Ready to Rev
Specialized Consulting for Natural Products
Rev Food & Bev offers a wide range of consulting services for natural consumer packaged goods brands and has worked with a wide variety of products in categories like beverage, snacks, candy, perishable, frozen foods, and health/beauty. Rev's goal is to help brands grow with a focus on two major aspects of success: sustainability and profitability. We do this by focusing on the right accounts for the right brands and keeping sales overhead light. Rev partners with our clients to at various stages of product and brand development whether their focus is on a successful launch, regionally expanding, or national and international growth. Rev creates effective strategies for sales growth through targeted sales strategy, matching the best accounts and territories for each brand, finding the strongest distribution or broker partnerships, regional expansions or expanding product lines. Contact us to learn more.
Meet Mareill
Founder and Head Consultant
Mareill Kiernan has a long, successful career within the Natural Products Industry helping brands from product development and pre-launch stages to expansion into chains across the country and into Canada.
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She has sold millions of dollars of products into a multitude of retail channels including Natural Chains, Independent, Grocery, Club, Drug, Food Service, Convenience and Lifestyle accounts like coffee shops or yoga studies. In more recent years she has focused on helping brands grow in Alt Channels to increase their exposure to new clients in their target territories. Her experience has included managing national and regional distributors, brokers, and sales team both outsourced and in house.
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After getting her undergraduate degree at the University of Virginia, a passion for a health focused life centered on nutritious foods lead her to study health and nutrition at the Institute of Integrative Nutrition, graduating as a certified health coach. She then studied culinary arts at the Natural Gourmet Institute, where she graduated as a Holistic Chef. Both programs helped her fine-tune her knowledge of how food and health go hand in hand. She is passionate about helping better-for-you brands reach more hands.
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Continuing her status a life long student and has numerous certificates in business development to including:
Harvard Business School Core Program,
Venture University program by UC Berkeley,
Venture Capital Certificate from Columbia University and
Natural Gourmet Institute Food Entrepreneurship Certificate
Rev Food & Bev exists to help brands say yes to the right accounts for them!
Strategic Sales & Pipeline Development
Find the best retailers & distributors for your brand's goals
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Identify & Target the right accounts and buyers for your products
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Get in front of the buyers that best fit your goals for growth
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Connect with the best distributors, brokers and merchandisers for your brand as needed
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Find strategic ways to open more doors and gain access to distribution if the major chains have turned you down
Branding & Brand Positioning Analysis
Make the right impression in a major way
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Stand out to buyers & consumers through your brand story, product attributes or packaging
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Increase consumer education on how you're improving the category
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Drive trail and find unique opportunities to catch new eyes
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Explore sustainable and mission focused options
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Learn to use other brands to build out your category
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Product Development & Line Expansion
Keep products current, on trend and tasting great
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Expand an existing line by bringing a new product idea to life
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Brainstorm pre-launch products from scratch
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Create recipes and partner with carefully vetted food scientists or product development agencies to get the best testing and COG-tight product to market quickly