SPICIN
BRAND BOOK
BRANDED GOODS | CO- PACKAGING | INDUSTRIAL ENHANCEMENT PRODUCTS
WHO IS SPICIN?
CERTIFICATIONS & CAPABILITIES
CO-PACK BRANDS
PRIVATE LABELING
OWNER & CEO
CFO & CPO
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT EXECUTIVE
DIRECTOR OF FOOD SAFETY
VICE PRESIDENT HR DIRECTOR OR PRODUCTION
ABOUT US LEADERSHIP & TEAM MANAGEMENT TEAM
RETAIL MANAGEMENT
ACCOUNT MANAGER
SALES & MARKETING
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PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
INSTITUTIONAL PACKAGING
BRAND INFO
1 Da'Bomb
2 Pain Is Good
3 American Stockyard
4 Tradición
FOOD SAFETY & QUALITY
FOOD SAFETY SPECIALIST
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ABOUT US
WHO IS SPICIN
Founded in 1999 as “Original Juan Specialty Foods”
2018 transitioned to Spicin Foods
Female & Minority Owned
60,000 sqft Facility
200+ Awards and Honors both Nationally & Internationally Manufacturer of high-quality products
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CERTIFICATIONS & CAPABILITES
CERTIFICATIONS
BRC
Organic
Kosher
Non-GMO
Gluten Free
CAPABILITES
Vegan
All Natural
Whole 30
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WORLD FAMOUS CO-PACK BRANDS
Spicin Foods co-packing services provide your growing business or established brand with a trusted partner to produce their sauce. We provide:
SOURCING
ingredients
materials
ANALYTICAL TESTING
in-house
laboratory
SAUCE CREATION
exact recipe matching
recipe improvement/affordability
cost efficiency
retail food service
PACKAGING
glass and plastic all sizes of bottles and containers:
4oz, 5oz, 8oz, 10oz, 12oz, 16oz, 24oz, 32oz, ½ Gallon, Gallon, 5 Gallon, 55-gallon drums, and 330-Gallon totes
CHANNEL OF TRADE
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SPICIN FOODS CAN MATCH AND PACK YOUR SAUCES EXACTLY THE WAYOURCUSTOMERSWANT!
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PRIVATE LABELING AVAILABLE
Private label refers to Spicin Foods manufacturing a product of its own formulation, and packaging it under the customer’s label. In some cases, Spicin Foods may develop a private label formula exclusively for a customer. In either case, under a private label agreement, Spicin Foods retains ownership of the formula. This can range from creating a new sauce for a customer, to packaging one of our brands with the customers label.
HUNDREDS OF RECIPES AVAILABLE INCLUDING:
Hot Sauces
BBQ Sauces
Wings Sauces
Salsas
CAPABILITES
Non-GMO
Vegan
Gluten Free
All Natural
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INDUSTRIAL ENHANCEMENT
INSTITUTIONAL PACKAGING
Hot-filled sauces and protein enhancers are available for shipping in:
330-gallon Totes (paper or IBC)
275-gallon totes(paper or IBC)
55-gallon Drums/ 5-gallon pails
For use as:
Ingredient for finished food
entrees
Marinades and flavor enhancers
LEADERSHIP TEAM
SCOTT MORSE
OWNER & CEO
Over 40 years of business experience
Successful Industrialist
Strengths in Consumer-Packaged Goods
Industries
Technology Industry Expertise
Strong history in Investment Banking
ANNA MORSE
CFO & CPO
Over 30 years in corporate leadership roles focused on Long Term Business Strategies with focuses in IT, Finance, Investment, Procurement, Logistics, and Supply Chain. Intensive international work experience in Asia, US, China, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and Serbia.
Strong experience in building new factory from green field to product ramp up
MIKE ARMSTRONG
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT EXECUTIVE
Over 38 years in Marketing and Management specifically in the CPG industry.
Skilled in Sales coordination and Project Management
Bachelor in Marketing & Management
Graduate student in Leadership and Communication
Proficient in FMCG
REBECCA
Over 25 years leadership in Human Resources and Operations. A hands-on leader for local, national and global companies. Human Capital management and operations in the USA and more than nine countries worldwide.
Certifications: SPHR, Leadership
Coaching, Facilitation and Behavioral Science.
REESE
VICE PRESIDENT HR
MANAGEMENT TEAM
JIM SWANSON
RETAIL & FIELD SALES
5+ years in Regional Retail Management
Over 20 years of experience managing Distributors
15 years Overseeing Mass Retail Accounts and District Managers executing monthly programs and promotions
Customer first mentality
BOBBIE ALLEGA
SENIOR ACCOUNT MANAGER
Over 17 years experience in the Food & Beverage Industry.
