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MEP Success Stories from California

New Packaging Design Broadens Its Distribution to Grow the Business

Reported Year
2021
Synear Foods USA was successfully selling its frozen food products to U.S. retailers catering to Chinese consumers but wanted to significantly broaden distribution of its dumpling products and launch into mainstream retailers. Synear wanted to reexamine their branding and "look and feel" for appeal to the broadest possible U.S. consumer audience

Surviving the Pandemic!

Reported Year
2021
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the U.S. in March 2020 Sewing Incubator had just begun operations. Faced with product cancellations, Sewing Incubator quickly realized the need to diversify manufacturing and establish sound financial reporting systems in order to survive. The owners knew they had the ability to provide personal protective equipment

Rebuilding Infrastructure Through Training

Reported Year
2021
DFI needed an immediate solution to improve product quality and on-time delivery. They had experienced a spike in customer return and, via internal reviews, identified pre-shipment quality issues. In addition, their on-time delivery was low. In assessing the issues, DFI management isolated a key root cause as blueprint reading errors. As a company

LGM Soil Amendments Grows Business through Website & Brand Revitalization

Reported Year
2020
LGM required skilled guidance in defining their position, achieving a competitive advantage, and establishing a unique value proposition in their marketplace. In June 2020, they sought to modernize their brand while still retaining linkages to their 1946 roots. In addition, they looked to increase their new user (organic) search rankings, expand

Sales & Marketing Program Opens Pathways to New Opportunities to Grow the Business

Reported Year
2020
For some years Metzer Farms experienced only minor increases in revenue and wanted to accelerate sales growth via its ecommerce website. Metzer had started to lose online market share to larger competitors with better resources and superior positioning in major search engines. The seasonal nature of their business added further challenges in

Artech Industries Inc, Grows their Business through a Sales & Marketing Campaign

Reported Year
2020
Recent events have negatively impacted Artech’s ability to achieve its strategic growth objectives. For the last three years, revenue had been trending downwards and customer consolidation has decreased its customer base. In addition, increased global competition, increasing costs for metals, challenging supply chain issues and a lack of in-house

EnviroKinetics Attains ISO 9001 Certification and Increases Sales

Reported Year
2020
Key customers informed EnviroKinetics that they require ISO 9001 certification to continue to receiving orders from them. EnviroKinetics recognized that it lacked the internal resources to put processes and procedures in place to implement a quality management system compliant to ISO 9001 efficiently and effectively. In order to minimize disruption