FFI provides sophisticated financial consulting and technical assistance to growing food, beverage and value-added agriculture businesses
Benefits of FFI consulting & technical assistance
With FFI consulting and technical assistance, you get customized, expert help making your food and farm business profitable and raising money. Our food and farm finance experts provide highly customized recommendations and hands-on help with improving your business model, accounting and financial reporting, documenting the business to support fundraising, and preparing to pitch your business to lenders and investors.
We take the time needed—with you—to understand, research, and communicate what you and your business need in order to succeed. Clients often hire us to produce and / or help with:
- A realistic and clear business model path that you can articulate to anyone who asks
- Financial systems and reports that will stand up to scrutiny by banks and investors
- A credible business plan with realistic assumptions about future growth
- A digital financial package to share with your stakeholders and support your fundraising
Participants say…
“FFI was so incredibly helpful to me during the planning stage of my entrepreneurial journey. With their guidance, I was able to see detailed financial projections and ultimately secure funding to purchase my business!”
— Mary Florer, Over the Moon Cheese
Consulting Areas
Clients have worked with our experts to achieve success in these and many other areas of food and farm business:
- Increasing sales
- Maximizing profitability
- Financial projections
- Business model strategy
- Raising money needed for growth
- Value-added product development / expanding beyond farmer’s markets
- Setting up a manufacturing facility
- Expansion from local to national brand
- All aspects of food, farm, and beverage profitability and resilience
FFI consulting is right for you if …
Your business is profitable and you want to take its performance to the next level
Your business’s market position and profitability are eroding and you know you need to adapt
You’re a young company that has never reached profitability, and you know things need to change
You need to raise money and know you need to get prepared to be successful
Your business is too small for traditional investment banking but you need to raise equity and / or debt financing
Your business needs to expand to reach a critical mass of sales to be economically sustainable
Your business model needs to evolve to become economically sustainable
Other Ways to Connect with Qualified Experts
Due to high demand, we are not always able to accept new clients. You may be able to get the help you need from one of our training programs or cohort programs (linked in the top menu). Also, you can find independent consultants who have been trained by FFI via our Directory of Food and Farm Business Consultants. They have been certified through our Level 1 and 2 Consultant Training program and received training, skill-building, and coaching from our food and farm business and finance experts.
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Consulting Success Story
Yumbutter – Clarifying A Business Model Path and Building a National Brand
Matt D’Amour and Adrian Reif didn’t just create a nut butter company; they pursued their dream of running the world’s most responsible food company.
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