Leadership roles in Culinary Training
Proficient in Inventory & Purchasing
Management
Bachelors Degree in Business
Administration from The University of Missouri Kansas City
MASON DEMERITT
SALES & MARKETING
Bachelor of Science in Business
Administration of Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise with a Minor is Professional Sales from the University of Central Missouri. 5 years in Customer Experience Development
Scouting BSA Eagle Scout
JASON ERIKSON SOURCING & PROCUREMENT
20 Years of Experience in Purchasing
16 Years of Experience in the Food & Packaging Industry
Over 15 Years of Experience in Logistics
FOOD SAFETY • QUALITY
• RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT TEAM
ASSURANCE
FOOD SAFETY
Our Food Safety personnel hold multiple certifications (PCQI, HAACP, etc…) and have a combination of over 30 years of experience in the industry. We staff a Food Scientist and multiple Food Safety Engineers.
Our Food Safety team is responsible for:
Ensuring the quality and consistency of our products
Ensuring safety and maintaining supportive testing of our products and processes
We staff an in-house culinary trained Head Chef along with our Product Development team. These two work together to create flavors that pop, with ingredients that are scalable. Our Head Chef is an expert in flavor matching. With our team we can match flavors with different ingredients. This gives us the ability to create flavors our customers love, while keeping costs down.
PENNY CUTLER
FOOD SAFETY SPECIALIST
Over 20 years of experience in the Food Industry on the Regulatory and Quality side.
Certifications: PCQI & HACCP
Trained in Food Defense and Human Safety.
Bachelor's Degree in Engineering Management with an emphasis in Manufacturing and Packaging and an eMBA.
MATTHEW MONTELLA
FOOD SAFETY SPECIALIST
3 years of QA experience in a manufacturing setting w/ coffee
PCQI certified
HACCP certified
B.S. Biological Engineering (specializing in Food & Biological Processing) from Penn State
OUR BRANDS
DA' BOMB
ASSEENON DA' BOMB
The Hot Sauces and Salsas that everyone loves to hate – it's Da’Bomb! Da’Bomb’s World Famous heat comes in seven flavors of pain:
• Ghost Pepper Salsa – Ghost Pepper Based Salsa… EXTRA Hot
• Green Habanero Salsa – Peruvian Green Habanero
Salsa… EXTRA Hot
• Scorpion Garlic Salsa – Trinidad Scorpion-based salsa, with a robust garlic bite…. EXTRA Hot
• Ghost Pepper Hot Sauce – 22,800 Scoville Units!
• Beyond Insanity Hot Sauce – 135,000 Scoville Units!
• Ground Zero Hot Sauce – 321,900 Scoville Units!
• The Final Answer Hot Sauce – 1.5 Million Scoville Units! Da’Bomb Beyond Insanity has been renowned on the celebrity interview/ hot wings challenge show Hot Ones since its first appearance in the earliest seasons in 2015 on the show. Could you handle the heat?
PAIN IS GOOD
PAIN IS GOOD
OFFICIAL SAUCE OF THE KANSAS CITY CHIEFS
Pain is Good provides Heat and Flavor.
Available in:
• Hot Sauces
• BBQ Sauces
• Wing Sauces
• Bloody Mary Mixes
• Salsas
Micro-batched and loaded with flavor.
AMERICAN STOCKYARD
AMERICAN STOCKYARD
BBQ FROM AROUND THE USA
Sauces that please the tongue no matter where you’re from.
• Kansas City Classic – Nothing is better than Kansas City Style BBQ!
• Original Pitmaster – When you need competition-level BBQ sauce.
• Smoky Mustard – For Carolina-style BBQ lovers
• Harvest Apple – Top award-winning sauce made from delicious apples from the northwest
• Texas Hill Country – For that smoky mesquite flavor only Texas can provide Flavors for anyone, from anywhere!
TRADICIÓN
TRADICIÓN
Delicious Salsas, Taco Sauces, and Jamsthat have the finest all-natural ingredients.
• Salsas made from the finest all-natural ingredients, listed on the front of the label
• Roja and Verde Taco Sauces are a step up from your everyday Taco Sauces
• Raspberry Jalapeño and Blackberry
Chipotle jams provide a subtle heat that makes these jams special Serve these to the people you care most about.
KETTLEWOOD
KETTLEWOOD
We’ve reimagined the original smoky flavors of the country’s finest woodsmoked barbecue with our award-winning Kettlewood Combustion Co. line of barbecue sauces.
• Cherry Wood Smoke & Chocolate – Soft Cherrywood smoke flavor with subtle notes of chocolate
• Oak Wood Smoke & Caramel – Bold and classic Oakwood smoke flavor with the rich and sweet taste of caramel
• Pecan Wood Bourbon Vanilla – Made with bourbon vanilla from Madagascar, used to win the Gold Medal in the 2017 SOFI Awards
The non-traditional and premium BBQ Sauces for the gourmet palate.
SIGNATURE SERIES
SIGNATURE SERIES
Delicious specialty sauces for the sauce connoisseur.
• Creamy Garlic Parmesan Sauce – Used for Pasta, Pizza, and Wings
• Truffle Ketchup – Robust truffle flavor in a classic ketchup
Peri Peri Sauce – South African Peri
Peri pepper sauce perfect with chicken
Once you try them, you’ll understand why we put our name on them!