Center for Culinary Development & Innovation (CCDI)

The Center for Culinary Development & Innovation (CCDI) creates distinctive, culinary-inspired offerings that drive product innovation and fuel topline revenue growth for a broad range of leading companies, including packaged goods, restaurants and the food service industry. Our Food Vision® process identifies leverageable trends, market insights, and culinary-inspired innovation that unlock high-potential opportunity areas, identifying where to play and right to win spaces. As a result, winning products are built here, and horizons-based new product roadmaps are curated to exceed your expectations. CCDI is the culinary-inspired innovation division within JPG Resources, a network of founders, R&D experts, and brand builders that has one mission grounded in reality – to make your ideas viable, scalable, and profitable. CCDI’s SERVICES: Trends & Industry Insights – Landscape Analysis: Market research to understand evolving consumer behaviors, retail landscape, category and product deep dives, trend immersions, and food industry marketplace analysis to uncover whitespace opportunities. Culinary-Led Inspiration – Opportunities & Ideation: Development of product concepts through ideation sessions to create products that are distinct, culinary-inspired and vetted by Chefs’ Council® industry professionals. Portfolio Planning – Innovation Roadmap Development: Creation of product-specific concepts and horizons-based portfolio pipeline planning just right for your brand, from inspiration and concept development through to recipe formulations, consumer validations and product prototypes. Commercialization Consulting – Putting it Altogether: Expert guidance from brand strategy and product portfolio development to market entry strategy, technical feasibility, R&D leadership, and co-manufacturing assessment.