Food and Beverage Marketing Agency

Brands built for the shelf, for the shelf,

Great food and beverage marketing doesn’t start in a boardroom. It starts with understanding how your buyer shops, what earns a second glance at shelf, why one food brand gets reordered and another gets delisted, and how category dynamics shift before the data reports catch up.

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🥩Meat and Poultry
🧁Confectionery
🥛Dairy
🥤Beverages
🍞Bakery
🥡FMCG
🐟Seafood
🍪Snacks
☕Coffee
🍅Sauces and Dressings
❄️Frozen Foods
🫒Edible Oils
🥬Fresh Produce
🍗Poultry

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Superior Farms
Lamb Producer
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AgriBeef
Beef Processor

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Snake River Farms
Snake River Farms

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Arabian Farms
Poultry & Dairy

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Green Giant Fresh
Fresh Produce

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Pacific Harvest
Seafood Distributor

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Valley Dairy Co.
Artisan Dairy

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FreshRoute Foods
Regional Distributor

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Superior Farms Lamb Producer
🥩 AgriBeef Beef Processor

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Snake River Farms Snake River Farms

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Arabian Farms Poultry & Dairy

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Green Giant Fresh Fresh Produce

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Pacific Harvest Seafood Distributor

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Valley Dairy Co. Artisan Dairy

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FreshRoute Foods Regional Distributor Why Sector Expertise Matters

Food marketing is not a creative brief away from a retail win.

We’ve sat in the buyer meeting. We’ve watched a launch fail because the promotional calendar conflicted with a competitor’s seasonal push that nobody flagged. We’ve seen a brand lose two percentage points of market share because the packaging relaunch didn’t account for how that SKU sat on the ambient fixture vs. the chilled one.
The food and beverage industry has its own physics. Distribution windows, retailer margins, category review cycles, promotional funding requirements, slotting dynamics, price point architecture — these aren’t details. They are the difference between a food brand that scales and one that runs out of runway on year two.
Perishly is a food and beverage marketing agency that spent two decades inside it before building a practice around it. We work with brands across retail, food service, direct to consumer, export, and eCommerce channels — with a clear, commercial understanding of what grows revenue in each one.

16+

F&B categories from confectionery to seafood

100%

Food and beverage. Nothing else. Ever.

DTC to trade

All channels, not just digital

Build to exit

We stay for the whole brand lifecycle Retail and Grocery Retail Category positioning, trade marketing, promotional planning, packaging, buyer-facing pitch decks and shopper media. We understand what gets a product listed — and what keeps it there after the intro deal expires. Direct to Consumer DTC Subscription commerce, DTC brand building, food eCommerce, email retention, paid acquisition, and conversion-focused product pages. Profitability at the unit level, not just top-line growth. Food Service Food Service Food service sales support, operator marketing, distributor enablement, and account-specific programming for QSR, casual dining, institutional, and contract catering channels. FMCG and CPG CPG Brand architecture, portfolio strategy, pack design, above-the-line campaigns, and media planning across TV, digital, OOH, and trade press for consumer goods brands with retail distribution ambitions. Export and International Markets Export Gulf States, North America, and Europe export readiness: labeling compliance, localisation, channel strategy, trade show support, and in-market activation for food brands expanding beyond their home market. Industries We Serve

Every category has its own commercial logic.

We don’t apply the same brief template to a beverage brand that we’d give a bakery. The buying behavior, the channel mix, the promotional mechanics, the compliance requirements, and the competitive dynamics are completely different. This is what 20 years in food looks like.

Beverages

Carbonated, functional, RTD, energy, water, spirits, craft beer, and soft drinks. From challenger brand positioning to mass-market activation and ritual building at shelf.

Confectionery

Chocolate, sugar confectionery, gum, and premium gifting. Seasonal campaign management, gifting channel development, and the very specific consumer purchase triggers in impulse vs. planned confectionery.

FMCG and Processed Food

Ready meals, canned goods, ambient staples, condiments, and multi-SKU food brands. Trade marketing, distribution growth strategies, and building brand salience in high-volume, low-attention categories.

