North
American Import & Export Co.
(NAIE)
New Jersey, USA
Client
Profile: Distributor of fine meats, seafood, cheese, produce,
caviar, pasta and other specialties
Competitive
Advantage: Ships products overnight directly to customer
from the source ensuring the freshest, best quality product
Target
Market: Upscale restaurants across the U.S.
JKG
began marketing in: 1996
Marketing
Services
• Direct Marketing: Mail and Fax
• Brand strategy and Logo Development
• Catalog Design
Results:
1996 sales: $10,000
2004 sales: $2,000,000
No outside sales; staff travel unnecessary
No cold calling; prospective customers call in response to direct
ads
NAIE
uses overnight delivery to connect the finest U.S. restaurants
with over 20 sources of product. Since 1996, JKG has performed
all of NAIE’s marketing communications. JKG’s direct
marketing generates consistent sales growth and permits NAIE
sales staff to stay inside.
Haida
Gwaii Local Foods Processing Project
British Columbia, Canada
Client
Profile: Canadian association supporting economic well-being
of local community is in feasibility stage of offering a fair-trade
dried Chanterelle mushroom product to the U.S. market.
Competitive
Advantage: Premium quality product, superior processing
and reconstitution, and fair-trade
Target
Market: Wholesale Distributors, Retail and Food Service
Establishments
JKG began
marketing in: 2005
Marketing
Services
• Market research project to determine project viability
given product’s premium price
Results:
Generated candid evaluation of potential demand of the dried
Chanterelle product in the U.S. wholesale, food service and
retail markets.
Grandview
Mushrooms
Washington, USA
Client
Profile: Distributor of wild and cultivated mushrooms and
mushroom products: shitake, chanterelle, morel, hedgehog, truffles
and other varieties
Competitive
Advantage: No intermediaries; variety of cultivated and
wild-harvested mushrooms, and producer of mushroom products
Target
Market: Fine Restaurants and Gourmet Consumers
JKG
began marketing in: 2004
Marketing
Services
• Brand Development and management
• Fax Flyer Design
• Direct Fax
• Letter inserts
• Brochure and website design
Results:
Eastern U.S. sales doubled every week for the first two months
of the marketing campaign.
Grandview
is one of Washington State’s largest sellers of domestic
and wild mushrooms. Grandview’s primary target markets
were wholesale distributors and Washington state restaurants.
In two months of direct marketing, JKG turned the East Coast
restaurant segment into Grandview’s largest customer segment.
Grandview recently commissioned JKG to reach the consumer market.
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