Ideation to Plate

From blue-sky
idea to on-shelf.

Food Innovation Global is an international food & beverage innovation house. We take products from first spark to supermarket shelf — formulation, sourcing, packaging and commercialisation across four continents — powered by FInnoGlo, our own eight-application platform for food manufacturers.

blue sky
to on-shelf
PETA Award · Best Vegan Meat
Gold Medal · Vanilla Ice Cream
50+Years of industry expertise
50+Products delivered
4Continents of operation
8Apps in our platform
What we do

Three ways we get food to market.

Whether you need a brand-new product, a more resilient supply chain, or finished goods ready for shelf — we plug in where you need us.

01

Strategic Innovation

End-to-end new product development: from consumer insight and concept through formulation, packaging and commercialisation.

  • NPD strategy & concept design
  • Formulation & recipe development
  • Packaging & commercialisation
  • Award-winning track record
02

Global Ingredient Sourcing

High-quality raw materials from trusted growers and processors across multiple regions — solving shortages and unlocking cost opportunities.

  • Tomatoes, basil & corn starch
  • Plant-based proteins
  • Supply continuity planning
  • Cost-opportunity sourcing
03

Global Product Portfolio

Finished food products ready for retail, food service and hospitality — proven recipes, compliant labels, shelf-ready.

  • Pesto sauces & passata
  • Fruit purées & frozen pasta
  • Ready meals
  • Plant-based alternatives
How we work

One journey, five moves.

STEP — 01

Discover

Consumer insight, trend mapping and blue-sky ideation that's grounded in commercial reality.

STEP — 02

Define

Concept briefs, technical requirements and cost targets agreed before a single trial begins.

STEP — 03

Develop

Formulation, prototyping and sensory iteration until the product earns its place on shelf.

STEP — 04

Deliver

Factory trials, specifications and compliance — scaled safely to target cost and quality.

STEP — 05

Drive

Post-launch insight loops that feed learnings straight back into the next innovation cycle.

Our platform

FInnoGlo. Eight apps.
One login. One truth.

Everything we've learned from decades of taking food products to market, built into software. FInnoGlo runs the whole operating rhythm of a food business — design, execution, governance, margin, architecture, knowledge and change — on one identity, one permission model and one tenancy story. Buy one module or all eight; the login never changes.

8Applications, one session
1Login & identity across the suite
Day oneMulti-tenant by design
Per-appEntitlements & roles per organisation
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Identity

True SSO, not eight passwords

One authentication authority, one cross-app session. Sign in anywhere and you're signed in everywhere — the launcher shows exactly the apps your organisation is entitled to.

Tenancy

Organisations, first-class

Multi-tenant from day one, never a retrofit. Every record carries its organisation; one customer's data is invisible to every other by construction — with a silo-per-customer deployment option for data sovereignty.

Access

Roles that mean something

A single role-and-permission engine, scoped per organisation and per app, drives every permission in every module — auditable in one place instead of eight.

Agentic throughout: Betty and her sibling copilots are embedded in every module — drafting briefs, costing recipes, narrating slip risk, citing sources — and every AI write still passes through your approval gates.

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The suite

One colour recipe, eight hues.

Every FInnoGlo app wears the same colour recipe rotated to its own hue on a twelve-slot wheel — many apps, one platform. Turn the dial, or pick a module.

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Twelve slots, 30° apart. Eight occupied, four reserved — a new app claims a slot on day one and inherits the whole design system.

FinnoPro

Module 01 · Design — NPD & PLM
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Every product starts as a question. FinnoPro carries it from the first idea to the supermarket shelf — with the maths and the regulations built in.

21 modulesDiscovery → Development → Launch
HSR v9Official FSANZ algorithm, verified against 81 boundary tests
1 threadRecipe, cost, compliance & artwork — versioned together
  • Versioned recipes & BOM — branch, compare, roll back
  • What-if & least-cost formulation that respects spec
  • Full P&L costing — margin talk at the bench, not after launch
  • NIP, NPSC & Health Star Rating generated from the recipe
  • Artwork & AI mockups before the agency is engaged
  • Trials, stage-gates & Betty, the embedded AI assistant
The Idea-to-Shelf flow
DiscoverConcepts, briefs, early screening
FormulateRecipes, what-if, costing
ComplySpecs, NIP, HSR, allergens
TrialFactory runs, verdicts, gates
LaunchArtwork, P&L, handover

Better together: approved trial verdicts flow straight into HORREO's supplier sign-off gates, and NPD ingredients promote into spec-backed supplier items — a signed integration contract, live in both directions.

Who it's for

AU/NZ food & beverage manufacturers who design their own products — NPD managers, food technologists, and the finance people who sign off on margin. Built AU-native from day one: FSANZ, ABN, GST, en-AU.

Try this

See your own recipe in FinnoPro. Bring one product to a working session — we'll rebuild it live, costs, panel and stars included.

HORREO

Module 02 · Execution — Supply-Chain Quality
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Know every batch. Trust every supplier. Trace every gram — in both directions, before the auditor asks.