Meat and Livestock

Beef, pork, lamb, and specialty cuts across processor, packer, DTC ranch, and halal/kosher operations. The only food category where provenance, traceability, and certification affect the price point directly.

Seafood

Wild catch, farmed, fresh, and frozen seafood. Cold chain marketing, sustainability storytelling, certification positioning (MSC, ASC), and food service sell-in for a category where freshness is the brand promise.

Bakery

Artisan, industrial, and specialty bakery brands. Shelf life constraints shape the entire marketing model — from DTC subscription timing to food service distribution windows and seasonal SKU management.

Dairy

Milk, cheese, yoghurt, butter, and cultured dairy. A category in structural transition — premium provenance, free from, and functional dairy all need distinct marketing strategies from commodity dairy communication.

Fresh Produce

CSA, farm box, fresh vegetable, and produce brand marketing. Demand forecasting matters here in a way it doesn’t in any other food category — marketing that triggers demand before harvest is the only model that protects margin.

Poultry

Chicken, turkey, duck, and specialty poultry. DTC whole-bird subscription, food service account development, and welfare certification marketing in a category where consumer trust is both the opportunity and the risk.

Snacks

Savoury, sweet, protein, and better-for-you snack brands. The most competitive shelf in grocery. Portfolio strategy, occasion-based targeting, and influencer-led sampling programs for brands competing for the most distracted buyer in food retail.

Coffee and Hot Drinks

Roasters, blenders, RTD coffee, and specialty drink brands. Category premiumisation is still the story — from origin storytelling and brew method content to subscription DTC and food service account development.

Edible and Fat Oils

Olive, sunflower, coconut, blended, and specialty oils. A category with massive quality differentiation and almost no marketing investment at brand level. The brand that tells the story first wins the premium tier.

Frozen Foods

Ready meals, IQF, premium frozen, and functional frozen food brands. Repositioning a category still fighting the stigma of convenience while premium frozen is the fastest-growing segment in food retail. That tension is where the brand opportunity lives.

Sauces and Dressings

Table sauces, cooking sauces, dressings, marinades, and condiments. High repeat purchase, low switching cost, and enormous SKU proliferation. Winning this category requires owning a specific flavour or occasion before a competitor does. Marketing Services

The full commercial toolkit for food and beverage brands.

We don’t offer a fixed retainer and let you use whatever services fit the budget. We start from where your food brand actually is — and build the service mix that closes the gap between where you are and where the category is going. 01 Advertising and Paid Media

From category launch campaigns to product-level conversion advertising. We plan, buy, and optimise across TV, digital, programmatic, and social for food and beverage brands at retail, DTC, and food service. Our media teams understand food seasonality, promotional calendars, and the difference between brand-building spend and demand-generation spend. Most food brands need both at the same time, in the right ratio.

TV and Video Paid Social Google Shopping Programmatic Food Service Media

4.8x average ROAS on food-specific paid campaigns 02 Brand Strategy and Development Brand positioning in a food category is not about being different for its own sake. It’s about owning a consumer job-to-be-done that a competitor doesn’t currently own, at a price architecture that makes commercial sense. We build food brand strategy from category data, shopper insight, and competitive gap analysis — and we write briefs that creative teams can actually execute, not positioning statements that sound good in a deck and disappear in execution. Category Positioning Brand Architecture Naming Identity Design Packaging Strategy

Used to launch brands into Whole Foods, Sprouts, and Costco 03 Food Packaging Design Packaging is the last five seconds of marketing before a purchase decision. In a food aisle with 300 competing products within arm’s reach, those five seconds are the whole campaign. We design packaging that communicates appetite appeal, differentiates from the category visual code, survives the print process, and ships without looking like it’s been to war. The brief, the design, the die-lines, and the retail readiness check — all in house. Retail Packaging Label Design Print Production Shelf Standout Testing Export Labelling

