Confidential newsletter will be basically following the same editorial line by summarizing the exciting news about what's shaking the Food and Beverages industry in China and Asia, mostly (we will take other news when we consider their impact to the industry to be major).

So, here is what FOODTECH CONFIDENTIAL will be all about:

📬 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕?

- Curated news about innovating F&B products, trends, tech, investment...

- Weekly digest straight to your inbox

- News from China and Asia, mostly (and sometimes from the rest of the World but only if it has a major impact on the whole industry)

- Access to previous newsletters

📣 𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔?

2022 will be different !

Mon, 03 Jan 2022 19:35:20 -0800

2022 will be different!

NextStep wishes you all the best for all your entrepreneurial projects in this year 2022.

This year will be different.

and honestly,... this year can only be different!

So what to expect from us at NextStep ?

For non-F&B entrepreneurs: 2022 will take us beyond the Food & Beverages world thanks to brand new partnerships with great M&A firms, but under other brands.
For F&B Professionals: more daily focus news on our Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/company/nextstepstudio) and Newsletter.
For Entrepreneurs: more early-stage projects (-> apply here: https://nextstepstudio.co/apply)
For Angel Investors, CVC, VC and PEs: more investment opportunities (-> NextStep [F&B] Studio's Greg PRUDHOMMEAUX was brought on THE NEGOTIATION PODCAST and interviewed by Todd EMBLEY for WPIC Marketing + Technologies to discuss Food Tech in China, and the impact of the spiking health & wellness industry.
Interested in what's happening on the ground in APAC today? Tune in to The Negotiation podcast, an ongoing series of conversations between host Todd Embley and the most engaging, impactful and accomplished minds in the region.
With conversations that dive into consumer behaviour, geopolitics, environmental sustainability, economic policy, marketing, technology and much much more, The Negotiation is your window into the world's most dynamic region and the trends that make it so.
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Shared-Kitchen Concept in-the-making

Wed, 01 Sep 2021 22:18:54 -0700

Working with many early-stage entrepreneurs in the F&B areas, developing products, working on R&D for a future restaurant concepts, finding a place for tasting, media launch, etc... we realized that something is missing in Shanghai.

What is a shared-kitchen ?

We have been investing quite sometime in gathering one-to-one feedback from founders who could have a good use of a space with full kitchen, fridges, and proper license in order for them to start working, producing and selling their value proposition potentially both offline and online through the platforms without having to sign a 3 to 5 years lease, or get something right before jumping into launching a production for 1,000kg MOQ / SKU...

To be clear, this place will not be replacing a proper Central Kitchen who could make product who could be retailed in stores, or sold to other restaurants for them to use, transform and serve. However it should be good for you to push your MVP, try your concept, build your brand and community in order to increase the quantity before moving to a food factory but with a proven concept, products and sales.

Who is it for ?

Entrepreneur Good news! We have been updating our system for you to have a better access to our on-going (and disclosable) deals.

We are aiming at identifying more projects from entrepreneurs as well as more strategic partners (business, funding, experts) to support and help them grow in China and Asia. This is the reason we have developped several tools for you to reach out to us if you were an entrepreneur with a project or a potential investor.

ON-GOING DISCLOSABLE MANDATES

Healthy snacks and subscription vegies box - NEW ! - Deck available here

Craft Cocktails RTD - NEW ! - Deck available here

HR Recruitment Platform for Services Industry - New ! - Deck available here

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