Service Providers
VSFA Associate Members offer a diverse selection of services from marketing to payroll, distribution to legal and insurance. These companies support Vermont's specialty food and beverage industry through their work and expertise. Take a look at the members below and reach out as a VSFA Member for further questions and interest.
MMG Insurance MMG's program features: Kinney Pike The Insurance Center The Richards Group PayData Payroll Services Inc Plex Systems Earthwise Global LLC Lean Edge Marketing Retail Insights, LLC Retail Insights offers a tailored set of marketing services, Natural Insights for Well Being, designed exclusively for independent natural products retailers including nutritional education for staff and customers, in-store and online marketing communication and promotional tools, and community outreach assistance. We assist independent natural products retailers in developing and maintaining a unique and powerful brand identity in the marketplace. Freedom Foods LLC Rival Brands Think Dynamic Digital Junapr Local Maverick Associated Buyers Equinox Food Brokers Vermont Roots Inc Vermont Roots, Inc. is a distribution company that values relationships above all else. While fostering relationships with both customers and vendors, Vermont Roots has been able to create a strong network of partners that is continuously growing and expanding. With distribution channels covering the majority of New England and Upstate New York, Vermont Roots, Inc. can create a personalized distribution plan that will fit the needs of any vendor and reach almost any customer. Not only does Vermont Roots, Inc. have drivers making in person deliveries five days a week, but they also UPS products worldwide in order to satisfy the masses. Vermont Way Foods The Olive Table Vermont Farm to Plate Gravel & Shea, PC Merritt & Merritt As trusted partner and confidant, we give our clients an edge by connecting them with our extensive entrepreneurial network of mentors, peers, educational resources, angel and venture capital investors. Our active membership in local and national business organizations gives us a unique insight into trends and happenings in the current business environment. With a creative, straightforward style, we are less about legalese and more about helping you build your business. We will help you think outside the box – whether it’s our niche specialties in venture financing, intellectual property protection, and liquidity events or simply day-to-day issues such as employment matters, commercial contracts, and real estate transactions (See Our Focus). We’ll support you with thoughtful expertise and expeditious support. PAUL FRANK + COLLINS P.C. Creative Labels Of Vermont Inc Pacific Packaging ImageTek Labels Our company is staffed with a variety of technical and engineering professionals that listen to our customers’ needs and specifications. Our professional staff has close to 100 years of experience with advanced print and apply solutions, and is ready to work with you. Our custom manufactured solutions help manufacturers increase their productivity and assure a good return on their labeling investment. Give us a call or contact us through our Web site to discuss your requirements. Mclure Packaging Systems & Supplies Need a box to fit an oddly shaped product? We can handle it. Want more packaging options than the typical “drop and ship” company can provide? We've got it covered. Looking for more environmentally friendly packaging options? We can help. In need of inventory management support, you've come to the right place. Over and over again our customers have told us that our innovative, personal approach to meeting their packaging needs have exceeded their expectations. Vermont Container Corp | Unicorr Vanguard Renewables Woodstock Farmers Market Inc
MMG Insurance offers a comprehensive and competitive insurance program designed for your business, with an exclusive 5% discount for our members. The best part? You can use your own insurance agent. MMG works with a network of trusted independent advisors so your current agent can quote you easily on the program.
Kinney Pike has been serving the personal and business insurance needs of clients throughout New England since 1904. Our independent agency structure means that we can select among the broadest possible range of insurance offerings. Our local Vermont specialists are here to help you navigate complicated insurance decisions and guide you to the resources to better protect you.
We provide auto, home, life, health, and business insurance throughout New Hampshire and Vermont from our offices in Claremont, Newport, and Keene. Whether you need a complete review of your auto and home policies to ensure proper coverage, or an insurance plan for your business complete with liability, auto, and health insurance, our staff takes the time to get to know you as a person to personalize your coverage.
The Richards Group is a full-service insurance and financial services firm that provides comprehensive risk management, employee benefits and investment services just for you. At The Richards Group, we work alongside our clients to develop and implement long-range plans to lower their total cost of risk. We pride ourselves in our professionalism, experience and providing proactive service to protect all the things you value - because we know that it's not only what you do, but how you do it. Our independence means we represent you, not the interests of an insurance carrier. And we handle your claims in-house, with the authority to settle most routine claims on the spot. Since 1867, we've delivered results for clients throughout Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts and we welcome the opportunity to earn your business as a trusted advisor.
Integrated Payroll, Timekeeping, & HR Solutions That Work. Make the process less of a process. Allow our Vermont team of trained professionals to take the pain out of pay day and keep your business moving forward, with our scalable workforce management solutions. For over 30-years, clients throughout Vermont and beyond have counted on PayData to help them succeed. We’ve saved our customers worry, time and money by introducing customizable solutions that streamline the way they work. We care about our community and believe in the power of partnering with local firms and non-profits. Giving back is important to us and it makes us feel good, too! With PayData comes a level of personal and professional commitment you can’t find anywhere else.