Compliance-checked across FDA, EFSA, and Gulf market standards 04 SEO and Content Marketing Food is one of the highest-volume search categories on the internet and one of the lowest-invested in terms of brand-level SEO. Most food companies rank for their brand name and nothing else. We build content strategies around the actual search behavior of food buyers — recipe queries, ingredient questions, certification searches, comparison terms, and local food sourcing intent — and we produce the content that converts those searches into first orders and repeat purchases. Food Category SEO Recipe Content Certification Content Technical SEO Local Food SEO

34% average uplift in organic food brand discovery 05 Social Media and Influencer Marketing Food content has higher organic reach than almost any other category on Instagram, TikTok, and Pinterest. The problem is most food brands produce content for their brand, not for the platform. Food social that performs is built around the content format that the platform rewards, the creator voice that the audience trusts, and the cultural moment that makes a food product feel timely rather than promotional. We brief, manage, and measure food-native creators with audiences that buy, not just scroll. Creator Partnerships Food Content Production TikTok Food Pinterest Commerce UGC Strategy

2.8x higher engagement vs. standard brand content 06 Lead Generation and Email Marketing For DTC food brands, the subscriber list is the asset. Not the social following. Not the press coverage. The subscriber list. We build lead generation systems — sampling programs, recipe subscription funnels, free guide offers, loyalty sign-ups — that bring the right food buyer into your owned channel. Then we build the email automation that converts them to purchasers and the win-back sequences that stop subscription churn before it becomes a margin problem. DTC Funnel Build Subscription Onboarding Churn Prevention Win-Back Automation Sampling Programs

89% subscription retention with our retention email stack 07 Public Relations Food PR that gets coverage in the publications your buyers, retailers, and distributors actually read. Not generic press releases to a 5,000-contact list. Placed stories in food trade press, regional food media, national lifestyle publications, and ingredient-specific trade channels — calibrated to whether you’re trying to get listed, get sampled, get investment-ready, or get reordered. The relationship with a Whole Foods buyer starts with the trade press. We know where to start it. Food Trade Press National Food Media Award Entries Crisis Communications Export Market PR

Placed in Food Business News, Nation’s Restaurant News, and more 08 Market Research and Category Insights The food brands that win category reviews are the ones that walk in with the buyer’s own data reflected back at them — and a story about what’s happening in the category that the buyer hasn’t written yet. We run primary consumer research, synthesize secondary data sources, and produce category insight reports and buyer presentations that are commercially sharp rather than academically thorough. We work with what moves sales, not what looks impressive in a PDF. Shopper Research Category Analysis Trend Forecasting Buyer Presentations Competitive Mapping

Research-backed retailer pitch decks and category reviews 09 Food Photography and Creative Production Food photography that makes people reach for a product rather than scroll past it. We direct shoots for retail packaging, eCommerce product pages, social content, OOH campaigns, and food service menus. Our creative teams work in food-specific production environments — not adapted photo studios with food as a prop. The difference shows on shelf and converts better on product pages. Still life, lifestyle, and ingredient hero — all formats, all channels. Product Photography Lifestyle Content Video Production Recipe Photography Campaign Assets

Studio and on-location production for food and beverage brands Guiding Principles

What two decades in food and beverage teaches you.

These aren’t brand values we wrote for a pitch. They are operating principles that come from watching food brands succeed, fail, get listed, get delisted, gain margin, lose margin, scale, and get acquired. We’ve been in enough review meetings to know which of these actually matter and which ones were always decoration.”The best food marketing brief I ever received was three lines long. The worst was forty pages. The three-line brief produced a campaign that doubled distribution. The forty-page brief produced a campaign nobody remembers.” 20 years in food and beverage 01 Commercial clarity before creative. We don’t brief creative until we know what commercial problem we’re solving. A beautiful food brand campaign that runs in the wrong channel at the wrong price point at the wrong time in the promotional calendar is expensive decoration. Strategy that’s grounded in category data and buyer economics comes first. Always. 02 Shelf wins are built before launch, not after. Most food brands arrive at their first buyer meeting with a great product and a weak commercial case. Category data, competitive gap analysis, promotional investment plans, and a realistic distribution ladder have to be in the room before the buyer asks for them. We prepare food brands for the meetings that determine whether a launch succeeds or stalls at two doors. 03 The consumer and the trade buyer are not the same brief. Winning the end consumer through advertising doesn’t automatically move product through the trade channel. And landing a grocery listing doesn’t automatically mean consumers find the product on shelf. Both marketing problems exist at the same time, require different budgets, and respond to different messages. Treating them as one campaign is where food brand money disappears. 04 Category context is the only context that matters. Your premium olive oil doesn’t compete with all of grocery. It competes with five other bottles on a 90cm fixture for a buyer who spends 3.2 seconds scanning the shelf. Your food brand’s job in that moment is not to be broadly attractive. It’s to be immediately relevant to the specific person who is already reaching into your category. That’s a very different creative brief from “build brand awareness.” Our Process

