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Where is your marketing yield leaking?
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PROJECT: DIGITAL_FORGE // SCAN_ID: APEX_META_1
PROJECT: DIGITAL_FORGE   SCAN_ID: APEX_META_1

Your marketing
strategy is solid.
Is it landing
on the floor?

The way to behaviour change.
From strategy to sales adoption.
On the floor. Where it counts.

Kitchen floor
yield /jiːld/
noun  /  food industry context

Yield is the extra revenue, margin or profit that remains when the campaign ends and the kitchen floor tells the truth.

On the floor
Most food companies
have marketing activity.
Few have yield.
Strategy without execution is theory.
Execution without yield is a hobby.
Sound familiar?
Strong campaigns.
And then... nothing.
Kitchen floor
01 // BRAND

Your brand isn't structurally on the menu or in the kitchen.

02 // SHARE

Share of menu isn't growing, despite your investment.

03 // CAMPAIGNS

Your campaigns don't land on the kitchen floor.

04 // SALES

Does your team know what to sell and do the results prove it?

Apex is the food agency that connects marketing strategy to sales. On the kitchen floor, where yield is made.
Three layers of growth

Strategy. Execution.
Yield.

Strategy without execution is theory. Execution without yield is a hobby. We connect all three.

01 // STRATEGY
Strategy
Where and how your brand wins

Your brand needs a position that earns a place on the menu, not just in the meeting room. We build that position and translate it into commercial propositions that move money.

02 // EXECUTION
Execution
Plans that actually move behaviour

We ensure that plans lead to sales and adoption on the floor. Campaign frameworks, content calendars, events, branding and targeted sales lists for FMCG and Horeca.

03 // ASSETS
Activation via Communities
Your brand where decisions are made

Share your brand in strong communities that put your brand directly on the floor, not just in the brief. CuliQuiz, New Chefs, Gault&Millau and 24H Chefs.

Communities

Four platforms.
One floor.

CuliQuiz
Microlearning
CuliQuiz
  • Gamified microlearning (1-5 min) deployed directly on the work floor and at horeca schools
  • Adaptive learning and real life scenarios
  • Brand campaigns delivered straight to the horeca professional and students
24H Chefs
Culinary Event
24H Chefs
  • Position yourself between high-end consumers and top chefs
  • The most unique culinary event with significant national media attention
  • Support charitable causes and help make the world a little more beautiful
New Chefs
Next Gen
New Chefs
  • Reaches the next generation of decision-makers
  • Builds brand preference early in culinary careers
  • Drives community and network growth
Gault&Millau
Premium
Gault&Millau
  • Delivers unassailable credibility and premium visibility
  • A stage for brands that add real value to gastronomy
  • Direct linkage to the absolute top of the market
The Strategy Scan

Where is your
yield leaking?

We map out where your marketing investment is leaking. No pitch. Just honest insight, directly actionable.

Plan a Strategy Scan
Strategy
Is there direction or just noise?
  • Your value proposition Does it move money or just heads?
  • Goals linked to revenue Or they're not.
Translation
Does your strategy survive contact with reality?
  • One message. Every channel. Is it landing?
  • A 12-month roadmap Or a wish list?
Reality
What actually happens on the floor?
  • Leads don't follow up themselves.
  • Campaigns have an expiry date.
Impact
What does €1 of marketing yield?
  • Do you know your CPA per channel?
  • Active is not the same as profitable.
  • Is Share of Menu growing or just on slides?
WHO WE ARE

We know the floor.
From within.

We know hospitality. All of us. In our own way. From wholesale to brand. From community to floor. We know the industry. Not from the outside, but from within. We speak the language. Together we bring knowledge, network and execution power. Hands-on. Focused on one thing: Impact you can measure. On the floor where it counts.

Marco van Davenhorst
Marco van Davenhorst
Journalist / Community Builder

Journalist, founder of New Chefs and community builder with 15 years of culinary media experience. Translates brand stories into content and communities that truly reach the next generation of chefs.

+31 6 20 64 50 44
marco@apex-agency.nl
Tjitze van der Dam
Tjitze van der Dam
Founder CuliQuiz & Gault&Millau NL

Has spent years building concepts that structurally anchor brands on the work floor. He understands how knowledge, craftsmanship and brand activation come together where it counts.

+31 6 10 36 70 82
tjitze@apex-agency.nl
Laurens Claassens
Laurens Claassens
Foodservice Marketeer

Foodservice marketeer (Bidfood, V2C Gin, FatOncles). From strategy to execution. Spots opportunities, seizes them and makes them commercially work. Hands-on, creative and direct.

+31 6 53 33 43 71
laurens@apex-agency.nl