BUILT FOR FOOD AND BEVERAGE MANUFACTURERS. Compliance. Control. Traceability. Optimize your manufacturing process end-to-end with the Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform and cloud ERP. All the Ingredients for Your Food and Beverage Operations. From the top floor to the plant floor, control every aspect of your operations with a single system. The Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform's cloud-based ERP and MES features allow you to easily eliminate paper processes and keep product safety a priority. Now, there's a recipe.
Vermont-based manufacturer of patented technology service workplace and institutional sanitation, including agriculture, dairy, hydroponic, potable water and energy efficiency.
Do you need the expertise, technology, and strategy to increase your sales and profitability on Amazon? Our deep collective experience in digital marketing, paid search, and building successful and profitable Amazon businesses will give you a serious advantage over your competition. After reviewing your business concerns, we will develop your custom Amazon roadmap and provide the guidance and support to execute it. Our firm specializes in Amazon to assist your business when you don’t have the time, experience, or game plan for making Amazon a lucrative channel for your business.
Retail Insights provides a complete range of consulting services to owners of independent natural products retail stores, from strategic guidance such as trade-area location, store siting, optimal size, and product mix; business valuation for estate planning, partnership or equity subdivision, or for the sale, merger or acquisition of business assets; and succession planning. We also provide operational guidance on lease negotiations, wholesale vendor relationships, profit margin structure, workforce management, merchandising, and the efficient use of space.
Here at Freedom Foods, we get to play with food every day. We work with artisan food producers to develop, produce, package and distribute their creations. We also produce a number of our own brands. Each recipe is hand-crafted in small batches by real people who are passionate about food. We don’t do mega-production, we create fabulous food.
We have a knack for transforming companies into stronger and more competitive versions of themselves. We discover what makes you bold and audacious and make sure you communicate that in everything you touch. We help you gain clarity about what your brand stands for so you have the focus needed to drive success from within. How can we make you a rival?
Think Dynamic Digital, LLC, is a woman-owned, socially responsible, digital marketing & business solutions company based in The Shires of Vermont and owned by Digital Marketing & Business Solutions Specialist, Andrea E. Bacchi. At Think Dynamic Digital, Andrea wants to solve problems, build brands and inspire people, and being a part of the VSFA is one way she can support and promote the specialty food industry and its producers all across the state, region and world.
Junapr is an award-winning, full-service communications, PR, and event management firm working with businesses and non-profits across the US, Canada, and Europe. Our roots are deep in the specialty food world; collectively, our team has worked with over 100 national and international brands to help them build brand awareness and increase sales by leveraging earned media strategies and tactics.
Local Maverick is an innovative platform committed to promoting and enhancing the local experience through retail, events, and marketing. Founded in Burlington, Vermont in 2020, we are driven by a passion to make supporting local businesses seamless for consumers and to empower local entrepreneurs, farmers, artists, and producers. Our curated selection spans food, drink, art, craft, and wellness products, connecting consumers with the finest local offerings. Additionally, we partner with larger brands who share our commitment to supporting our small businesses, environment, communities, and social justice via events and marketing.
We are a small natural and specialty foods wholesale company, serving the Northeast from our warehouse and offices in Southern New Hampshire. We began in the mid-seventies as a few people serving local markets and have grown into a small company with a diverse account base that includes retail stores, bakeries, institutions, producers and buying clubs across New England. We are known for our friendly, reliable customer service and our diverse product mix which includes many international/global foods, bulk goods, regionally-made specialties and natural foods.
EFB is a company who's goal, plain and simple, is to help make small food producers more successful by increasing sales and ensuring healthy growth. Equinox Food Brokers can help food producers promote their products, reach distribution and sales goals and save time and money. Local food producers work hard to make products that proudly reflect their creativity, passion for food and commitment to the finest ingredients and standards. Often, there is little time left over for developing markets and sharing their artisanal foods with distributors and customers who seek out specialty products. This is the place where Equinox Food Brokers can step in to help producers achieve their dreams and goals.
Vermont Roots, Inc. is the premier wholesale distributor of the highest quality Vermont and New England Specialty Food products. Vermont Roots was born out of necessity for the cottage food industries. There was a need to create a distribution network to deliver products to different market places all over the state of Vermont. For more than 27 years, Vermont Roots has grown to be the largest distributor of Vermont and New England specialty products throughout much of New England and Up State New York. Vermont Roots, Inc. is committed to excellent service, prompt delivery, and building relationships together with their producers and their customers. While paying close attention to detail coupled with a keen sense of market trends; as well as a robust understanding of the specialty food industry, Vermont Roots, Inc. is a great fit for both large and small companies alike.