We don’t pitch until we understand what you’re actually selling against.

Every food and beverage brand arrives with a different problem. Some are pre-launch and need a commercial foundation. Some are in distribution and can’t unlock velocity. Some are profitable in DTC and can’t crack retail. The brief changes based on where the category is and where you sit in it. This is how we figure that out.

01 Category and Brand Audit

We map your current position: distribution, pricing, velocity, digital presence, and competitive context. Where are you winning on shelf and losing attention? Where is the category going that you’re not currently positioned for? What do buyers see when they look at your category alongside your competitors? This is not a SWOT. It is a commercial snapshot of your brand’s actual position in the market today.

02 Consumer and Shopper Insight

We identify who is actually buying your category, what triggers the purchase, what creates repeat, and what breaks the habit. Not from a demographic brief, but from actual shopper behavior data and, where required, primary qualitative research with real food consumers. The insight that matters is the one that changes what you make, how you price it, or where you place it — not the one that confirms what you already believed.

03 Commercial Opportunity Mapping

We rank every growth lever — new channels, new SKUs, new geographies, new audiences, digital vs. trade investment — by the size of the prize and the cost of capture. Not every opportunity is worth pursuing at the same time. The food brands that spread budget across too many bets rarely win any of them. We identify the one or two moves that will create compounding returns and build the business case for each one.

04 Marketing Mix and Channel Strategy

We recommend the specific combination of brand building, demand generation, trade marketing, and content investment that your food brand needs — at the budget level you have, not an ideal scenario you don’t. Then we sequence it. Year one priorities differ from year three priorities. Food brands that spend on the wrong channel at the wrong stage of growth create awareness they can’t convert and distribution they can’t support.

05 Written Plan with Measurable Outcomes

Every engagement starts with a written plan: objectives, activities, timeline, budget allocation, and the specific metrics we’ll use to measure success. Not OKRs that could mean anything. Specific numbers — distribution doors, velocity per door, subscriber acquisition cost, email retention rate, paid ROAS — that give both sides a clear definition of what success looks like before the work begins.

14 days

From brief to first live marketing activity

16+

Food and beverage categories served

3.4x

Average first year DTC revenue growth

Zero

Commission or revenue share on food brand sales Why Perishly

Three things that separate a food and beverage specialist from an agency that has food clients.

Having worked with food brands for two decades means we’ve seen both sides of this distinction — from inside the brand and from the agency seat. The difference matters most when the category is moving fast and the brief doesn’t have time to explain the background. 01 We know what happens after the campaign goes live. Most agencies brief, create, and measure impressions. We build food and beverage marketing that connects to what happens at the point of sale, at the category review, at the buyer meeting, and at the subscription renewal. We’ve been in the rooms where the marketing spend gets justified or cut. We build campaigns that survive the commercial pressure test, not just the creative one. That means the work we produce is built around outcomes your CFO and your category manager both care about. 02 We understand the food supply chain, not just the marketing chain.

A beverage brand entering a new retail account has MOQ conversations, promotional funding negotiations, pack format considerations, and shelf space allocations to manage before the first marketing material is needed. A DTC food subscription brand has perishability windows, cold-chain logistics, and fulfilment lead times that directly affect what can be promised in an ad. We factor these into the marketing brief. An agency that doesn’t know them produces marketing that the operations team has to walk back.

