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Navigator Sales and Marketing Partners with Mondelēz International SnackFutures Innovation and Venture Hub
Orange County, CA: Mondelēz International’s SnackFutures has tapped Navigator Sales and Marketing, a full-service food broker, to provide strategy through commercialization for their emerging snacking brands. Navigator’s nimble and disciplined approach to commercializing emerging brands brings real-time learnings and optimization to launch brands and accelerate sales. SnackFutures seeks additional ‘emerging brand’ expertise in the key channels: supermarket, premium/specialty, mass/club, convenience, ethnic and drug channels. SnackFutures is Mondelēz International’s innovation and venture hub that is dedicated to unlocking emerging snacking opportunities around the world. SnackFutures will capitalize on new trends and mobilize entrepreneurial talent and technologies to build and grow small brands with large-scale potential, and leverage other growth opportunities across snacking.
“One of our main goals at Navigator Sales and Marketing is to accelerate growth for our clients. It’ exciting to work with the innovation hub and take our expertise to such a proven snacking company,” said Subriana Pierce, Co-Managing Partner of Navigator Sales and Marketing.
SnackFutures’ mission is aligned with Mondelēz International’s purpose of empowering people to snack right by offering the right snack, at the right time, in the right way. The focus is in creating and investing emerging well-being brands:
- Invent: Develop new brands and businesses in key strategic areas
- Venture: Invest with start-up entrepreneurs to seed new businesses
Brigette Wolf, Head of SnackFutures, Mondelēz International says “partnering with Navigator is a great benefit to our team and efforts. They have success in the areas we want to focus on with our projects and their approach to our brand brings unique market insights.”
Navigator Sales and Marketing and Mondelēz International SnackFutures began working together on the Dirt Kitchen Snacks brand. Dirt Kitchen Snacks is a plant based snack brand making vegetables snackably delicious. Two lines include air dried vegetable and nut mix with delicious culinary flavors and air dried veggies crisps utilizing rescued veggies.
About Navigator Sales & Marketing
Navigator Sales & Marketing is a full-service broker representing a variety of products. Led by the best in the industry, NSM leaders are trusted partners and strategic advisors committed to customers’ and clients’ success. Navigator is rapidly expanding their roster of clients including brands such as PhURE Water, ECOS, On the Border chips, North Coast organic apple juice and sauces, Old Trapper beef jerky, H2rOse, Deep River snacks, Partake Foods, Ramona’s Frozen Foods and many others.
Navigator has earned the reputation for excellence by successfully bringing unique brands from concept to being on shelves at a national level. Navigator enjoys product representation in over 12,000 stores, with Delhaize, Albertsons/Safeway, Ralphs, Food Lion, Whole Foods, Stater Bros, Bristol Farms, Savemart, Raley’s, Northgate Gonzalez Markets, Vallarta, Gelsons, Smart & Final, HEB and Kroger among them. Visit www.navigatorsales.com, like us on Facebook, and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.