The-Co-Packing Network (Celebrating 100-Years in the Business) Helping Brands of All-Sizes
Honolulu/Las Vegas/Dallas/Bentonville/Providence/Raleigh
From America’s Farms Comes Inspiration For Future Products Created By Start-up and Emerging Brands
Complete Consumer Product Development Options With Our Partners (Internal and External)
Trial Runs, Sampling, Recipe Testing, Competitive Research, Shelf-Life Testing and More
Access to Our Complete Roster of Ingredient Manufacturers and Suppliers
www.IngredientManager.com
Ever-Expanding Roster of Contract Manufacturers, Packagers and Commercial Kitchens
Endless Sources For Packaging Design and Packaging Needs For All Product Types (Food and Non-Food Categories)
Leading to a-Number of 3PL (Warehousing Partners) in Strategic Locations in North America (East to Mid-West to West)
Suggestions On the Best Trade Shows To Exhibit At (Trade Associations, Retailers and Distributors)
Meetings With Retailer and Distributor Customers Throughout North America (All Retail Formats)
Leading to Products On-the-Shelf in Both Traditional and Non-Traditional Retail and Food Service Customers
The-Co-Packing Network (Celebrating 100-Years in the Business) Helping Brands of All-Sizes
Honolulu/Las Vegas/Dallas/Bentonville/Providence/Raleigh
From America’s Farms Comes Inspiration For Future Products Created By Start-up and Emerging Brands
Complete Consumer Product Development Options With Our Partners (Internal and External)
Trial Runs, Sampling, Recipe Testing, Competitive Research, Shelf-Life Testing and More
Access to Our Complete Roster of Ingredient Manufacturers and Suppliers
www.IngredientManager.com
Ever-Expanding Roster of Contract Manufacturers, Packagers and Commercial Kitchens
Endless Sources For Packaging Design and Packaging Needs For All Product Types (Food and Non-Food Categories)
Leading to a-Number of 3PL (Warehousing Partners) in Strategic Locations in North America (East to Mid-West to West)
Suggestions On the Best Trade Shows To Exhibit At (Trade Associations, Retailers and Distributors)
Meetings With Retailer and Distributor Customers Throughout North America (All Retail Formats)
Leading to Products On-the-Shelf in Both Traditional and Non-Traditional Retail and Food Service Customers
A Complete Program
Helping Brands Get Into Contract Manufacturing Relationships
…Founded by Conzumables (35-Years in the Consumer Product Business) With a Long History of Helping Start-up and Emerging Brands…
Brand History: Nestle, Coca Cola, Nature’s Bakery, Powerbar, Core Bar, Perfect Snacks, Super Coffee, Bon Appetit Bakery and More…
What The Co-Packing Network Does: With the Contract Manufacturing Alliance (Founded by the Contract Packaging Association and Partners), The Co-Packing Network Matches Start-up, Emerging and Established Brands With Contract Manufacturers. As An Incubation Model (the First Of Its Kind), The Co-Packing Network Also Offers Extended Services That Includes Product Creation (ex: Recipes) and Launch Subjects (ex: Food Brokers).
The Contract
Manufacturing
Alliance
The Contract
Packaging
Association
The
Lemonaders
Team
* Product Formulations. * Product Certifications * Field Sales and Marketing * Broker Sourcing and Management * Events and Sponsorships * Trade Associations and Trade Shows * Patents * Distributors * Demos * Retail and Food Service Channels * Merchandising * Fixtures * Point-of-Sale * Shopper Insights * Partnerships * Trademarks * Social Media * TV Studio Kitchens
Our Locations and the Regions We Work In
Our Locations
- Honolulu, HI
- Palm Springs, CA
- Las Vegas, NV
- Reno, NV
- Dallas, TX
- Bentonville, AR
- Lincoln, NE
- Orlando, FL
- Burlington, NC
- Troy, MI
- Providence, RI
Our Regions
- The Ohio Valley
- The South-East
- The North-East
- The Caribbean
- Canada
- Australia
- The South-West
- The North-West
- Hawaii/Guam
- The North-Central
- The South-Central
- Mexico








The Eight Types of Consumer Product Manufacturing
…The Co-Packing Network is the Co-Founder of the Contract Manufacturing Alliance Which Helps Brands of All-Sizes With Their Manufacturing Needs
All About the Manufacturing:
Cottage
Foods
Commercial
Kitchens
Food Innovation
Centers
Pilot
Plants
Contract
Manufacturers
Private
Labelers
CPG with Its
Own Facilities
Inventions / Prototyping

The Contract Manufacturing Alliance: The Contract Packaging Association and The Co-Packing Network together help find, recruit and land key contract manufacturer and pilot plant relationships for brands. Our contract manufacturers can be found in key parts of North America (USA, Canada).

Contract Manufacturers

Trade Associations

Industry Partners

Commercial Kitchens
The Contract Manufacturing Alliance
Creating products for the following:

Local and Regional Farmers Markets
Our incubation program connects consumer product entrepreneurs with kitchens, co-packers, and pilot plants nationwide, perfect for farmer’s market operators and vendors.