03 We don’t pitch what we can’t deliver.

We work with a deliberate number of clients at a time — not because we can’t grow, but because implementation quality is the product. When you work with Perishly, you get a team with capacity for your business. Not an account manager running 40 brands who doesn’t remember what you discussed last week. If we’re at capacity, we tell you. If we’re not the right fit for where your operation is right now, we tell you that too.

Build

Brand strategy, identity, packaging, eCommerce, food photography, and category-entry positioning. Everything a food brand needs to exist credibly in the market before a penny is spent on media.

Category-based brand positioning
Packaging designed for shelf and ship
eCommerce and DTC store build
Food photography and content creation
Retail pitch deck and buyer materials

Grow

Paid media, SEO, influencer, PR, email, and trade marketing. Building the demand that justifies new distribution and the content engine that keeps the consumer and trade relationship active.

Paid social and Google Shopping
Food category SEO and content
Influencer and creator partnerships
Trade and food service PR
Subscription retention email stack

Scale

ERP integration, AI order intake, multi-channel data, export market readiness, and the operational marketing infrastructure that supports a food brand growing across multiple channels and geographies.

ERP and accounting system integration

Wholesale B2B portal and order automation
Export market labelling and compliance
Cross-channel data and reporting
Category management and buyer support

customer Stories

Work that moved product, not just metrics.

Every number is from a live food or beverage brand. Not a projection, not a trailing average, not a range designed to look impressive. The number the business recorded.

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From Food and Beverage Brand Leaders

Named. Real. With the numbers that back them.

Everyone who gave a quote below also gave us permission to show the commercial outcome alongside it. We think that matters.

Meat and Poultry
★★★★★

“Most agencies want to rebrand you before they understand you. Perishly spent the first month figuring out why our wholesale buyers reordered at the rate they did — and then built everything else around that insight. The work was better for it.”

DV
Dwayne Devellen
Hat Creek Butchery, Liberal KS
3.4x DTC revenue in year one
Seafood
★★★★★

“Our business runs on day-boat product. Variable weights, unpredictable availability, buyers who need to know at 5 AM what came in overnight. Perishly built the ordering system and the marketing around that constraint instead of asking us to work around their platform.”

FS
Operations Director
Fathom Seafood, USA
Cold-chain checkout enforced at order
Premium Beef
★★★★★

“The product pages Perishly built for our Wagyu didn’t just look right — they converted. The premium held online the way it never does at a farmers market. That gap between quality and perceived value closed the moment the story was told in the right place.”

JH
Jen Hoseth
Lone Crow Ranch, Eltopia WA
3.8x subscription revenue, year one
Specialty Foods
★★★★★

“We’d tried three agencies before Perishly. The first two didn’t understand that our buyer is a food hall buyer, not a consumer. The third understood it but didn’t have the creative to do anything with the insight. Perishly understood it and could execute it.”

LK
Laura Klingeman Smith
Pure Country Harvest, Moses Lake WA
2.9x bundle box revenue
Halal and Certified
★★★★★

“Our certifications were always in order. The problem was buyers had to ask us for them, which immediately made us feel like a smaller operation than we are. The portal fixed that the first week it was live.”

OL
Operations Director
Oasis Livestock, Abu Dhabi UAE
64% digital orders in 90 days
Wholesale and Processing
★★★★★

“The best description of what Perishly built for us is this: my phone stopped ringing with the same call it had been taking for twelve years. That’s not a small thing. That’s the entire admin function of a food wholesale operation, automated.”

JL
Jeremy Losier
The Packing House Inc., Hamilton ON
78% weekly revenue now digital

Meat and Poultry
★★★★★

DV
Dwayne Devellen
Hat Creek Butchery, Liberal KS
3.4x DTC revenue in year one
Seafood
★★★★★

FS
Operations Director
Fathom Seafood, USA
Cold-chain checkout enforced at order
Premium Beef
★★★★★

JH
Jen Hoseth
Lone Crow Ranch, Eltopia WA
3.8x subscription revenue, year one
Artisan Butchery★★★★★

“What changed wasn’t the product. The product was always excellent. What changed was that buyers could find us, understand what we do, place an order, and receive a confirmation — without anyone from our team being involved. That’s what good food marketing infrastructure looks like.”