0–100Supplier scorecards with A–F grades from real quality history
Auto-NCRSpec-vs-COA intelligence raises non-conformances itself
Both waysBatch traceability — supplier lot to shelf and back
  • Supplier onboarding & scorecards with AVL sign-off gates
  • PO lifecycle & goods-in — quarantine until QA release
  • Spec-vs-COA matching, parameter by parameter
  • NCR / CAPA state machine with enforced close-out
  • Immutable stock ledger — append-only, forever
  • Recall explorer — a mock recall becomes a query
The quality gate sequence
ApproveSupplier onboarding, certs, AVL sign-off
OrderPO lifecycle, expected deliveries
QuarantineGoods-in held pending QA
VerifyCOA vs spec, auto-NCR on failure
ReleaseInto batch inventory, on the ledger

Better together: the approved-vendor gate pulls live trial verdicts from FinnoPro, and ingredients born in NPD arrive as spec-backed supplier items — design and execution finally reconciled on one platform.

Who it's for

QA managers, supply-chain and warehouse leads at AU/NZ food manufacturers — anyone who owns supplier risk, incoming QC or the recall plan. Product data normalised to the PIF v6 dictionary.

Try this

Run your next mock recall in HORREO. Bring a batch number — we'll trace it both directions live and time it. The drill that used to take a weekend becomes a query.

FinnoPMO

Module 03 · Governance — Stage-Gate on Jira
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Jira runs the sprint. FinnoPMO runs the portfolio — gates, decisions, and the funnel view Jira structurally cannot give you.

5 gatesProven NPD template seeded — or declare your own model
Go / KillEvery gate decision recorded, with who and why
0 changeBoards, sprints and assignees stay exactly where they are
  • Jira connect & mirror — webhooks keep it current
  • Gate decision records: Go, Conditional, Hold, Recycle, Kill
  • Funnel & attrition analytics across the whole portfolio
  • Slippage & bottleneck insight — where the weeks go
  • Pipeline value balance & idea-to-launch cycle time
  • AI portfolio analyst — briefing packs before each gate
The seeded NPD gate model
Gate 1Business case approved
Gate 2Organoleptic review passed
Gate 3Final specification locked
Gate 4Commercial launch approved
Gate 5Post-launch keep / kill

Better together: the gate template is seeded from the same Idea-to-Shelf taxonomy that structures FinnoPro's NPD flow and FInnoArch's process backbone — one process language across design, governance and architecture.

Who it's for

Portfolio and program managers, NPD directors, and PMOs at food manufacturers who run stage-gate on Jira — or wish they could prove they do. Kill decisions are the cheapest money a portfolio ever saves.

Try this

Point FinnoPMO at your Jira. Connect one project and see its funnel, gates and slippage mapped — same afternoon. No migration, no re-training.

FinnoValue

Module 04 · Margin — VA/VE Programs
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Value = Function ÷ Cost. Reduce the cost or improve the function — never trade function away silently.

L0 → L5Finance-grade pipeline: raw idea to savings banked in the P&L
15–40%Cost-reduction potential on studied items (SAVE method)
3–6% COGSWhat the majors' always-on margin programs deliver yearly
  • Programs & cascaded targets against a COGS baseline
  • Loss trees pricing up giveaway, yield & CIP losses
  • Always-on idea box, open to the whole plant
  • Facilitated VA/VE studies — the SAVE six-phase plan built in
  • Food-specific quality gates: sensory parity, allergens, labels
  • Banked, provably — savings count when finance validates them
The idea maturity ladder
L0–L1Raised & screened
L2Business case built
L3Validated in trial
L4Implemented in plant
L5Banked — finance-verified in the P&L

Better together: recipe and BOM ideas connect to FinnoPro's formulation engine; supplier and material ideas draw on HORREO's spec and price history. Savings ideas stop being guesses when the platform already holds the product truth.

Who it's for

Operations directors, continuous-improvement leads, procurement and finance at food manufacturers with a margin target and no system carrying it — the majors' always-on margin program, productised for the mid-market.

Try this

Cost one loss tree with us. Pick a line — we'll build its loss tree and show where the first 2% of COGS is hiding.

FInnoArch

Module 05 · The Map — Enterprise Architecture
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See the whole enterprise on one map — strategy to servers — and govern every change that touches it.

6 layersStrategy · business · applications · information · integration · technology
7 pillarsRequirements, security, risk, change, quality, validation, governance
L0–L3Validation model verifying the architecture actually holds
  • Six-layer repository in food-industry vocabulary
  • Capability maturity heatmap executives read in one glance
  • Integration as a first-class layer — where food risk lives
  • Regulatory register: FSANZ, HACCP, SQF, BRCGS linked to systems
  • Governance decisions with ADR-style institutional memory
  • AI copilot that pre-drafts decisions, never writes unapproved
The validation ladder
L0Elements exist & are owned
L1Links are complete & coherent
L2Assessments are current
L3Governance verdicts recorded

Better together: the Idea-to-Shelf taxonomy modelled here is the same backbone FinnoPMO seeds its gate templates from and FinnoPro structures NPD around — the enterprise map and the operating tools speak one process language.

Who it's for

Architecture and IT leaders, transformation programs, and consultancies who need a defensible map of a food business — without enterprise-EA-suite pricing. Audit prep becomes a filter.