Local, Regional, National Retailers
Together with our own internal and external sales partners, we help place products (retailers, e-commerce) that consumer product entrepreneurs make with their manufacturing partners. Our own www.RetailFormats.com showcases all of the retail and food service formats that are ideal for placements.

Local, Regional, National Food Service
We help entrepreneurs place their products with manufacturers in retail and food service locations via our sales partners. Check out the ideal formats at www.RetailFormats.com.

Local, Regional, National E-Commerce (Internal / External)
We create e-commerce platforms and Amazon relationships for client brands using our internal and external sales partners, with customers like Thrive Market, Abe’s Market and Wayfair.

Local and Regional Farmers Markets
Our incubation program connects consumer product entrepreneurs with kitchens, co-packers, and pilot plants nationwide, perfect for farmer’s market operators and vendors.

Local, Regional, National Retailers
Together with our own internal and external sales partners, we help place products (retailers, e-commerce) that consumer product entrepreneurs make with their manufacturing partners. Our own www.RetailFormats.com showcases all of the retail and food service formats that are ideal for placements.

Local, Regional, National Food Service
We help entrepreneurs place their products with manufacturers in retail and food service locations via our sales partners. Check out the ideal formats at www.RetailFormats.com.

Local, Regional, National E-Commerce (Internal / External)
We create e-commerce platforms and Amazon relationships for client brands using our internal and external sales partners, with customers like Thrive Market, Abe’s Market and Wayfair.
Contract Packaging Association:
The Contract Packaging Association is the national, nonprofit trade organization for the Contract Packaging industry. Formed in 1992 for contract packaging firms and those businesses related to them, CPA promotes the growth and welfare of member firms through its industry exposure and programs.
CPA members are comprised of the nation’s leading contract packagers, which perform all packaging functions; from the simplest to the most complex and from the glamorous to the hazardous. Our members offer these packaging services to an extremely wide variety of consumer goods companies and these services range from manual and semi-automatic to full-speed, high performance packaging lines.
The CPA’s Request for Quote (RFQ) tool allows an automated submission to CPA Members to securely submit their project details and needs. Your Request for Quote will be dispatched to CPA Members whose capabilities match your project needs, and if they can assist you, will contact you directly about their services and capabilities.
Conzumables:
Conzumables was founded as a product development and retail format concept group (founders with history with international CPG groups such as Nestle, Coca Cola, Conagra and Pepsi). They are co-founders of known start-up brands (ex: Nature’s Bakery) and are equity partners / advisors to a long-list of successful brands.
Conzumables has helped quite a few brands over the years.
www.Conzumables.com
Some of the Brands They Have History With:
They are also founders of a-number of distribution models (ex:www.HotelRetailGroup.com), its own sales teams (ex: www.C-Stores.net) as well as a number of TV Shows
The CPA’s Request for Quote (RFQ) tool allows an automated submission to CPA Members to securely submit their project details and needs. Your Request for Quote will be dispatched to CPA Members whose capabilities match your project needs, and if they can assist you, will contact you directly about their services and capabilities.
We Are Also Project Managers

The Co-Packing Network has over 30-years of being involved in the food and beverage business. We ourselves our manufacturers of brands as well advise others (from start-ups to large companies). As part of our programming, we sometimes become the “Project Manager” for clients needing help in sourcing and managing contract manufacturers for their brands.
Our roster of contract manufacturers is over 40,000 so we have quite a few to choose from for our client’s needs.
Example Subjects:
* Innovating a Product
- What Is Your Idea For a Product?
- Have You Done Category Research?
- Do You Have Recipes/Formulations?
- What Part of the Country Are You In?
- Do You Have a Business Plan
* Making a Product
- Do You Need a Commercial Kitchen
- Do You Need a Pilot Plant
- Do You Need a Contract Manufacturer
- Do You Need a Private Labeler
- Ingredients, Packaging or Others?
* Distributing a Product
- 3PL and Warehousing Partners
- Cold Storage Partners
- How to Work With Distributors
- Direct-Store-Delivery vs. Warehouse
- E-Commerce / D2C Partners
* Funding a Product
- Self Funding
- Friends and Family
- Incubators & Accelerators
- Grants and Government Funds
- Angel Investors
- Purchase Order Financing
* Selling a Product
- Brokers bs Direct Inside Sales
- Customers (Category Management))
- Merchandising (Fixtures, POS, etc.)
- Planning, Presentations, Preparation
- Territory and Region Development
- Food Exports and Food Imports
* Marketing a Product
- Social Media & Influencers
- Consumer and Customer
- In-Store Marketing
- Trade Associations & Shows
- Customer / Consumer Research
- Media & TV Kitchen Studios

Commercial Kitchens and Co-Packing
For Over 15-Years, CPA Has Been helping Start-Up and Emerging Brands with Their RFQ Tool.
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Angel Investors and Funding Partners
The Conzumables Team Created The Co-Packing Network to Help Brands With Their Manufacturing.
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State Departments of Agriculture and Others
We Created State Proud to Be Our Solution Series For State Dept of Agriculture Programs.
Learn More…

Innovate, Create and Launch
For Over 15-Years, CPA Has Been helping Start-Up and Emerging Brands with Their RFQ Tool.
Learn More…