CACharlotte AntczakAlmena Meat Company, WI61% digital in first season
Heritage Ranch★★★★★

“We’ve run this farm for fifty years. The last thing we expected was that an eCommerce build would change how we plan our processing schedule. It changed everything downstream from the first order confirmation.”

PCOperationsPure Country Harvest, WAHarvest now demand-led not forecast-led
Heritage Beef★★★★★

“Flying K runs heritage Angus with a genuine provenance story. At the farmers market, price resistance is real. Online, with the story told correctly, buyers pay the premium without negotiating. The Perishly team understood that before we briefed them on it.”

FKOwnerFlying K Ranch, USA2.6x price premium held online
Food Business Acquisition★★★★★

“We acquired a 35-year food business with a loyal but aging customer base. We needed to preserve the brand equity and modernise the channel simultaneously. Perishly had us live in 7 days and 61% digital by end of season one.”

CACharlotte AntczakAlmena Meat Company, WIDay 7 first digital order, new ownership
Multi-Location Retail★★★★★

“Royal Family Farms runs DTC and wholesale. Completely different buyers, different price lists, different order cadences. Perishly built dual-channel infrastructure with total pricing isolation. Both channels grew in year one.”

RFCommercial DirectorRoyal Family Farms, USABoth channels grew simultaneously
Poultry Processing★★★★★

“We process poultry for 80-plus restaurant accounts across the region. Every account has different specs, price lists, and delivery windows. Perishly gave each buyer their own portal login with their exact configuration. The calls confirming every order stopped within two weeks.”

MNOperations ManagerMennella’s Poultry, NJPer-account pricing, fully automated

Artisan Butchery★★★★★

CACharlotte AntczakAlmena Meat Company, WI61% digital in first season
Heritage Ranch★★★★★

PCOperationsPure Country Harvest, WAHarvest now demand-led not forecast-led
Heritage Beef★★★★★

FKOwnerFlying K Ranch, USA2.6x price premium held online
Questions

What food brand leaders ask before they start.

The questions we hear most before the first conversation with a food or beverage brand. If something isn’t covered here, the audit call is the right place to get into it — it’s free, 60 minutes, and starts with your brief, not ours.
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What makes Perishly different from a general creative or marketing agency?

Do you work with early-stage food startups or only established brands?

Both. We work with food brands from pre-launch through to exit-ready. The engagement looks different at each stage. Pre-launch brands need brand strategy, packaging, and DTC infrastructure before they need paid media. Established brands with distribution need velocity-driving demand generation and trade support. Scaling brands need the operational marketing infrastructure — ERP integration, B2B portals, automation — that removes the admin overhead that slows growth. We scope the engagement to match where the brand actually is, not where a pitch deck says it should be.

Do you only handle digital? What about retail trade marketing and food service?

We work across all channels — retail, DTC, food service, export, and eCommerce. Trade marketing and buyer support materials are part of our Build phase. Food service distributor enablement and operator programming sit in our Grow phase. The reason we cover all channels is that consumer demand and trade demand are connected — building one while ignoring the other is where most food brand marketing budgets go to underperform.

We’re a beverage brand. Do you understand the specific dynamics of beverages versus food?

How do you handle halal, kosher, organic, and other certification-based marketing?

Certification-based positioning is one of the most commercially underexploited assets in food and beverage marketing. Most brands that have earned the certification treat it as a compliance tick — it appears on the label and nowhere else. We’ve built B2B wholesale portals where certification documentation is available at the product level, removing the barrier that slows procurement decisions with halal and kosher institutional buyers. And we’ve built content strategies that turn organic, non-GMO, or welfare certifications into the lead positioning of a brand rather than a footnote. The certification has commercial value that most food brands don’t capture.

How are you priced?

