Contract manufacturing
Bakeit manufacturing
Packaging Options
Bulk bags
Doy Pouches
Retail bag in Box
2-2kg food service pouch
12.5kg bags for bulk food service options
What to Consider When Choosing a Manufacturer
Choosing the right partner to manufacture and package your products is crucial. Factors like pricing, turnaround time, minimum order quantities, certifications, and product quality all determine the best fit for your brand. While many manufacturers exist, only a few will truly align with your specific requirements. Since finding the ideal supplier can be both time-consuming and costly, knowing the right questions to ask from the start can make the process far more efficient.
What are the typical fees for your category of product?
Ask specifically about "Toll" or "Tolling" fees, as that will allow you to compare apples to apples across producers.
What are the packaging capabilities?
Some private label manufacturers do not do packaging in-house, others may not be able to handle your brand's specific packaging varieties. If you don't know the answers to this topic in advance, it is difficult to arrive at a comprehensive cost estimate.
Food Safety Standards?
Contract manufacturers maintain a wide variety of food safety standards. Your brand's clients may have specific standards that must be met in order to satisfy contractual requirements. Big retailers often have rigorous standards while specialty food stores rarely do. Make sure to ask potential manufacturing partners about their food safety programs, if they undergo third party audits, and, before going to contract, be sure to review copies of any food safety certifications they claim to have.
Commitment to quality?
Many white label or private label manufacturers can produce high quality product as samples, but drop in quality once they go to full scale production. Reviewing products that candidate manufacturers already produce at full production volume can help brand managers determine if they are capable of maintaining the level of quality their brand needs. It's similarly important to negotiate a contract that specifies quality parameters and holds the producer accountable for out-of-spec products.
What certifications are carried?
If your products needs a specific labeling claim, such as Kosher or Non-GMO, it is critical to ask the candidate manufacturing partners right away. There is no point wasting your time and theirs on producing quotes only to discover that they process wheat on their equipment and your product needs to be certified gluten-free.
What are the Minimum Order Quantities (MOQs) or Minimum Run Volumes?
This will tell you how large your orders need to be, at least, in order to work with a given partner. Emerging brands often don't have the financial flexibility to invest in massive production runs.
In addition to creating unique products, Bakeitfood can package in stand-up pouches, bulk bags or bins, or in custom packaging that meets clients’ needs.
Need to develop packaging for your product? Bakeitfood has relationships with a variety of domestic packaging suppliers and would be happy to help you source the right package for your product.
Bakeitfood is based in Hampshire, UK, with certifications including BRCGS, IFS, HACCP, and AOECS. Bakeitfood is a registered facility capable of producing under all major certification standards. The Bakeitfood management team, including HACCP-certified directors overseeing production, brings the experience and expertise to meet the requirements of certified gluten-free production, Non-GMO Project compliance, and GMP food-safety programs.
Bakeitfood features some of the fastest project turn around times in the food co-packing industry. From initial scope of work consultation to first production run, our on-boarding team is focused on helping you get your project up and running as quickly as possible. We are always pushing to improve on this critical dimension. From customer inquiry to delivery of the customer’s first purchase order is a key performance indicator that our management team reviews regularly.