Media, PR and Trade Shows
The Conzumables Team Created The Co-Packing Network to Help Brands With Their Manufacturing.
Learn More…

Our Community (Incubators and More)
We Created State Proud to Be Our Solution Series For State Dept of Agriculture Programs.
Learn More…
Consumer Product Brands (Start-up to Emerging to Established): We work with start-up, emerging and established brands in categories such as:
- Gloves
- Cosmetics
- Cleaning Supplies
- Laundry Care
- Snacks
- Beverages
- Frozen Foods
- Deli and Dairy
- Meat and Seafood
- Produce
- Bakery/Bread
- Pet Products
- Stationary
- Educational Materials
- Lighting
- In-Store Deli
- Family Planning
- Apparel
- Health and Beautycare
- Audio-Electronic
- General Merchandise
- Sports Nutrition
- Paper Products
- Liquor Products
- Sporting Goods
- Party Supplies
- Video Gaming
- Front-End Products
- Tobacco Supplies
- Writing Instruments
- Water Softeners
- Confections
- Perfumes
- Pool Supplies
- Personal Care
- Charcoal and BBQ
- Condiments
- Sauces
- Pickles/Olives
- Picnic and Trash
- Side Dishes
- Supplements/Vitamins
- Kitchen Needs
- Peanut Butter/Jams
- Coffee/Cocoa/Tea
- Farm Supply
- Hardware/Electrical
- Auto Care/Parts
- First-Aid
- Pest Control
- Office Supplies
- Craft and Hobby
- OTC/Pharma/CBD
- Ethnic Foods
- Dietary Foods
- Baby and Kids Products
- Breakfast/Cereals
- Canned Goods
- Floral Products
- Grains and Pasta
- Batteries
- Baking Products
- Cooking Oils
- Spices/Seasonings
Launching a Product into the Marketplace?

We have history with many well-known brands as well work with new start-up and emerging brands (USA, Canada and beyond). We have over 35-years history working with some of the largest companies in the world as well have a long list of successful start-up manufacturing needs and launches with brands such as Nature’s Bakery, Perfect Snacks and Super Coffee.

Working all regions from our US based locations (Honolulu, HI; Palm Springs, CA; Las Vegas, NV; Dallas, TX; Bentonville, AR; Raleigh, NC; Troy, MI and Providence, RI..
The Lemonaders Program: How It Works (www.Lemonaders.com):
The Lemonaders Group created a monthly program for start-up and emerging brands needing guidance on anything to do with the business. We personally mentor brands as well do get personally involved with core needs such as finding a commercial kitchen or contract manufacturer, setting up sales broker partners, creating territories, working with retailers and setting up 3PL partnerships amongst other subjects. We also avail our complete teams as needs as well.
The Lemonaders Group and its partners have mentoring programs available for start-up and emerging brand groups needing help with their growth needs. Subjects such as Sales Planning, Product Development, Ethnic Marketing, Business Modeling, Strategic Marketing, Business Plan Writing, Marketing Plan and Proposal Writing, Corporate and Product Branding, Marketing Research, Advertising and Media Planning, Sales Promotion and Special Event Development, Supplier Sourcing and Liaison, New Business Development, Direct Product Sales, Territory Development, Trade Show Marketing, Forecasting, Affiliate Marketing, Racks/POS/Fixtures, Web Development, TV Production, Retail Store Development, Floor Plans, Social Media, Schematics, Category Management and more.

Our family has been involved within the consumer product industry (US based manufacturing, retailing, distribution) since the early 1920’s. From the first generation to the latest, our best practices have been handed down over time leading to a long legacy of successes in the business (manufacturing, retailing, distribution and more).
1920’s – 1940’s
1950’s – 1960’s
1970’s – 1980’s
1990’s – 2000’s
2010’s – Today
Some of Our Successes, Shark Tank and More:





The Conzumables Team has been helping start-up and emerging brands since 2008. We have a long list of successes including being involved with over 40 brands seen on Shark Tank.
- been helping start-up and emerging brands since 2008. The team comes from the largest food companies on the planet (Nestle, Coca Cola, Pepsi, Kellogg’s and Conagra).
- We have offices in Las Vegas, NV; Honolulu, HI; Dallas, TX and Raleigh, NC.
- We have internal and external sales offices and partners.
- We have our own TV shows as well
Our Own Media:
https://youtu.be/tL5SDPDpMuUhttps://youtu.be/8GSWoyt0VDEhttps://youtu.be/qyGhGslaPIohttps://youtu.be/UvZBJDcoT_Qhttps://youtu.be/1kYa14BbtKI

Contract Packaging (CP) is the official magazine for the Contract Packaging Association, published three times each year by PMMI Media Group (owners of Packaging World magazine). Dedicated exclusively to contract packaging issues and news, each issue is overseen by Editor-in-Chief, Anne Marie Mohan.
20,000 qualified packaging professionals receive each edition of CP. These professionals are individuals who have indicated that they have purchase involvement in contract packaging and related services and products. Magazine recipients are also contract packagers, who are CPA members.
www.ContractPackaging.org