Flat monthly retainer. No commission on your sales, no percentage of your media budget, no revenue share on subscriptions or orders. The retainer covers the scope of work agreed at the start of the engagement. Additional services or channel expansions are quoted separately at fixed rates. We publish our pricing publicly because we think it should be part of the first conversation, not revealed at the bottom of a proposal you’ve spent three weeks reviewing.

What does the first 90 days look like?

The first 90 days with Perishly depend on your starting point. If you’re pre-launch, day one through thirty covers the category and brand audit, day thirty through sixty covers brand strategy and creative development, and day sixty through ninety covers eCommerce build and DTC launch. If you’re an established brand with distribution, the first 90 days focus on auditing current activity, identifying the highest-ROI gap, and deploying one or two well-resourced marketing programs rather than a broad campaign that spreads budget too thin. You’ll have a written brief at day seven and a measurable plan at day fourteen, regardless of starting point.

We work exclusively in food and beverage. That means we don’t need to learn your category, your channel dynamics, or your buyer’s decision criteria before we can brief creative. When you tell us you’re launching into ambient grocery at a £3.99 price point with a clean label positioning, we already know which brands you’re competing with for fixture space, what the category review cycle looks like, and what a buyer will want to see in your sell-in deck. That’s the difference between a specialist and a generalist — and in food, it shows up in the work immediately.Both. We work with food brands from pre-launch through to exit-ready. The engagement looks different at each stage. Pre-launch brands need brand strategy, packaging, and DTC infrastructure before they need paid media. Established brands with distribution need velocity-driving demand generation and trade support. Scaling brands need the operational marketing infrastructure — ERP integration, B2B portals, automation — that removes the admin overhead that slows growth. We scope the engagement to match where the brand actually is, not where a pitch deck says it should be.

Yes. Beverage marketing operates with different category mechanics to ambient food, fresh food, or food service. Ritual building, occasion mapping, format architecture, cold vs. ambient distribution, on-trade vs. off-trade promotion, alcohol licensing considerations, health claim restrictions, and sampling-to-purchase conversion are all beverage-specific marketing levers that don’t translate directly from a food brand playbook. We’ve worked with carbonated, functional, RTD, craft beer, spirit, and non-alcoholic beverage brands across retail and food service channels.Certification-based positioning is one of the most commercially underexploited assets in food and beverage marketing. Most brands that have earned the certification treat it as a compliance tick — it appears on the label and nowhere else. We’ve built B2B wholesale portals where certification documentation is available at the product level, removing the barrier that slows procurement decisions with halal and kosher institutional buyers. And we’ve built content strategies that turn organic, non-GMO, or welfare certifications into the lead positioning of a brand rather than a footnote. The certification has commercial value that most food brands don’t capture.Flat monthly retainer. No commission on your sales, no percentage of your media budget, no revenue share on subscriptions or orders. The retainer covers the scope of work agreed at the start of the engagement. Additional services or channel expansions are quoted separately at fixed rates. We publish our pricing publicly because we think it should be part of the first conversation, not revealed at the bottom of a proposal you’ve spent three weeks reviewing.The first 90 days with Perishly depend on your starting point. If you’re pre-launch, day one through thirty covers the category and brand audit, day thirty through sixty covers brand strategy and creative development, and day sixty through ninety covers eCommerce build and DTC launch. If you’re an established brand with distribution, the first 90 days focus on auditing current activity, identifying the highest-ROI gap, and deploying one or two well-resourced marketing programs rather than a broad campaign that spreads budget too thin. You’ll have a written brief at day seven and a measurable plan at day fourteen, regardless of starting point.

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Tell us about your food or beverage brand.

The audit is 60 minutes. We review your current position in the category, identify the highest-ROI marketing opportunity, and give you a written recommended first step. No obligation, no agency pitch. You’ll have findings in writing within 24 hours of the call.

60-minute operational audit — no sales pitch, no agency deck
Written findings delivered within 24 hours of the call
USA, Canada, and Gulf States operations
Zero commission on your revenue — flat retainer only
14-day go-live, guaranteed in every build agreement

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They built a 1,000-head ranch from 40 acres. Their eCommerce didn’t keep up.