As the beverage world intensifies its diversity and range to suit the increasingly demanding consumer with change and product innovation.
General Beverages provides the platform for start-up and aspiring brands to create and develop surprising concepts,
to realize and take their ideas into the wider world.
Grounded by our knowledge and experience in flavours, your direct input, such as the target market, process, brand and product application, complete the core of our starting development. By enveloping product application into the design process, this allows us to better understand the flavour interaction as it is applied.
To realize the stories of tomorrow, our team is dedicated to be the most innovative engineer and developer of beverage application. The technical expertise serves alongside the inspirational innovators to drive our passion to reset the “status-quo” and to develop exciting new ideas meet their fullest potential.
Each concept is unique, and the design process is created for the specific concept and taste. Our approach is simple, straightforward, tailored and long term.
Our assistance is centred with flavour development. Developing the best tasting beverage is a complex process that requires a highly skilled and motivated team. This allows you to focus on the branding and presentation – branding has to be done with heart and your target market has to connect with it.
Before starting to develop your recipe you have to know to whom you will be selling your product? Who is your target consumer? What is your target market? What's your brand personality? What's your positioning strategy? These are tough questions to answer if you are doing this for the first time.
What's your product?How does it differentiate from competitors?What's the competitive advantage? Do you have it?What value does it give?Is there a need for your product? Who? When and why?Do you have a merchandizing strategy? Do you have a market entrance strategy?What are your main sales channels? What's your sales strategy?
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Here we take the basic idea for your drink and develop it into a full, market-ready concept.
During this process, we:
Identify your key needs and requirements for the beverage;
Project figures for pricing targets, production quantities and terms
Develop a range of potential concepts for your drink, based on brainstorming sessions with our experts;
Work together with you to identify and develop the best concept for your drink
Flavour Development/ refinement
Sourcing
Once the concept has been confirmed, we get to work on developing the recipe and
producing a prototype of your drink concept.
During this process, we:
Perform a price analysis, source ingredients, identify cost reduction opportunities,
carry out product analysisDevelop an initial prototype, perform laboratory stability testing, reformulate as necessary, optimize formula and deliver samples for testing and review;
Produce a final, realistic product offer with end price of product ingredients and compound cost.
Preparation of labelling and nutritional information
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Syrup/ Cordial
Water
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Tea & Coffee
Energy
Relaxation
Tonic
Health & Beauty
Functional
Beer
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Cider
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