FREELANCE TECHNICAL CONSULTANCY

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ORGANISATION

FTC is a B2B consultancy specialized in food and food ingredients. FTC has obtained a great source of information and a large network of contacts in the FMCG industry.

Studies and technical scanning are carried out for companies and private individuals. FTC is capable to assist its customers in a large array of regions and in the best possible way.
FTC's field of work covers:

Foods and drinks
Ingredients

FTC is looking to create through comprehensive and reliable reports, a clear market view for its customers while increasing their market experience by highlighting the trends, identifying new markets/applications and finding new prospects/clients.

MAJOR CONSULTING ACTIVITIES

FTC is active in the following fields:

Marketing Development
Technical engineering
Investment Projects
Distribution and Supply Network

TECHNICAL SCANNING

Scanning is concerning both technology and sciences related to food products.

Technological Sciences

Existing ingredients : characterization and source
Technology used for extraction
Technology used for formulation
Application
New products
New technologies

Scanning is conducted on a two steps basis:

1. Desk research

In-house database
Patent databases
Specialized literature

2. Field research and Interviews

Ingredient Producer companies
Fine chemical companies
Technology transfer organizations
Industry meetings

Through this broad collaborative network, FTC can gather valuable expertise on trends and potentialities of ingredients and technology development.

TECHNICAL ENGINEERING

Process & technology

1. Project definition

Description of the different necessary elements: buildings, storage capacity, logistic, staff, etc.
Preliminary project schedule
Preliminary estimate of investment and production costs

2. Local site conditions

Project implementation -optimisation of the choice of process
Identification of competing processes
Suppliers short list
Preparation of inquiries to be sent to each supplier
Bid analysis and assistance to negotiation with bidders
Project implementation - Construction phase
Coordination between contractors
Budget and schedule control
Start-up of the facilities

NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

To elaborate new concepts of products or new ingredients, FTC has designed a multi-disciplinary approach focusing on:

Market trends
Nutrition issues
Consumer reactions to new concepts of products
Expectations of Food manufacturers

This can be used to define new ideas of products, new products for given ideas, new developments based on existing products, valorise new technologies.More practically, FTC performs desk researches, brainstorming with experts, analysis of selected market segments and an evaluation of their attractiveness, product prototype guides and development proposal.

MARKET RESEARCH

FTC can conduct a large number of customized studies in the field of food ingredients.
Ad hoc studies can be conducted on any question related to the field of activity covered by FTC. Possible area to be investigated are :

Ingredients
Foodstuff

FTC proceeds ate in three steps:

Analyze in-depth the market potential for a given product range: size, customers expectations, competitive products, price fixing, market segments, product life cycle, and communication.
Evaluation of the gap through reasonable metrics that quantify indicators of performance and variables
Explanation of the gap through analysis of quantitative comparisons and plotting of the relationships between variables