About Sapling Brand & Marketing
Sapling Brand & Marketing Consultancy is run by Kizzy Beckett, an award winning, experienced FMCG Marketing Director with a specialism in strategy and brand building gained from years managing household names such as SMIRNOFF, GUINNESS, KETTLE CHIPS and GENIUS. Based in Norfolk, Kizzy is a published author, guest lecturer and acts as a Board Advisor for scaling startups.
BRAND support designed for SMEs
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If you are a Food and Drink SME with big ambitions, marketing can feel like an expensive and daunting process. We are a one stop shop for SMEs to access any and all brand management support. From initial brand development to channel strategy, retailer sell in, communications planning (including social media), pack design and more, we have an expert who can help. We can either take on the marketing and act as your outsourced Marketing Director or can work in partnership with your existing team to build great plans.
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If you're thinking about generating investment or preparing a founder exit, we can work with you to get everything you need in place.
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In-house expertise
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Unlike many consultancies, our experience comes almost entirely from working within household brands instead of agencies, so we know the challenges and opportunities you are likely to face. As well as the skills Sapling can offer directly, we have a network of brilliant subject matter experts to draw from, to cover almost any challenge you might share with us.
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100% positive feedback
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Since setting up in Summer 2023, we have worked with a brilliant collection of brands from Iced Tea to Chocolate, Condiments to Breakfast Drinks. Read on below to hear a few testimonials and get in touch if you would like a no obligation chat about how we could help your brand.
“One of the best strategic marketers I've had the pleasure of working with...Kizzy is superb at identifying key brand objectives and mapping out the activities that need to take place to achieve them"
— Tash Jones, Commercial Director, Fairfield's Crisps
“Really great work, I'm super impressed!!”
— Adrian Massey, Founder Earth'd Drinks
“I'd work with Kizzy again in a heartbeat!!”
— Manon Guillot-Cockerill, Senior Brand Manager, Bonduelle
“A powerhouse marketer!...I’d highly recommend [Sapling] to anyone who needs senior marketing support and strategic thinking”
— Kim Gelling, Commercial Director, Charlie Bigham's
“Kizzy has been instrumental in helping Bio&Me gain deeper insights into our category shoppers and existing consumers. She has expertly guided us in shaping the right questions to gather meaningful feedback and presenting the findings in a way that drives actionable decisions. When it comes to consumer studies, Kizzy is always our first phone call.”
— Michael Cheeseman, Marketing Director, Bio&Me
“Kizzy's experience and knowledge in brand strategy has been both invaluable and educational.
It has been a complete pleasure working with her.
She is great at identifying the brand objectives and mapping activities to achieve them. In a short period of time Kizzy overhauled our social channels and significantly increased followers as well as creating a single look, feel and way of talking about the brand!!”
— Sushma Harris-Godfrey, Harris & James Foods
Kizzy is a SUPERSTAR!
We've only recently started working with her on an ad hoc basis, which has been affordable and flexible for a small biz like ours.
In just one day we covered a ton of ground and made some genuine progress with an upcoming retail launch plan.
Kizzy was hugely knowledgeable, easy to work with, and brought out the best in us as a team.
We can't wait to work with her again soon to supercharge our marketing and brand-building!
5 STARS :)
— Joe Hill, Co-Founder, One Planet Pizza
