R&D CONSULTING
Innovation Agency food and beverage
We are the specialist partner in food and beverage innovation that helps you identify opportunities and generate surprising and relevant concepts for your business, and create an innovation roadmap with executive capabilities to achieve your goals.





















Innovation Services
Food Republik is a Food and Beverage Innovation agency in Barcelona. We are experts in the entire innovation process that we co-create with each client through our own methodology to respond to business challenges. We create products with added value and measurable results.
Food Scouting
opportunities
We explore the most relevant international food fairs. We identify opportunities for your business, trends, ingredients, technologies, co-packers and success stories.
Consumer
Insights
We help you understand in depth what your consumer thinks, feels, needs and wants. We identify winning concepts and validate their potential for success.
Innovation strategy
We define a funnel of innovation with your portfolio of products identifying levers of growth and options of brand stretch in other categories.
Conceptualization
and design
We propose innovative concepts and apply the keys to success of other winning products. We are experts in branding, package design and communication.
Formulation
and prototypes
We develop the formulation and customized production process with co-packers, create laboratory prototypes and manage industrial scale-up.
Go-to-market
and Launch
We prepare a strategic digital marketing plan and activations to drive successful launches. We establish contact with retailers and distributors.
Innovation Agency
in Spain
Food Republik is a strong collaborative network of food professionals with extensive experience in the sector. We have one foot in the world of large organizations and the other in the world of startups. We provide you with information, methodology and our network of talent to make your projects a success.
Malwine Steinbock
CEO & Founding Partner.
Director of Strategy and Food Scout®
I help my clients move innovation projects forward with inspiration, method and execution. Too many times good projects get stranded in the vortex of the day to day.
Let's make things happen.
Victor Fortunado
Founding Partner
Creative Director
I am in charge of leading innovation projects. I work with co-creation processes between the company, our market knowledge and the consumer. We unite talent and put the gears in place so that innovation reaches a successful conclusion.
Want to see what we are capable of?
We assemble an A-team for your project.
María José Pinar
Specialist in Food Safety and 4.0 Technologies & Disseminator
Elena Brustenga
Director Synergic Strategic Research & Consultancy
Laura Arranz
Doctor in Nutrition and Legal Advisor
Marta Gonzalez
CEO & Founder Sigma Biotech I+D+i Alimentaria.
Olga Díez
CEO at The Onion Inside, expert on Gen Alpha & Gen Z
Laia Grassi
Generative AI Advertising Creative Director
Dani Muñoz
B-Bruce CEO & Founder Strategic Branding
Julie Asschenfeld
ae* Founder Packaging and Innovation
Mercedes Marquez
Avellana Studio Founder Creative Director
Mirco Dal Cin
Food Technologist and disseminator
Beatriz Romanos
Investor / Foodtech & Innovation
Alfonso Pretelin
Business Development Mexico and Latam
Juan Umbert
CEO & Co-Founder Makeat Barcelona
Sergi Ferrer
Pastry chef. Researcher and technical consultant
Juan Ramón Marín
Co-Founder at Ongoing Marketing & Digital Strategy
Working with Food Republik
Food Expertise
We create the A-team for your project with experts in F&B - strategy, creative direction, design, nutritionists, chefs, technologists and digital marketing focused on results.
Best Practices
We apply lessons learned from international success stories to your business, with keys adapted to your brand values and a value proposition focused on your market.
We solve challenges
We start with an audit of your product portfolio, industrial capacity and strategic objectives and offer you a roadmap and an expert team for execution.
Partnership
In our collaboration formula, we incorporate a successful part in projects where we contribute know-how, industrial and executive capacity.
We are the partner that puts focus, method and speed to bring your innovations to success.
As a food and beverage innovation agency, we have extensive experience working with companies of all sizes: Corporates, Startups, Clusters, VC's and Technology Centers. We offer conferences and events and drive the transformation of the sector.
What our customers say:
"Committed agency, with strategic vision, creative and excellent execution."
Danone Corporate
"A partner in the new brand positioning and portfolio that provided us with key professionals in R&D development."
Obrador Sorribas
"They know the market, understand you
and provide value from the first meeting."
Sanygran
"To launch an excellent product you need excellent professionals
to accompany you in the process."
A tu Gusto
THINK GLOBAL; ACT LOCAL
We attend major industry trade shows and events to get first-hand information on how trends are emerging and new ingredients and technologies are being applied, and turn it into strategic reports and opportunity analyses that give you a competitive edge.
Your innovation radar.