Eureka is an independent technical consultancy, providing expert resource for product development challenges for the food and health-care industries.
With customers ranging from multi-national to local independent companies, Eureka personnel have created a wide range of successful new retail products, and ingredients, for the food and health-care industries in worldwide markets demonstrating the imaginative translation of Consumers’ life-styles into successful Market Products. Eureka’s understanding of Legislation, Consumer, Marketing and Production issues is key to ensuring an effective response at the various stages of product development projects. Expertise in a broad variety of product areas ensures local custom and practise and regulatory issues are effectively addressed within each project area.
Working as a satellite resource or an integral part of client operations, Eureka develops practical solutions for product development projects. The following broadly describes Eureka’s key activities:
· Market review and product opportunity analysis
· New product development: working with multi-disciplinary teams to achieve product launches meeting budgetary, timing, legislative, production, shelf-life and marketing claim requirements
· Experimental design and technology review to produce lateral solutions for new and existing technical challenges
· Product optimisation for appearance, taste, texture and overall acceptability
· Ingredient rationalisation: from historical presence to effective selection for functionality, quality, cost and overall product performance
· Production scale up and processing optimisation
Effecting hands on advice, from laboratory to production, Eureka will guide developments to ensure efficient transfer of concepts to marketplace.
Fields of Expertise
· Beverages: carbonates & still, alcoholic and non-alcoholic, ready-to-drink, concentrated & powdered
· Cereal based goods: bars, biscuits, breads, cakes, cereals, crackers & pastries
· Confectionery: chocolate, chewing gum & sugar
· Dairy: cheese & cheese spreads, desserts, dips, fromage frais, ice creams, milk drinks, table spreads, yogurts
· Nutritional: dietary supplements, meal replacements, fortified and nutritionally modified foods
· Sauces & Condiments - custards, dressings, gravies, pickles, sweet & savoury sauces
· Savoury - soups, pastas, pulses, vegetables
· Toppings & Fillings - creams, jams, sweet & savoury spreads