Try this

Map one value stream with us. We'll model your Idea-to-Shelf flow — apps, data, interfaces, risks — in a single workshop.

FinnoVault

Module 06 · The Memory — Knowledge
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Your organisation already knows the answer. FinnoVault finds it — and shows you the receipt.

100%Obsidian-compatible round-trip — export, work offline, re-import
CitedEvery answer grounded in retrieved passages, linked to source
HybridSemantic + keyword search over notes and ingested documents
  • Markdown vault, open format — never locked in
  • Editor & live graph of how knowledge connects
  • Claude ingestion pipeline — day one, the vault is full
  • Citation-grounded Ask — verifiable, auditable answers
  • Distillation loop — AI proposes, humans approve
  • Suite enablement home for every module's training
The knowledge pipeline
CaptureNotes, wikilinks, tags
IngestDocs & URLs parsed and chunked
EmbedContextualised by Claude
RetrieveHybrid search + cited Ask
DistillHuman-approved refinement

Better together: organisational knowledge is sensitive — FinnoVault inherits the platform's full identity and permission model rather than running its own. It's also the suite's enablement home: every module's training guides live here, published and searchable.

Who it's for

Quality and technical teams drowning in SOPs and specs, L&D owners, and any food business where the answer exists — in someone's head or a forgotten folder.

Try this

Feed it your messiest folder. We'll ingest a real document set and let you interrogate it — citations included.

FinnoChange

Module 07 · The People — Change Management
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The project plan shows green while people quietly work around the change. FinnoChange measures the people side — and moves it.

6–7×More likely to meet objectives with excellent change management (Prosci)
A·D·K·A·RFive readiness dimensions scored per group — barrier point derived
1 heatmapChange saturation across every team, before the next launch
  • Initiatives with provenance — linked to what caused them
  • Seeded phase templates: Lewin, Kotter & FIG hybrids
  • Impact, WIIFM & champions per stakeholder group
  • ADKAR heatmap & radar — see the needle actually move
  • Pulse surveys, honestly anonymous with a response floor
  • Resistance log root-caused against ADKAR
The ADKAR sequence — how individuals actually change
AwarenessOf why the change is needed
DesireTo participate and support it
KnowledgeOf how to change
AbilityTo perform the new way
ReinforcementSo it sticks

Better together: FinnoValue keeps the sensory gates and savings maths, FinnoPMO the gate decisions, FinnoVault the training content — FinnoChange runs the coalition, the comms, the evidence and the "retire the old spreadsheet" step over all of it.

Who it's for

R&D and operations leaders, QA managers and transformation sponsors at food manufacturers — anyone whose last rollout technically succeeded and practically didn't.

Try this

Bring one live change. We'll map its stakeholder groups, score readiness, and show you the barrier point — same session. Training is wasted on a group stuck at Desire.

Platform & Portal

Module 08 · The Foundation — SSO & Tenancy
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Eight apps. One login. One source of truth for who can see what, in which organisation, across the whole suite.

8 appsOne identity, one session, one cookie domain
Day oneMulti-tenant by design — organisations are first-class
Per-appEntitlements: each organisation sees exactly what it subscribes to
  • True SSO — email verification, rate limiting, cross-app sessions
  • One RBAC engine scoped per organisation and per app
  • App catalog & launcher driven by entitlements
  • Portal front door — orgs, invitations, roles, catalog
  • One Postgres, shared identity schema + schema per app
  • Sovereign option — silo-per-customer deployment
From zero to working suite
Create orgTenant born first-class
Entitle appsCatalog drives the launcher
Invite peopleOnboarding done once, correctly
Assign rolesScoped per org, per app
WorkOne session across eight apps

Better together: adding an app to the suite costs a directory and a schema, not a re-implementation of login, tenancy and permissions — the six newer apps are the proof. Centralise identity; federate domain.

Who it's for

IT, security and operations leadership; platform evaluators — the only AU-native design-to-execution food platform below enterprise price.

Try this

Buy one module or all eight — the identity story never changes. Sold as SaaS, or as your own sovereign deployment.

Who we are

An international food innovation house — operating across four continents, from concept labs to commercial production lines.

Food Innovation Global partners with retailers, manufacturers and challenger brands worldwide. Our innovation, sourcing and commercial teams work as an extension of yours — backed by an established network of growers, processors and co-manufacturers across Australia, Europe, the Americas and Asia. And because we run our own products through FInnoGlo, every module in the platform was proven on real food before it was offered to anyone else.

Retail Private Label Food Service Hospitality Plant-Based AU-Native Software
AU
AustraliaHeadquarters · Innovation, Operations & Platform
EU
EuropeIngredient sourcing & supply partners
AM
AmericasMarket development & distribution
AS
AsiaManufacturing & co-packing network
Get in touch

Whatever's on your mind — reach out.

A product idea, a sourcing challenge, a platform demo — or something we haven't thought of yet. Bring one real product, batch number or Jira project; we'll work it live. No pitch deck needed.

[email protected] +61 419 813 724 AUSTRALIA · EUROPE · AMERICAS · ASIA
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