Vermont, Roots Inc. is “Not the best because we are the oldest… the oldest because we are the best”
Vermont Way Foods is an initiative of The Vermont Food Hub Collaborative, which was formed to support Vermont farmers and promote food access in their communities. They aggregate, store, and distribute the bounty of Vermont so our farmers can farm and our makers can keep making great food. The collaborative is made up of: Intervale Center | Food Connects | Center for an Agricultural Economy | Green Mountain Farm Direct
Product offerings will include fresh produce, dairy, maple, meat, dry/shelf stable grocery, grains, eggs, fruit and other Vermont grown or produced products that would benefit from our work in creating opportunity.
The Olive Table offers premium Greek extra virgin olive oils harvested from the owners' family groves. The Olive Table's goal is to produce the highest quality olive oil with exceptional taste and health benefits. Both the Private Reserve and Early Harvest Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oils are single estate oils, cold extracted from 100% Koroneiki olives. They are unfiltered and offer the low acidity and high poly-phenol levels associated with the Koroneiki varietal. The oils are harvested with care, according to old world traditions, and processed to achieve excellence. The Olive Table also offers raw unfiltered honey from Greece, including unique 'forest' honey such as Fir and Pine.
Farm to Plate is Vermont’s food system plan being implemented statewide to increase economic development and jobs in the farm and food sector and improve access to healthy local food for all Vermonters.
As one of Vermont’s premier law firms, we are committed to helping you achieve your goals. Whether you’ve got a company to steer through a transition, a complex dispute to navigate, a legacy to ensure for the future – or all of the above – we’ll use every tool at our disposal to serve you, while remaining cost-effective. With a team recognized for excellence by publications such as Best Lawyers in America, US News Best Law Firms, Chambers USA, SuperLawyers, Gravel & Shea is the right choice when it matters most.
We know what it takes to foster strong business with over 27 years’ experience collaborating with emerging growth companies nationwide. We have cultivated an outstanding track record of assisting ventures from young startups to thriving enterprises with lasting significance. We are passionate about helping exceptional entrepreneurs start, scale, and succeed, positioning us as an integral part of any strategic management team.
Paul Frank + Collins’ lawyers practice in more than eleven diverse areas of the law. While rooted in Vermont, we maintain a regional, national, and international reach. Our experienced and award-winning attorneys bring a depth of knowledge and committed focus to each challenge and offer the unique combination of worldly insight + local know-how to every client.
TECHNOLOGY IN THE PRINTING INDUSTRY has changed considerably over the years. We at Creative Labels of Vermont are growing with the consumer trends by purchasing state of the art printing equipment and continuously training our team so that we can meet your current printing needs.
When it comes to all facets of packaging-related products, equipment and supply chain solutions, Pacific affords its customers the best of all worlds. With a tremendously broad range of the highest quality products, in-house manufacturing and converting capabilities, and the ability to optimize our customers’ business processes through Lean Supply Chain methods, Pacific’s solutions bring value to all facets of our customer's business.
Located in the center of the Precision Valley region of Vermont, ImageTek Labels converts and manufactures label printing and laminating solutions that fit our customer’s strict specifications, as well as converts high performance, durable media for a variety of industrial labeling applications.
At McLure Packaging we want one word to be synonymous with our name: Innovation. Anyone can sell a customer a box. At McLure Packaging we do so much more. From assisting clients in finding the perfect packaging solution for their product, to providing creative design and maintaining dependable distribution, all while providing down-to-earth, personal customer service.
Unicorr is among the largest converters of custom corrugated products and protective packaging in the Northeast. As a third-generation family-owned and operated business since 1946, we manufacture and distribute a wide range of corrugated containers, displays and retail packaging, and protective packaging at six manufacturing facilities and multiple satellite warehouses.
Vanguard Renewables is the largest recycler of food waste and organics in the Northeast. Our Farm Powered anaerobic digester facility in Salisbury, VT and our depackaging facility will provide Vermont food manufacturers and providers with clean, reliable, and sustainable food waste collection and recycling that complies with Vermont's Universal Recycling Food Scrap Ban.
The Farmers’ Market is a year-round mecca of fantastic food with two locations in Woodstock, Vt. and Waterbury, Vt. We offer fresh organic produce, local meats, specialty and everyday grocery products, coffee and espresso, baked goods, prepared foods, and more. Although each of our stores is unique to the community it serves, you’ll know you’re in the Farmers’ Market the moment you walk through the door. Our markets are bright and cheerful. And we focus on hiring not only service-happy people, but food-happy people, too. We’re passionate about food. And we love inspiring our customers to get creative and try new things.
