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CONTENTS
STAGE 1
f) Business Model
Continued
(ii) BUY
When seeking a suitable contract brewer or distiller, you need to take a number of
factors into account. This checklist will help you start the process but please note it is not
an exhaustive list:
• Generate a list of potential partners taking into account membership of Origin Green. This
will be essential in maximising state supports available to your business.
• What’s the length of contract that you require, is it long or short term?
• What will be their minimum and maximum production runs for your purposes?
• Do they have storage facilities (bonded) available as part of the contract arrangement?
• What are their quality standards and can they meet your requirements?
• Do they have the ability to produce liquid compliant with relevant technical iles and recipes
speciications that you might have?
• Can your customers or their audit team visit the facility?
• What formats of packaged product can they handle.
• Do they have the ability/capacity to produce seasonal oferings and limited editions?
• What is their lead time from order in to shipment out?
• Are you a big or a small customer to the contract facility ? Will this impact on availability of
your product, relative to their other production?
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